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said he is a "teetotaler," and that he was not con SENATE C0~1MITTEE TRYS TO KILL BILL vinced that the penalties under the Dean act are AN ERROR OUR DRY ·LEADERS MAKE too severe. No man in Congress from Texas has been truer to TO REPEAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW OBJECTIONS TO THE BILL the cause of prohibition than Hon. Thomas L. l3lan We quote the following from the Dallas News, of This proposition is brought up by the wets at ton, and of none of whom we are more fond. When February 27: every session of the Legislature. The fact. that Mr. the question of adding $24,000,000 to the appropria "The much-debated Search and Seizure bill, per Albritton from Yorktown should sponsor it does not tion for enforcement of the dry laws was before mitting search warrants on information and belief indicate that it is in the interest of prohibition. the House, we wired each member from Texas, alone, as it passed the House, was given a unani The bill provides for increasing penalties for · kindly asking their support. Most of them prompt mous adverse report on Wednesday, by the Senate second and third offenses. The trouble with such· ly replied assuring us of their hearty support. Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, and, unless provisions lies in the fact that experience shows Among them was one from Mr. Blanton. Since he some of the absent committeemen bring in a minor that where such provisions are written into a law, heartily stated his support, and since he added a ity report, the measure is dead." Senator Love and the higher penalties are not invoked, though the suggestion intended for the benefit of our pastors others are endeavoring to find an absent commit bootlegger continues his trade. This is clearly who could not support Al Smith, we quote his tele tee man who will ·bring in a ·minority report, but shown in the records of the Federal Courts. After gram in full. We trust we violate no confidence in this action of the committee makes it far more diffi eight years of practically continuous operation of doing so. We are always very careful at this point. cult ever to pass it. hundreds of bootleggers, comparatively few have The point his telegram raises is one common to all This bill has been held in Senate committee ever been given these higher penalties provided by the who support the nominee. Hence we think it jus since February 8, so the newspapers report, and it Volstead act. tifiable to reproduce. The telegram is as follows: was upon a motion by Senator Love to compel the Again, such provisions written into the law com "Replying your telegram. Republicans, under or committee to make a report on it that Senator plicates the procedure very greatly, and most of our ders from the Administration1 prevented House yes Eugene Miller is reported to have read a part or the prosecuting attorneys, especially in smaller coun terday from voting on Harris Amendment and they · whole editorial in the February issue of the HoME ties, are inexperienced and would get frequent er adjou-rned when they thought House might instruct AND STATE, relating to an entirely different rors into the form of the indictment and the search conferees to adopt amendment. Republicans are bill, and made it apply to this bill. Senator Miller warrant furnish more technicalities probably than now arranging special rule to send matter to con is chairman of the committee, and threatened to all else upon which .cases are reversed. ference where it is to be killed. Democrats are resign if the Senate .insisted on Love's resolution. The plea that juries will not convict when the practically soliq. for amendment to provide :..reces Readers will see that the committee appointed by penalties are so severe, has been demonstrated un sary funds requested by enforcement officials to en Lie-:J.tenant Governor Barry Miller made an earnest true for twenty years. which is the time this has force prohibition laws. Now, you and others of our effort and doubtless succeeded in killing the bill. been the penalty in Texas. The exceptions are to good ministers who justly rebuked liquorites in last This committee was comprised of the following: be found in 'cities where certain lawyers and officers Texas election may now understand why we Texas Eug"'ne Miller of Parker county, chairman; E. E. have conducted a campaign to this end. Attorneys Congressmen who know conditions here could not Witt of Waco, vice chairman; Oliver Cunningham of for bootleggers are continually giving interviews to support Hoover and Republicans." Abilene, W. S. Gainer of Brazos c5unty.; Julian reporters to the effect that the law is unjust because In the last sentence Mr. Blanton falls into the er Eyer of Fort Worth; J. W. Hornsby of Austin; W. M. the bootleggers can get off easier in the Federal ror common to party leaders. He assumes that in Martin of Hillsboro; Archie Parr of Duvall county; court, and that the juries should not convict. Oc voting for Hoover, we were voting for the whole Re Natt Patton of Houston county; W. E. Thomason of casionally a judge, who has sworn to uphold the publican ticket. In this he and they are in error. Nacogdoches, and A. J. Wirtz of Seguin. law, forgets his oath, and delivers a charge to the The Texas Democrats who voted for Hoover, simply · Ow.;.,;:eaders should note that not all of this com ~rand jury. saying, "You must. investigate the viola voted for Hoover, the man, not for Hoover, th~ Re mittee are wets, and note also the fact tha.t some tions of the Dean act, and indict the violators. We publkaH; and they refused t.o v0~c 'ior Ai Smith tn0 were absent when the above action was taken. all know that juries won't convict those you in man, but are just as good Democrats (we think bet It was concerning this committee that the HoME· dict, because the penalties are too severe, but you ter), as are those who voted for Al Smith. AND STATE in the last issue made the following re must do your duty., We did not "support Hoover and Republicans" but mark: "'Two years ago Lieutenant Governor Barry The reporter clothes, this language attractively, we simply supported Hoover. We believe they would Miller appointed enough members of the commit maybe getting some attorneys for bootleggers to have shown themselves to· be better Democrats had tee on Criminal Jurisprudence and on Civil Juris back up the judge's statement. The papers give it they "supported Hoover" and left alone those Re- . prudence, to insure that no bill relating to the a prominent place where prospective jurymen will publicans who now attempt to block prohibition en liquor question would be favorably reported, or if not fail to read it. So. when the jury is selected, forcement. yYe believed in Hooverr the man, not in possible, reported at all, to the Senate. He seems to the case is already practically won by the statement the Republican party. If the Republican party now be equally successful this year, judging from the from the judge and the bootleggers' lawyers. This disappoints us on prohibition, it is not apropos the personnel on the Criminal Jurisprudence Commit is both easier and surer, than to lay the evidence situation. If Hoover disappoints us, he will hear tee. It has most of the old-line wets stacked up on before an impartial jury, leaving it up to them to do from us in language he can understand. it." their duty. In the meantime, let the Republicans ·understand THE PEOPLE \VARNED that the Democrats will be right after them when TEXAS LA VI NO EXCEPTION ever they try to sidestep the honest enforcement of HoME AND STATE warned the people last year con The general impression prevails that the penalties the dry laws,_and the HoME AND STATE expects to say, cerning the importance of electing a dry Lieutenant under the Texas laws are exceptionally excessive. It "Lay on, McDuff!" as they press the attacks. The Governor, but they elected a dripping wet. We is not true. The whole tendency is to make the Republicans had better get their minds straight. quote from the July issue of the HoME AND STATE as penalty heavier in all the states, and most of them The vote for Hoover was a dry vote, and they will follows: are up with the Texas law and some ahead. We are demand the enforcement of the dry laws, and .will "But few realize