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*ROUND AND 'ROUND IT GOESTHE general assembly is again m a hitch and a snarl over the eternal question of prohibition. Blithely a lot of people and legislators hailed the shadow, but they do not seem to want the substance and 1 hereby ponies the rub.As is a pail or joyful fad. as you. look at it, the state voted for prohibition r;uI then the nimbly passed u measure of en-foriTmenl. This, as is a legally and constitutionally established feel, was swat led unto death the first tirua the voters got at it, though V the 6mc instrument, 1 lie ballot, they again recorded ihcy still stood for prohibition. This put the matter back where it stood and the legislature entered upon the sensible and timely effort of providing i'or a degree of enforcement.Neither brilliant nor inspiring progress has been made. Concede as they might on the diseaiclcd Crabbe net they were unable to snninmn .sufficient nuinhcr of followers to attach an emergency danse and*without one Ohio, of herself, can take no steps to ruing about a dry spell before Ihe elapse of ninety days, andhere arc both the wets ami dry8 threatening to bring on new r.'trr»dnm to vox and plague tlie voters, rniq side on national prohibition and the -other to repeal state prohibition and any en-lurreineut provision, having an emergency clause. Cut the pc?o-• pic me already annoyed mid disgusted with all this ‘wrangling. Neither side see ms to be gaining anything by it.The legislators ought to quit and put thair horse sense to work, if they have got any. Prohibition is Ihe established law of the lr.il. it is gofiig to continue to lie for an indefinite period and the proper machinery should ho provided to test it out. We know o£ nothing that'would ao quickly cause its repeal a_s as ikmonstra-;imi i1i:it it'ftiii not lift made effective and if it offers no betterment of those condition a that led to its adoption.
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 17, 1920
Page 9
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Megan C.
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