“‘Bone Dry’ National Prohibition should be the first enactment for national defens
“‘Bone Dry’ National Prohibition should be the first enactment for national defense and for the conserving of food.” Letter from Harry H. Willock, 4/21/1917.File Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary during the 65th Congress, 1917 - 1919Series: Petitions and Memorials, 1813 - 1968Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015Transcription: Apr. 21, 1917.Hon. Guy Campbell,House Office Bldg.,Washington, D.C.Dear Sir:-“Bone Dry” National Prohibition should be the first enactment for national defense and for the conserving of food.People are rather out of patience with demands for conscription and other extreme military measures when their very reasonable demand for National Prohibition is ignored.With flour at $14.00 per barrel, the country has no grain to waste in the manufacture of booze.If congress would give the country National Prohibition and Woman Suffrage and decide on an absolute “No Profit” and “Pay As You Go” policy for the prosecution of this war, the general public would be even enthusiastic over conscription.In the absence of any real progressive measures, it is naturally difficult for them to “see” conscription.Conscript the peaks of the fortunes and the conscription of men will be received joyfully.Yours very truly,Harry H. Willock.HHW-K-839. -- source link
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