the importane of the office of endeavoring to get heavier penalties in the Volstead not take "no" for an answer. Lieutenant Governor. As it relates to the legislative act. work, the Lieutenant Governor's office is more im The fine as a penalty does not enforce the law. A portant than the Governor's office. He is the pre few little bootleggers may be put out of business siding officer of the Senate. He appoints all the bu,t the big bootleggers will gladly pay the fine as ~ committees of the Senate. The committee on license to continue, and charge the fine up in in MENCKEN AND WEBB criminal jurisprudence, the committee on civil creased prices to his patrons. Bootlegging rings can (From the Statesman, Austin., Texas) jurisprudence, and the finance committee are all easily have a fund for such· purposes. The whole Henry L. Mencken, of all persons in the world, important, for any legislation relating to the en-· saler can pay the bootlegger's fine on condition he wouldn't appreciate being likened unto the Rev forcement of our prohibition laws. buys from him. But they all dread the penitentiary. Atticus Webb, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon "Lieutenant Governor Barry Miller at the last LATER: Since writing the above Congress has League in Texas. session stacked the committees with enemies of the raised the penalty of the Volstead law to a maxi But we've talked to Mencken and Wednesday prohibition laws so that they were practically able mum of $10,000 plus a maximum of 5 years in the night we heard Webb give an address at a local to condemn by adverse report and to kill any legis penitentiary. vVe hope this will -lay forever the fever church, and the conclusion is that they have a lation offered before the Senate." engendered every two years to lower the penalty number of similar mannerisms. under the Dean act. Mencken doesn't get excited when he talks. He We hope also that our Federal judges will take says bizarre and astounding things quietly and un MODIFYING DEAN ACT cognizance of this Act of Congress and pile on the pretentiously, yet when they are printed they are additional penalties. Heretofore some Federal literally taken as thunder and lightning by the Representative Albritton, · a leading wet from judges have assessed an average of about 10 per reading public. Yorktown, one of the wettest sections of Texas, has cent of what the law allowed. Attic us Webb is the same way. He romped on the introduced a bill to lower the penalties on boot preachers, he romped on the state officials on Al legging "making them conform to those of the Vol Smith, and on ~verybody who is wet or listle;sly dry,· stead act." THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE but not once d1d he thunder or perspire. He spoke Representative 0. F. Chastain, of Eastland, is re «near Brother Webb: I write to thank you per quietly, and didn't lose his temper about anything- ported in the press as saying that he was "almost a sonally and also your great organization for the not even Al Smith. · teetotaler/' and that 'we have been drinking and part taken in our recent national drama, and want . selling whisky for 2.000 years, and it is not· a crime to go on record as saying that but for the work of m cl we ~hould not seel{ to make anything but ~ . It is. unt~inkable for an i~~ividual to sell beverage the Anti-Saloon League we could not have gained liquor m th1s country for a hvmg, but it is even more rnisdeme~nor out of mcst violations." the victory. unthinkable for the whole country to be responsible for Representative J. B. Snelgrove, of Rusk County. (REV.) S. B. Cox." such sales as were made under the license law. (. I' • DRY CONGRESS IN POLAND FINED FOR MALT SALES HOvV TO CLOSE BEER STANDARD· FOR BOYS National Chain Grocery Stores Adopts Resolutions Proposing AC. THE FORD PLANTS IN MONTREAL COLLEGE vance Steps in Temperance "If the law were changed, we'd Fined $500 Each for Malt Sales have to shut down our plants. in Kentucky Reforms Everything in the United States. is Beer Drinking Contests Put i11 keyed up to a new pace wh1ch Realm of Sports; a Record of 14 Resolutions adopted by the eighth anti Seventy-t\vo defendants representing started with prohibition. The Quarts Drunk in 6 Hours three chain grocery concerns and a num alcohol reform congress of Poland meet speed at which we run our motor ber of individual dealers pleaded guilty ing in Warsaw recently included: cars, . operate our intricate ma by Boy through their attorneys in the January 1. To demand from the government the chinery, and generally live, would term of the Federal court of Lexington, entire 1 per cent on the revenue obtained be impossible with liquor. No, there Kentucky, to charges of violating the pro from the spirit monopoly for the purpose is no chance even of modification." Perhaps the most insistent claim of the hibition act. The specific charge was dis of fightfn:J alcoholism. MR. HENRY FoRD in an interview at wets which is now heard is that govern pensing hop-flavored malt syrup. Judge 2. The prohibition of the sale of al Sudbury, Mass., August, 1928. ment control of liquor as prevails in Ca A. M. J. Cochran on recommendation of cohol in small bottles designed for the nadian provinces is a sure remedy for -the United· States District Attorney S. A. easier sale of drink. bootlegging, drunkenness, and an abso Smith fined each of the three chain gro 3. To encourage the -opening of con lute protection of youth from the alco cery concerns $500 each and assessed in sulting rooms for those suffering from ADDI TS IJECREASE FOURTH · holic habit. They therefore urge the addition a fine of $25 each against the excessive drinking; the opening of parish adoption of this plan by the United halls and night refuges. States. individuals arrested by Federal prohibi Liquor Patients Admitted to Wash tion agen•s for actually making the sales 4. To urge the prohibition of the sale AMERICAN ISSUE frequently publishes .in the stores. of spirits on wage paying days in Silesia. ingtonian Home, Boston, De authentic press reports which disprove 5. To advise the prohibition of selling this theory of the wets. · These reports So complete was the surrender of the crease One-Fourth in 1928 malt dispensers, that their attorneys drink on credit. often refer to the large amount of boot stated in open court, that they had agreed legging that is being carried on in Ca to take the malt syrup from their stock A decrease of more than a fourth in the nadian provinces, cites instances of over and would ship no more of the .substance DRY LEADER OF ENGLAND DIES number of persons admitted for treat crowded courts with drunkenness cases into this Federal judicial district, "until ment for the liquor habit was the experi and quotes prominent men and . women ence of the Washingtonian Home in Bos · who were formerly for this plan but are the court decides, if one ever does so de Mr. John Turner Rae, General S~c cide that the sale of malt syrup is legal." ton during 1928 for the first time since now convinced that it is a failure. In 'making his recommendations Mr. retary National Temperance the' year immediately following national Now comes the dispatch from Montreal, prohibition, according to the annual re Canada, to the Cleveland Plain Dealer Smith quoJcd from section thirty, title League, Is Summoned twenty-seven of the United States code port made by . Dr. Hugh B. Gray, super which shows how the famous Quebec sys which states, "it shall be unlawful t
