Mr. Ellison Lothrop, Vice-Pres. Washington Co.. “Better Citizenship”
League,
MY DEAR MR. LOTHROP:
You have requested that I give to the Washington County Better
Citizenship League, of which you are an active vice-president, some
expression of my views upon the question of Prohibition.
Sir, can there be any doubt as to the belief of every right thinking
American citizen in this matter? The Eighteenth Amendment is here and
here, thank God, to stay! The great benefit which Prohibition has
done to the poor and the working classes is reason enough for its
continued existence. It is for the manufacturers, the professional
class, the capitalists to give up gladly whatever small pleasure they
may have derived from the use of alcohol, in order that John Jones,
workingman, may have money in the bank and a happy home, instead of
his Saturday night debauch. In every democracy the few sacrifice for
the many—“the greatest good of the greatest number” is the slogan.
And I, for one, am proud to have been a member of that legislative
body which passed so truly God-bidden and democratic an act as the
Eighteenth Amendment.
I beg to remain, with best wishes to your great organization,
Sincerely yours, WALTER G. TOWNSLEY.