PROHIBITION: Drys on Privacy

To still the Wet cry of “sumptuary legislation,” a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald:

“We specifically repudiate all enforcement policies that do not regard and safeguard every personal right. . . . Personal habits and the conduct of the home are in the field of private morals. These should not be touched by the hand of the law unless they cross their boundaries and then only by due process of law. . . . The primary attack is on the traffic of intoxicating liquors.”