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He declares: "Not slnce the months of CANADIAN ANTI-PROHIBITION EDITOR SAYS THAT January and February, 1926, has the gov SUPPORTS HARRIS Ar.iEN3Th1ENT ernment seen fit to employ any men to check up on wholesalers' sales. So that Congress Has Had Clear Mandate' BRITISH COLUMBIA CONTROL SYSTEM AF AlLURE for two years past, there has not been one single obstacle put in the way of the From People for Better En Liquor Makers Conspire With Legislators, Contribute to Campaign Funds wholesaler who might wish to sell a bot- forcement of Law • tle or a truckload of whisky for con and Are Granted Special Concessions; Bootlegging Thrives sumption in Vancouver, in spite of the fact that the only ground on which a (EuGENE L. CRAWFORD, General Se.crelaryj By J. H. LARIMORE license can be granted to such wholesaler Board of Temperance and Social Serv ice M. E. Church, South) Testimony as to how well the so-called lief of those who are best able to form an is that the liquor he keeps in his ware (>pinion." house is for export purposes only." .Just before sailing for the Holy Land, liquor control system in Canada does not B1shop James Cannon, Jr., Chairman of 1 work often has been given oy the friends Mr. Marshall declares that somebody in Spuriously a g e d a1;1d unwholesome the Board of Temperance and So~ial of prohibition, who, of course, were the province is making enormous money whisky floods the market; the liquor law is violated every day by the wholesalers; Service of t h e ~Methodist Episcopal , promptly set down as biased and prej u every year "out of this brewing business, Church, South, sent the followinz tele diced, whenever their testimony was read and the trouble is that the enormous the export liquor houses are "wholesale gram to the press: or heard by foes of pronibltion. Now, profit is being made out of those who can bootleggers;" higher-ups are protected; when such testimQny comes from one there is an established connection be "I would emphasize the act of the Col- ! least afford it, namely, the working man." lege of Bishops of the Methodist Epis- , / who does not believe in prohibition, and "We know, as who does not who has fol tween the wholesalers and the retail that testimony agrees with the testimony bootleggers-these are some of the things copal Church, South, taken at Meinphis. lowed the game of politics as it' is played January 2, calling upon Congress to pro of -the drys, it would seem that all per in Canada, that the brewers and ..'the charged by Mr. Marshall. Specific instances are given, and facts vide what men and money may be nec;;s sons should believe the U.tuted testimony. liquor interests generally have made huge sary to develop and put into effect an E. M. Marshall, Managing Editor of contribuitons to the party funds." cited to uphold the editor's contention adequate program of Prohibition Law En The Owl, a weekly magazine published in Bootleg liquor is obtainable, The Owl that things are radically wrong, and he forcement. This means exactly wha.t it , Vancouver, B. C., is not a prohibitionist. articles say, and the cases of arrests of insists that the liquor act be revamped. Indeed, he is regarded, rather, as a illegal vendors are cited. Mr. Marshall One regrets that there is · not space ~ays-whatever amount is necessary, even enough for one to go into further details. 1f it be $100,000,000." strong moderationist, but he recognizes hints at connivance with these bootleg The position which our Board has the breaking down of the so.-called gov gers by provinci~d officials and the liquor But here is the viewpoint of a Canadian maintain~d heretofore, and which recent ernment control system and the corrup interests. editor, who is not a prohibitionist. developments have in no wise chanzed, is tion of legislators through the close part that, in the last election, Cone:res.:> was nership with the liquor interests involved given a mandate to make Proluoir:on Law in the present system. E~orcement the outstanding issne, and Mr. Marshall devotes the first and sec WET NEWFOUNDLAND NEWSPAPER SEES THE LIGHT th1s because of the great and recognized ond pages of three recent issues of The 11eed. Owl, to a full discussion of the subject, :rv'Iost Active Supporter of Government Control System Admits It Is Not Yet we read in the Washington Star o! ' each of his three articles bearing the the 13th instant: •:In asking for appro same page-wide caption, "Is B. C. Domi Effective in Reducing Drunkenness; Asks for Suggestions for priations for the agencies involved in mo nated by the Liquor Ring?" Best \Vay to Remedy Liquor Abuses · hibition enforcement, the Treasury -this His opening paragraph is as follows: · year cut the amounts so as to bring them "A survey of the liquor situation in this near the sums allotted by Congress last _ Province, more particularly as it relates A correspondent writing under a St. hibition law, put out or business. year." to the larger centers of population such John's Newfoundland, date line of Febru As you know I am not one of them, and The occasion for the \Vritin6 of that as Vancouver and Victoria, will convince ary 7, forwards clippings from local news I can safely say that of the men I am statement was the suggestion which had any person who approaches the question. papers which reveal the utter failure of going to name I know only one. _all the been made that the $24,000,000 additioual with an open mind, that there is some the government c o n t r o 1 system of others are entire strangers to me. These appropriation which the Senate voted £or thing very radicaily \vrong, both with re handling the liquor traffic in the province men know the business from all its this purpose be cut to $2,500,000. gard to some of the provisions of the of Newfoundland. angles, and if they can be gotten together, There has been much talk recently o! . Government Liquor Act itself, and still AMERICAN IssuE reproduces first the their united council must of necessity the duty of the states to join in enforce more so with regard to the manner in clipping from the St. John's Evening benefit our community. ment of the prohibition laws, and our which those provisions have been carried Telegram which is a letter addressed to This then is my suggestion. Let you, Board is in entire sympathy with this. out in the past." the editor. Attention is called to the fact Mr. Editor, call upon Messrs. Jas. Baird, But, with some notable exceptions, is it He then goes on to say that "the con that the writer of this letter refers to a W. A. Ellis, T. H. O'Neil, to assist you in not a fact that the states are en~orcing nection between the liquor interests and request which the editor of the Evening outlining some plan to replace the present, the law better than is the National Gov the Government began long ago," and his Telegram had made of his readers that untolerable system, and unless I am great ernment, or than the National Govern reference to the liquor interests is to "the suggestions be forwarded to him as to how ly m'istaken, these men will show you the ment can enforce it with the equipment brewers as well as to the distillers and best remedy the "terrible conditions that way out of our difficulty, in short order. at hand? Taking into consideration the the liquor importers and exporters." have been brought about by·this iniquitous Now it only remains for me to apologize needs of the nation and the mandate of EARLY MORNING VISITS government control system." to the gentlemen I have named, for men the people, the only proper question to This is an important revelation, for tioning them, my only excuse being my Marshall tells of frequent visits, at 7 ask at this time is: What amount is AMERICAN IssuE correspondent says, "the faith in their ability, to settle once and needed to enforce the law? o'clock in the morning, of Henry Reifel, for all the awful condition that this bot head of the Amalgamated Breweries, Evening Telegram is our chief wet news Just at this time comes the Chicago St. paper. It publishes all the anti-prohibi tle-a-day has placed upon us. Valentine's horror. It is more than mur closely connected with the B. C. Distil Yours etc., lery, the Consolidated Liquor Exporters tion literature it can get from the United der. It is more than wholesale murder. States. It led the campaign to abolish January 17, 1929. It is one of many bands of men who have and other concerns, at the Government 'unenforced' prohibition and worked for buildings. Mr. · Marshall says that the assumed to themselves the supreme func the Quebec system of government con THE ''TELEGRAM" AWAKES tions of government; viz., the. right to de business of Mr. Reifel always was con trolled stores supplying a bottle of liquor cluded with the Minister before 8:30 in After four years of lethargy the Evening cree death and put this decree info execu a day. The fact that it now opens its tion. These bands are bootleggers, rum the morning. columns to writers such as the writer of Telegram awakes to the fact that the •·rt may be argued," ·the article says, Monroe Rum Law has certain defects. runners, smugglers. They dec:ded to vio