The Key West Citizen

BEER AND REPEAL
Press dispatches from Washington,
printed in The Citizen during the past
week, have intimated that the modification
of the Volstead Act permitting the legal
brewing of beer of a higher alcoholic percentage
may find an opposition in members
of the senate who favor absolute repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment.
One of the suggestions is that the sale
of beer may result in occurrences which
may adversely affect the chances of ultimate
repeal.
There is little merit in this contention,
for if the legalization of beer results
in situations antagonistic to the prospects
of repeal, the country will neither desire
the repeal of the amendment, nor will it
be advisable.
The chances are that the experience
of the country with legalized beer will
show the wisdom of repeal.
Those who put forth the suggestion
that legalizing beer will hurt the chances
of repeal are not entirely honest or unselfish.
They are the advocates of the inclusion of wine
in the modification legislation.
They are not wise in taking this
stand, as there seems little doubt that any
modification of the Volstead Act that
might legalize high alcoholic percentage in
wine would meet with the disapproval of
the courts. The only hope of the wine advocates
lies in repeal.
The greatest hope of speedy ratification
of any repeal resolution by the states
lies in the experience of the country with a
popular beer.