The literary digest . what do they amount to in the eyes of a remoteofficial at Washington? Furthermore, pull and local popu-larity count for little with a Federal judge or a Federal jury. The prohibition amendment, according to the writer of anAssociated Press dispatch, wiU wipe out with a stroke 236 dis-tilleries, 992 breweries, and more than 300,000 saloons and liquorstores. The United States treasury will lose a source of taxationworth many million dollars, and State treasuries will also losetheir millions. On the other hand, the liquor question will beremoved from politics, and the expens
The literary digest . what do they amount to in the eyes of a remoteofficial at Washington? Furthermore, pull and local popu-larity count for little with a Federal judge or a Federal jury. The prohibition amendment, according to the writer of anAssociated Press dispatch, wiU wipe out with a stroke 236 dis-tilleries, 992 breweries, and more than 300,000 saloons and liquorstores. The United States treasury will lose a source of taxationworth many million dollars, and State treasuries will also losetheir millions. On the other hand, the liquor question will beremoved from politics, and the expenses of goverument will becut down by the decrease in violations of law. 12 The Literary Digest for January 25, 1919 TO FIGHT BOLSHEVISM WITH FOOD (i B RIBING BOLSHEVISTS TO BE GOOD seems adoubtful policy to some of our editorial observers,who wonder, with the New York Herald, whetherbullets would not be more effective than bread against thespread of Bolshevism. American opinion is not likely to ^•e:i:^tc:::w^::^z::^y. CWP-AJ TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. —Chapin in the St. Republic. favor buying off anarchy with subsidies of meat and grain,thinks the New York Evening Sun, while the JacksonvilleFlorida Times-Union suggests that while starvation may breedBolshevism, it may also kill it—a suggestion which gains someweight from a recent dispatch reporting symptoms of a nationalrevolt in Russia against the present Bolshevik rulers, whosecontrol of the food-supplies has not saved the populace fromstarvation conditions. In Petrograd, we are told, nearly athousand persons are dying daily from Stockholm dispatch published in the New York Hun tells ofhunger riots in Petrograd, and of Bolshevik troops firing upon aprocession of ten thousand persons who paraded the streetsshouting for bread. In the main, however, we find our papers cordially indorsingPresident Wilsons plea for what the New York Tribune calls afood-barrage against thi; spread of Bolshevism. Mr. H
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