the enclosed letter shows the present po late the prohibition law, 3.nd were al "that Mr. Reifel's frequent visits to the sition of the Telegram:• The Monroe Rum Law as at present ad Capital and to one particular Cabinet ministered is a disgrace and a scandal lowed to get by with that. Then they The second clipping reproduced is an took up the transportation of liquor be Minister there, were connected with the editorial from The Liberal Press, of St, and a menace to the youth oj the coun lavish contributions which the liquor in try. tween states and even from other nations John's, issue of January 12, · 1929. AMERI into ours. and have been allowed to get by terests are known to have made to party CAN IssuE correspondent says of The Lib This bottle-a-day has caused more funds." physical wrecks, crime and disregard for with that. Now they are executing those eral Press, "this paper is the personal or vvuo Vw1ate their code or iihe.c.J.efe \V. th However, Mr. Marshall believes that gan of the newly elected Premier, Sir R. law and order than occurred in all the the visits were~ made because "Mr. Reifel them. What will be the next move? A. Squires." llays of the open bar and under the for sought and probably obtained many con mer prohibition act. The National Government has been un Further comment on these two items able to curb this situation with the funds cessions from the Government for the from Newfoundland newspapers is un Bootlegging and shebeening which 1s liquor ring." rampant in the city today thrives and op allotted it. That is why our Board be necessary. AMERICAN IssUE merely adds lieves in writing the Harris Amendment The editor of The Owl openly charges this word from our correspondent to erates because of the Bottle-a-Day sys that 1n counting the absentee vote in tem. It is a fact only too well known to into the law. whom we are indebted for these clip EuGENE L. CrrAWFO:l.D, British Columbia on the beer-by-the pings. He says, "we have a first-class the police that a small . army of un glass bill, a vote against the measure was fortunates are daily employed visiting the Geneml Secretary, Board of Te?n";>er board or management who carry out the ance and Social Service, 11,1. E. CIHirch, twisted around to make a vote in favor of act (the bottle-a-day act). It is the free Uquor bond stores buying $1.50 rum which the measure. is later retailed at 25 cents per drink, or South. From one charge to another, through sale of liquor which causes the trouble. s m u g g 1 in g, shebeening (bootlegging), $2.50 or $3.00 per bottle from scores of . out the three articles, Mr. Marshall shows drunkenness and poverty have increased booze joints in every section of the city. NEW YORK KILLS ·WET IHLU the connection between the legislators and fifty per cent over the saloon days." Dealing just for today with the matter the liquor men, according to his o·wn con of evidence in those liquor prosecutions to By a vote of 79 to 58 the Hense of tl19 tention. At one time, for instance he Editor Evening Telegram: New York Legislature February 11 killed which the Telegram refers, ask the legal a resolution by Assemblyman Saul Stre1t;, says: Dear Sir: I have followed with grea~ fraternity or the average citizen who has CAMPAIGN FUNDS Interest, your editorials on the question o! New York City Democrat, askin~ Congress had the opportunity of attending the to amend the Volstead law to permit the "Mr. Manson, who was then attorney prohibition. If I am not mistaken great magistrate's court and listening to the ly, your sincerity is beyond question, and sale of light wines and beer. The pro general, conceived the brilliant idea that "evidence" in rum cases, what their con posal also would have called up:m the for the purposes of the Government cam you are moved by the desire, to do some clusions have been, and they will say that thing, to ameliorate the terrible condi Congress to erect Federai jails in Ne\V paign funds it would be a good plan to the sanctity of the oath is no longer a York State for the confinement of per allow the brewers to make another in tions, that have been brought about by consideration in the mouths of \:Yitnesses this iniquitious "bottle-a-day" business. sons charged with '.iolating the prohibi4 crease in the price. Th1s increase was to called to give testimony against the boot tion law, be retroactive, and was to amount to To any person of fair mind, there is no legger. 2.nother $1.50 per barrel, the difference to gainsaying that our present situation i3 The first tooth to be knocked out of the be applied to the campaign funds of the appalling, and one that calls for an im Monroe Rum Law is the bottle-a-day. WISCONSIN WETS ACTIVE Liberal Party. As far at least as the mediate remedy. This attempt of yours The prosecution for false s\vearing and The Wisconsin Senate has adopted two consumer was concerned, it made no dif to effect a cure does you great credit, and the manner of punishing in case of con resolutions. attacking prohibition. one ference at all, since then as now, the price your appeal for suggestions, should meet viction, should be the first tooth cut in calling for u s•ate-wide referendum ta of bottled beer, which was all that it was with the approval and support of all right dealing \\ith liquor traffic as it stands to decide if the manufacture, possess;,on and 1 allowable to sell at that ttme, being $20 thinking men. day. sale of beer "of not more t '
THE AMERICAN ISSUE · police have at last been completely enlisted in the battle against the bootlegger. The new chief had been pushing Borah-Reed Debate . An Advocate of Christian Patriotis~ them in bit by bit since he took office four or five months Senator Borah, of Idaho, dry champion, and Senator ago and they received the final shove by the new state's Reed, of Missouri, the big wet hope, matched forensic attorney's command to get in or face the consequences. wits in the Senate last week much to the amusement of I-IOME AND Sl~r\TE And the new state's attorney strongly intimated that the packed galleries. Both these Senators are eloquent and (E>otnblislleu 1903) consequences would not be merely dismissal from the convincing orators, both are able in debate. The mere Official Organ Anti-Saloon League of Texas force. announcement that they were scheduled to meet in de .. Published monthly, except August and Septcmbet·, hy .chicago sowed to tb~ ~·ind and is reaping the whirl bate on the .subject of prohibition brought a crowd which THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING CO. wmd. The city council on numerous occasions has gone stormed the doors of the Senate galleries and which re... J :10 South State Slreet, \Ve.-:tet·ville, Ohio on record condemning· the prohibition law. The mayor quired services of extra police to keep order. FOR THE A:\'TI-SALOO>J LEAGUE OF T8XAR has shown a leniency toward bootlegging that amounts It is doubtful if either speaker made many if indeed EorTvRJ..\L Or-FrCE-412-41 3 Southwestern Life Bldg., Dallas, Texas almost to actual approval of their activities and the any converts, for those who heard the debate and the lawless liquor gangs have had things pretty ~uch their millions who have read excerpts of it in the press were EH;\/EST H. CIIEilRT:\'GTO.N, Editor own way. given no new arguments on this important question that HEY. ATTJCUS WEBB, State Editor . Th~, Chicago Tribune,' which modestly lays claim to the is just now agitating Congress. This is no reflection on Entered a;; seconrl-class mntter at the po.,toffic_e_a_t_"\_V_e-,·t-e-rv_i_ll_e, title . ~~e w9rld's greatest newspaper," has condemned the ability of either of these two Senators. It is merely Ohio, under Act o[ :\larch 3, 1879 prohibitwn and has been much more bitter in its de~ another way of saying there is no new argument ap.. 8UERCHTPTION PRTCE-$1.f>0 a Ye::tr in the ·U--n-it-ec_l_S-ta-t-es-. n_u~ciation of real 01: imagined short comings of prohi parently to be advanced. A 11 letters should be ad~ressed~~:.m ANO STAT~~l:a~ Texas bitwn officers than it has of the criminal bootleggers. No To the drys it seems inconceivable that there can be reader of the Chicago Tribune is left in doubt as to found those who are advocating policies that would OP'F'JCERS OF A:\'TI-SALOO:..J' LEAGUE OI<' TEXAS where the Tribune sympathies lie. Within the last week weaken the government's efforts to enforce the prohibi Presiclent-.Juncm M. A. Cnn mms • . , San Antonio a. c~t:Y alderman was found guilty of violating the pro~ tion law, or who would ask for the return of the liquor J :
