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    "title": "Letter from John E. Ayer, M. V., to the Crime and Law Enforcement Commission Citing the Automobile as Increasing Crime and Liquor Trafficking",
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    "ocrText": "and\n10\nthe\n2d\nare almost wholly responsible Without the present liquor laws,\nthe conditions would certainly be vastly worse than at present.\nThe great mass of the people, the farmers, mechanics and the labor\nranks are far nore sober and law abiding than they were before\nthe Prohibition Amendment; and as those classeswil furnish prac-\ntically all of the parentage of the future, their interest is the\nonly one entitled to consideration.\nThe checking of the crime wave is not merely a moral, or good\ncitizenship issue. It is quite as much a matter of self preserva-\ntion. The ominous increase of the deadly forces of electricity\nand gasoline in all industries and locomotion, and the well known\nfact that any drinking of alcohol affects the sight, caution and\njudgment in the brain,has made it imperative that all liquor\ndrinking must be suppressed;no matter how much it may conflict\nwith self indulgence or' 'personal liberty'. It cannot be dodged by\nany such absurd farce as a certain portion of the Press is now\nexhibiting with its mass of letters. There is no line of practi-\ncable compromise. A beer and wine compromise would demoralize the\nwhole country and negative all enforcemente It cannot be shirked\nby loading the responsibility on public officials. They can go\nbut little further than juries will back them with unanimous\nvotes. There must be a strong general backing of the efforts of\nthe President, - the first President who has ever shown a positive\npurpose and ability to deal with the worst evils of society-by\nthe daily volunteer propaganda work of all decent citizens.\nJohn E. AYER, Mo V.\n420 Haight Bldge Seattle, Wnd\nmay 23-24"
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