"It occurs to me that it should be unlawful for strengthen the enfo:r:cement of the dry laws. Then 'DOCTOR BROUGH IN DALLAS picture shows, vaudevilles or other performances to the HoME AND STATE will take great pleasure in let On January 7, Dr. Charles S. Brough, of Arkansas, bring the prohibition law into disrepute. It has ting their constituents know these things, and the spoke to the General Pastor's Association in Dallas almost reached the point that you cannot see a voters are reasonable persons. and said some things that were insulting to th~ picture or any other kind of performance but what But HoME AND STATE believes that the official acts ministry. Dr. Brough was formerly Governor of you will witness some act that has tendency to of public servants are public property. It never Arkansas, and during his administration many par make the prohibition law ridiculous. deals in the private records of public servants. It dons are reported to have been granted. Some in "Yours sincerely, believes that it is good public policy for the official Arkansas have compared his record on pardons to (Signed) WRIGHT PATMAN." conduct of its servants to be given to the voters. In that of the Fergusons in Texas. Possibly they do most every· state publications are maintained by the not know all about Texas, or they might not make dry forces to give such information to the public. such a comparison. . There is a strong demand for such in Texas. We Dr. Brough is now president of a Baptist College GEO. WASHINGTON ON PARTY LOYALTY have always followed this policy and expect to con in Arkansas, and vigorously espoused the cause of The demand for party loyalty springs from in tinue to do so. But we again emphasize the fact Al Smith during the election. The great body of tense party spirit. Many today put party loyalty that we are always ready to correct any erroneous Baptist ministers (Dr. Brough is a layman), pre above loyalty to country. George Washington suf statement that we have made in the HoME AND ferred Hoover, and some caustic criticisms were fered much for his country to do that. But many STATE.- made of the head of a Baptist scnool so vigorously do not know that the· ~~Father of o•ur Country" Dr. Atticus Vvebb is employed by the Anti~Saloon fighting for a wet candidate for President. strongly condemned even the party spirit. ::Hon. League of Texas to promote the interests of the en In his address to the pastors in Dallas, he said Thomas B. King, Stephenville, in the Dallas News forcement of prohibition in Texas. In that capacity things hard to believe. We quote the following from some time. ago, gave such a splendid resume of his it becomes necessary for him to give to the League's the Dallas Journal : utterances that we repeat it in part as follows: constituency the public records of members of the "In discussing the great need for a better edu "George· Washington, in his 'Farewell Address' to Legislature regarding such measures. Dr. Webb will cated ministry, Mr. Brough expressed deep regret ·his countrymen, says: 'I have already intimated to not swerve in the discharge of his duty, and this that so large a number of uneducated preachers you the danger of parties in the state with particu Board pledges its undivided support to him in the felt the necessity of injecting themselves into the lar reference of founding them on geographical active discharge of his obligations, and calls upon last presidential campaign. foundations. Let me now take a more comprehen.:. the constituents of the League throughout the state "These preachers certamly had the right to vote sive view and warn you in the most solemn manner to support him in behalf of his efforts at remedial as their hearts and consciences dictated, but they ag·ainst baleful effects of party spirit generally. legislation. did not have the right to bring their opinions before This spirit unfortunately exists under different (Signed) M. A. CHILDERS, Pres. Board of Mgrs. their congregations as they did," the speaker said. shapes in all governments, but in those of the popu E. A. MANESS, Chainnan. "As a result in Arkansas every preacher who lar form it is seen in its greatest varieties and is H. A. IvY. preached politics from his pulpit has left the state. truly their worst enemy.' J?. A. COPASS. One preacher, a Baptist minister, who held the most "He then adds: 'The alternate domination of one E. D. JENNINGS. lucrative ministerial position in the state with a faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of re Executive Comm,ittee. salary of $12,500 yearly, left by the ·overwhelming venge natural to party discussion, in different ages vote and request of his congregation. In the min and country has perpetrated the most horrible enor istry there lies a great danger in ignorance from mities and is itself a frightful despotism.' prejudice." "Washington then adds precept on precept and ANALYSIS OF VOTE IN LAST ELECTION Just how Dr. Brough can criticise pastors for says: 'the common spirit of party is sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to We take our hat off to Al Smith for one ability speaking for a dry candidate, while he, president of the ability to turn adverse incidents to his favor. a church school, and to whom Baptist parents had discourage and restrain it.' Yet, we find those who Last November the votes had not been c~untedt committed their children at the most impression are glorifying party rule as the savior of democracy, in which glorification they radically differ with the when sensing the worst defeat in history, he turned able age, was out fighting just as vigorously for a it to a favorable incident by boldly (though falsely), wet candidate, does not appear clear to us. Prob 'Father of the Country,' who said that party spirit is the direct enemy of republics. proclaiming that he had received the largest popu ably it is upon the principle usually followed by wet lar vote ever received by any candidate, except by 1 "Again he who goes down in history as the 'first in politicians, namely, 'it is always in order for min Hoover. In fact it was about one million below Coo isters to espouse the cause of the wets, but never peace and .Jhe first in war,' says of party spirit: 'It is a fire that demands uniform vigilance to prevent lidge in 1924. the cause of .the drys." The true comparison can only be made by noting But as to the correctness of the facts stated, Dr. its breaking out into a flame which, instead of the percentage of the whole vote cast that a candi Compere of the Baptist Advance, Little Rock, warning, it consumes!' · "This fire of so-called party spirit that does not date gets. When this is done, Smith's vote runs Arkansas, has the following to say in his paper: down disgracefully near the bottom, only Parker, "It is not true that any Baptist pastor in Arkansas warm, but consumes, is a graphic description of hell fire, fire which consists of a fire created by Cox and Davis going lower. These three ran so low received $12,500 a year. So far as is known to us as to make low records for the party, and Davis's only two Baptist pastors -vvho took part in that fight brimstone and smoke, in which those here in Texas who are worshipers of party spirit -are talking like vote was lower because LaFollette on a third party have left the state. According to the Association ticket took so heavily from him. · for 1927 (we do not have minutes for that associa owls in smoked bottles. And if Washington is cor rect in his forecast of party spirit this babbling of In Curent History for February, Mr. Simon Miche tion for 1928), one of the pastors was receiving let, President of the ~ TRIBUTE PAID BY PRESEI\TJ' DAY LEADERS TO THE GREAT PROHIBiTION REFORl\1 PIONEER Anent the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth education is nine-tenths of lasting re HE PAVED THE WAY of General Neal Dow, father of the Maine prohibition law, which falls on Marhc 20, form, and I feel confident that we shall Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, President Na leaders of church, temperance and civic organizations, representatives of the Federal address ourselves to it with renewed tional. Woman's Democratic Law EnjO?· government and educators have united in paying this great apostle of reform, through zeal and, I trust, wlth wisdom. cement League: THs AMERICAN IsSUE their mbutes. Those of us who have been working for Among the tributes and words of honor written for Neal Dow, are the following: prohibition and law enforcement will DEMANDED AID OF TilE LAW honor. From the beginning of his day THE FIRST PROHIBITION properly pay tribute to that pioneer Rev. Peter J. O'Cal'Laghan, D. D., Su and his work came the incentive and the !'riGHT apostle, General Neal Dow, father of the perior of· Mt. M elchisedech Catholic Mis inspiration for final culmination in our Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, Prominent Maine prohibition law and progenitor or sion Apostolate, President of the Catholic national law. The progress has been sig in Many Temperance Activities: national prohibition. The courageous Total Abstinence Union: nificant and, while the question of na My grandfather was Jedidiah position taken by this great man has I was born and bred in Massachusetts. tional prohibition today bas its vexing Jewett, one time mayor of Portland, made the work of those following much I grew up to respect Neal Dow as a great angles, the conviction is deep rooted in Maine. He was known for his tact easier and paved the way for national pioneer in what I always felt was one of the hearts of the American citizenship and pacifying qualities. On the prohibition in our country which is the greatest movements for human bet that the legalized liquor traffic must night that prohibition became ef proving such a success, notwithstanding terment. In my boyhood days his never be allowed· to return. From our fedive in Maine, some time in the the fact that propaganda from the wet achievements in Maine were topics of viewpoint, looking below the froth of fifties of the nineteenth century, I press has made the work most difficult. household conversation. Like most of agitation and propaganda, we find the have heard him te~l my aunt how, The women of our country and par those who were devoted to temperance solid substance of better conditions about one o'clock In the morning, ticularly those members of the National reform, he felt that progress on any large everywhere. Again we lift our voices there was a great knocking at the Woman~s Democratic Law Enforcement scale in eradicating the evils of alcohol gladly in tribute to this early apostle of front daor. It was the sheriff come League, reverence Neal Dow because of ism were impossible without the aid of prohibition. to tell my gl;andfather that the sa the part he played in paving the way for the law. Father Mathew had come to the loonkeepers were in a great riot, the carrying on to a successful end that same conclusion, but felt that his own ALL HAIIL TO HIS MEMORY resisting the closing of their shops, movement which he began s• many years best contribution to the cause of sobriety Dr. Edmund D. Soper, President Ohio and Mr. Dow ·wanted my grand ago. was in continuing his priestly advocacy Wesleyan University: father to come at once. My aunt of total abstinence. Neal Dow is a long distance removed said they hurried away and he got APPLIED TO POLITICS from us today and yet I think back over into the market place to find a Rev. Deets , Pickett, Research Secretary SPIRIT OF PROHIBITION LAWS the history of the temperance and prohi fearful uproar, charging the police Board of TemperanTe, Prohibition and TRIUMPH bition movement during the last thirty when they tried ft~rcibly to close Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Rev. Daniel A. Poling, D. D., ·president five years, that is, since I began seriously the doors of the saloons and drive Church: , of the United Society oj Christian En to. be interested in it, I am r.eminded or the barkeepers out. They brought Neal Dow was the forerunner of the deavor: the tremendous influence he and his my grandfather a firkin and he conviction that right is right and wrong General Neal Dow, of Maine, is more early movement in Maine have had. stood upon it and spoke for his is wrong in politics as well as in re than the father of American prohibition There was an accomplished fact, prohi friend, Mr. Dow, and for the law. ligion. He believed that the affairs of -he was the spirit of its triumph. Only bition was a feasible plan-had it not His wisdom told and when he c:1me the state could be run on the. principle one other name approaches his in sig succeeded in one state of the Union? We home about three in the morning, that trades inimical to the popular wel nificance and power, the name of a were deeply encouraged by his. faith and my aunt said he told them how the fare could be suppressed, no matter woman-Francis E. Willard. Neal Dow his accomplishment-what could we not rioters were dispersed and the sa what the strength of the profit motive was at once the prophet a:qd the states do in an even darker time? So, all hail loons were closed. This is a bit of supporting them. The significant thing !llan of this world's greatest social re today to the memory of this daring pio history of the first prohibition about Neal Dow's philosophy is that it form. neer and man of faith, Neal Dow! night in America. has never at any time been weaker than it was on the day when he set forth to VlORLD OWES HIM MUCH e~tablish . its place in the world of prac PIONEER IN GREAT WORK tiCal affairs. It never will be weaker. Its Dr. Walte1· G. Clippinger, President Ot ARGUES FOR ITS PERMANENCY Hon. Theodore E. Burton, United States terbein College: Mrs. Lena Lowe Yost, Legislative Su yit~lity lies in its fundamental truth and Senator .from Ohio: pzrintendent, National W. C. T. U.: 1f 1t were possible to conceive of a time Whatever may be the views of any per As a boy I heard much of Neal Dow when prohibition would be crushed to son on the subject of prohibition and his pioneer work always made a Not since time began is there recorded earth, the certainty of its eventual tri whether favoring or opposing-it must be strong impression on my youthful mind. such progress in awakening the moral umph would not be less. Our children who conceded that General Dow was a pioneer He was a prophet, a pioneer, and a sturdy conscience of any people, and this prog today pass down the streets unmolested in a great work, and that his influence, apostle of better things. The nation, in ress must have exceeded the greatest; by the open saloon in large part owe their first exerted in Maine, was widespread. fact, the nations of the world, owe muc11 hopes and most vivid imagination o! to him in recognition of his faith and crusaders like General Dow. There is sa:f~ty to the men and women who were Few have had a more important part in courage in blazing the trail for a dry Wllnng. to st=:tnd for right in the ·days . the legislative policies of our country. nothing that argues so convincingly for ":hen 1t subJected thern to ridicule and _world. the permanency of the prohibition or Violence. liquor as the review of the legislation CALLS ATTENTION TO PRESENT BUIILT BETTER THAN HE KNEW against it. This history of the legisla DANGER Rev. S. Parkes Cadrnan, D. D., Presi tion with the progress as portrayed by FIRST _TO SEE AND APPLy Ron. Simeon D. Fess, United States dent Federal Council of Churches: the decisions of the United States Su THE TRUTH Senator trom Ohio: I wonder if General Dow foresaw that preme Court will convince anyone that Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General Sec I am informed that Ohio will join In his ptinciples would receive a nation prohibition is here to stay. The prin retary B~ard of Temperance, Prohibition the national observance of the anniver wide endorsement through the Federal ciple is woven in every fiber of the laws and Publzc Morals oj the :Methodist E i _ sary of the birth of General Neal Dow. I Legislature and be repeatedly approved of state and nation through continuous copal Church: P s believe this to be a very proper course by successive elections. Surely he built legislation so early championed by Neal Neal Dow was one of the first men to for the state to take. Among the great better than he knew, and we who have Dow. If we could carry ourselves back se~ ti:at moderation could not stop an reforms in our history to elevate civiliza entered into his labors must see to it to those days so long ago, and in spirit, ev:Il like rum drinking; that total ab tion, that started by Neal Dow is one of that they shall not be in vain. The chief at least, participate in the plans and stmence of the well disposed was not the the greatest. It has taken three-quart~·s duty of all the forces of prohibition is hopes of those who inspired the move way to get at a public traffic in intox' _ of a century of agitation, organizatiOn, surely to educate the mind of our in ment that has fruited so gloriously, we c~nts;. that license only promoted it· th~t education and legislation to brmg the coming generation concerning the wis would realize what a far cry in the ~gh license entrenched it; that loc~l op reform to its present status. The evils dom of the Eighteenth Amendment, and world's progress it is from "the then" to tion was too local and too optional. that of the liquor traffic have been indicted by also of personal behavior which com "the now." They builded bette:- than only prohibition could prohibit th~ evil~ the twentieth century ct~nscience of the ports with that amendment. After all, they knew. of personal drinking and the public traf ~ world. The United States has taken a fi.c .. He was a noble exponent of this co:a lead in this reform, and is now in the VIctiOn for he spent his life and hi f testing period of whether the decree of tune publishing his views and s~w1o~ the American people can . be nullified by Maine "kneedeep" in leanet literat~r: the forces of appetite. While I have no PERCENTAGE OF INSANITY DUE TO ALCOHOL tho~e leaves of life for the healing of th~ fear of the outcome, as everyone must be ration. ~e saw Maine go out of the convinced that with the lapse of time the Iquor busmess, and saw in vision that cause will grow stronger and stronger, yet the ~~U!Jtry would ultimately become a the present situation calls for an aroused 1922 ...3.7 prohibition nation. He did not live till public opinion against disobedience to Its. ~onsu~mation, but he saw it afar and law as never before. The anniversary of reJmced ~n ,~he sight and had the great the great reformer would be a good time gift of. kmdung other people's vision and to call the nation's attention to this enthusu~,sm. Neal Dow was the father danger. of natwnal prohibition, and a noble father the cause certainly had for h. WORTHY DISTINCT HONOR ~am.e s~ould be forever associ~ted wit~ Hon. Grant M. Hudson, Congressman enJamm Rush and Franklin and Jeffer from Michigan: son, John Brown and Lincoln John B The 125th birthday anniversary of Gough and Frances E. Willa~·d Henry General Neal Dow is a very significant Ward Beecher and Bishop Simpdon who wer~ prophe!s in their day of the 'more and important anniversary in the fight glonous days to come. of the nation for a sober citizenship. Neal Dow's fine work for temperance grows in importance and significance as PERCENT OF TOTAL ADMISSION5 NpT SATISFIED WITH HOPES the years go by. It is more than fitting F~ed.erick . W. Srnith, Superintendent and proper that throughout the nation Chnstwn C~vic League oj Maine: this anniversary might receive a distinct In the preface of his "Reminiscences" General Neal Dow states his hopes "that Page Seven a simply told story of the temperance which was at a stage not unlike that ot movement in Maine may stimulate some the present proposal for outlawing war. who fear God and love their fellowmen to aid in securing. the protection of society OWE :QEBT OF GRATITUDE from the infinite evils resulting from the S. E. Nicholson, Chairman Friends liquor traffic." Neal Dow, however, was Board ot Prohibition and Public Morals: not satisfied with havtng hopes. As a The prohibition cause and every other legislator, as mayor of Portland against good cause, for that matter, owes a debt active opposition, as.. a city alderman. and of gratitude and appreciation to Neal as a plain citizen he did all he could to Dow. Not only did he nave an early realize those hopes. Maine is proud to vision of what to do with the liquor traf day of her great citizen who led her to fic, but he had the right psychology ~s take the forward step that guided the to procedure against it. It was by edu nation in later days, and we hope, as he cation and the distribution of literature did also, ·will guide the nations of the that he sought to create a public opinion world to a redemption from great evils. against the evils of the saloon that would be effective and lasting. The prohibitiion CROWN OF GLORY THAT IS HIS cause would do well to learn over again Albert E. Shoemaker, Executive Secre this lesson of procedure from this great tary Anti-Saloon League of the District benefactor of the race. of Columbia: Neal Dow was more than the father of MOST DOMINANT FIGURE IN MAINE prohibition in Maine. His successful work Rev. Dr. M. P. Boynton, Pastor Wood- and leadership against the legalized lawn Baptist Church, Chtcago: - liquor traffic in that state entitled· him to Now and theJ). a great character domi be regarded as the pioneer who blazed the nates his entire state. He fills it as way for national prohibition, and surely though he were the waters of the sea world prohibition as well, for Maine led covering the entire territory. Such a America, and America is now leading the man was General Neal Dow. He was the world in this, the greatest of all moral most dominant figm·e in Maine during his reforms. What a crown of glory is his! active political and social services. The What honor is due him this man of the - Legislature would suspend its business hour! A man of courage, faith and con and House and Senate would meet in viction, he was resourceful, tactful, and, joint session;to hear this mighty man of above all, firm in his pu~ose to be right Maine. even despite great obstacles-truly a man So wisely did he use his influence and of God, inspired and led by God to do His speak his words that his will became al will to the ultimate overflow of. man's most written law in Maine. Rarely has a enemy of the ages, the habit-forming state been, so blessedly dominated by a ,,poison, the great destroyer of men. Godly character as was the State of A L C 0 H 0 L. Maine in the latter ripe and fruitful years , of General Neal Dow. MAINE VICTORY Il'H:3PIRATION Since his death he has become known Alb~1t E. Laing, Superintendent Ver as the Father of American Prohibition mont Anti-Saloon League. and .though dead he yet speaks through During the greater part of the session out the length and breadth of Prohibition of 1852, the Vermont Legislature had America. under consideration a bil1 or bills to pro It was romantic and climaxic that Gen hibit the traffic in intoxicating liquor. A eral Neal Dow's son was tne man to arise wave of temperance reform was sweeping 1n the late Republican National Conven over the country, and Maine, under the tion at Kansas City to move to lay upon direction and influence of Neal Dow, had the table and thus kill forever the foolish passed a prohibition act, tne nrst of its and futile resolution of Nicholas Murray kind in the United States. This new sys Butler, of New York. The soul of the old tem found many enthusiastic supporters general must have rejoiced in the action in the state and at the annual meeting of his son. of the Vermont Temperance Society, Thus have arisen the fathers and sons January 21-22, 1852, resolutions were of America to smite on to its death the adopted, declaring the ex~stlng liquor beverage liquor traffic. laws of Vermont inadequate and endors GENERAL NEAL ·noW AT ABOUT THE TIME OF IDS DEATH ing the Maine law. Committees were A THRILLING STORY I appointed to draft a bill and to invite ture," and "enlist the natlon•s youth" to led to look upon him in the same attitude Rev. Dr. Jonathan B. Hawk, Associate Neal Dow to visit the state. This state resist a nationally financed liquor revo that I did upon one of the twelve Apos Editor Adult Bible Class Monthly: convention was followed by many county lution; and send fleets of aeroplanes to tles of the New Testament. Prohibition Every cause has its pioneers. One o! temperance meetings which enaorsea the bomb the bases and · urop prohibition at this time undoubtedly is very largely our first of the temperance movement policy of prohibition. Neal Dow accepted propaganda behind the lines of the for due to the life and work of Neal Dow. My was General Neal Dow, who became a the invitation to come to Vermont, and eign allies, the internationally financed belief is that prohibition would not be in leader in the legislative phases of the addressed the members of the Legislature liquor traffic. We cannot avoid the con the Constitution if Neal Dow had not movement. Largely through his influ on the Maine liquor law, strongly urging flict, for liquor knows that, so long as consecrated his life to the overthrow of ence, the State of Maine passed the Dow temperance legislation for Vermont. His there is prohibition anywnere, liquor is in the saloon many ~ears ago. Prohibition Law, which was among the visit gave great inspiration and help in danger everywhere; and prohibitionists first laws prohibiting the liquor traffic in launching the fight against intoxicating should know that, so long as there is a SHOWED IT COULD BE DONE state-wide area. This was a drastic, liquor in this state. liquor traffic anywhere, pwmo1t10n is in Cora Frances Stoddard, Executive Sec thorough-going law and served as a mile danger everywhere. So, here's to Neal retary Scientific Temperance Federation: post for a generation of workers in all SUPPLIED THE INFORMATION Dow who started the march for national When the time comes for a distinctively parts of the country. It is interesting Rev. Marna S. Poulson, D. D., Superin prohibition in this century; and let us new step in social progress, some person that this great social re1vrm or temper tendent Anti-Saloon League of New Jer "say it with pledges" that we will "go ance and prohibition has througn tne ality usually appears to lead the way. years gathe1·ed to itself men and women sey: through" to international prohibition in Thus it is that Neal Dow's name is in When Neal Dow began to sow Maine this, our century. .separably connected with the policy of of the pioneer spirit. That daring little knee deep with literature against alcohol, prohibition of the liquo:r: traffic. He did tribe of Israel known as the Rechabites there were those who laughed, but he, BROUGHT BLESSINGS TO NATION not originate the idea. For nearly is a case in point. Neal Dow as an in with keen appreciation of what informa Rev. E. S. Shumaker, D. D., Superin- twenty years before he brought to the dividual is an outstanding example in modern times of this. same crusading tion will do to any vice, waited confident tendent Indiana Anti-Saloon L~ague: . Maine Legislature in 1846 the names o:r ly for the harvest. It came. Its coming Neal Dow probably builded better than spirit which has stirred' the idealism of - forty thousand petitioners for a prohibi- was as natural as the harvest of summer he knew when he became the leader of ..tory law, the tide of public opinion in the younger men and women who hurled after the sowing of spring. Intelligent the prohibition forces of America. Could themselves into this g1·eat movement with ·United States for abolishing the liquor all the energy and courage of a knight people vote wisely . when they have the he re-visit the land to which he gave all traffic had been rising. Already attempts necessary information. Neal Dow sup that he had of his sterling mannooa and had been made in several states to secure errant. plied the information, the people used see the wonderful transition that the ac such laws. The matter had progressed their intelligence, and Maine set the pace ceptance of the things for which he stood so far that the very winter this first MARKS PROGRESS in the race for a dry world. Neal Dow's has brought into the land, I have no Maine law was passed, the United States L. J. Taber, National !Y.l(.Zster Nationcu p!an has grown into a world-wide cru doubt that he would devoutly thank God Supreme Court, in its unanimous decision Grange: sade. Sow the nations knee deep witll and take courage. that the state has the right to prohibit The anniversary of the death of Gen facts-the result is already \VTitten in the the traffic, had demolished one obstacle eral Neal Dow should bring to the minds Stars and Stripes. WHAT 75 YEARS HAVE WROUGHT the liquor forces had hoped to hold of the people of America the outstanding Rev. Joseph · A. McClellan, Superinten against this legislation. progress that this nation has made in re THE SWEEP OF YEARS dent of the Anti-Saloon Leuyue of Kan But Neal Dow demonstrated that the gard to temperance and moral advance Dr. R. P. Hutton, Superintendent Rhode sas: tiling could be done. He not · only talked ment. A century and a quarter ago, had Js:and Anti-Saloon League: It is a \Vorthy tribute to so heroic a re about its desirability, but he brought any man predicted that a saloonless na 'Cnder Neal Dow's leadership Maine former as General Neal Dow that the needed persistent leadership and or tion was in the future, he would have was the first outpost of the national fort principles which he advocated 75 years ganizing ability for creating public sen been considered a dreamer or a lunatic; rc-;s of the liquor traffic to be captured by ago, although sorely ass~lled and gainsaid timent and rousing it to the "sticking yet, as a result of the pathway blazed by · the advancing hosts of temperance, and in his generation, have ultimately tri point" to remand not only prohibition great characters like General Neal Dow, he lived to see a number of other im umphed. legislation but effective prohibition legis Frances Willard and others, our nation p:Jrtant outworks thus captured. Today lation. He courageously demonstrated as now enjoys financial stability, moral that army, grown to the strength of na CONTRIBUT~D TO v .tC l'ORY an official that the law could be enforced progress, healthful development and a tional conquest, ,·ictoriously occupies the Warren G. Jones, Superintendent Wf.t with results beneficent to the state. He standard of living superior to that of any national constitutional citadel, repulsing consin Anti-Saloon League: gave himself to the necessary subsequent 11ati{)n in the world. Much of all this counter attacks, each repulse being more I remember in my bt~y:'lOOd days of work of continuing to enlighten and build can be attributed to the banishment or decisive than the one before; but we must hearing my father and others preach in public sentnment for the support of the the legalized saloon .and establishment o! ''sow the .nation knee deep with litera- rega~·d to tl1e work o! Mr. Dow and I WftG J't'inciple of outlawing the liquor tramc better ideals in American life. Pag-e Eight HOME AND STATE :March 8, 1929 But lawyers are generally biased witnesses. From EOUCATION FOR TEMPERANCE JIM REED LIVING IN AGLASS HOUSE the time they enter the law school, their whole stlt'dY State Prohibition Commissioner, R. R. Beetham, Before having to surrender the place he prized so is concerned with the nghts of the accused. They of Ohio, told an audience of church people recel1tly highly in the United States Senate, Jim Reed, of seldom study the rights of the law-abiding citizen. that we need to get back to the old-time methods Missouri took occasion to vent his spleen upon pro They become warped and prejudiced in their think· of teaching prohibition by teaching the effects of hibition, unmindful of the fact that he himself was ing favorable to "the accused." No minister of the alcohol upon the drinker. Scores of Texas news dwelling in a very unstable glass house. Gospel ever becomes so wedded to the cause of re papers took up this remark, and preached some Jim Reed denounced his fellow Senators as hypo ligion as the lawyer does to the cause of his clientele. pious exhortations to the temperance forces in crites whom he claimed to have been voting dry and Thim, the ministers "clientele," if we may call it Texas about preaching temperance. These news drinking wet. From our personal knowledge of the such, is that of the law-abiding citizens, while the papers seem to be entirely ignorant of the fact that United States Senate, and of Jim Reed, we discount lawyer's "clientele" is that of the lawless. A prom for months, ever since November 6, 1928, the Anti the charges he makes about 50 per .cent. inent district judge once remarked to the writer SaJ.oon League of TeJlaS has had on an aggressive We wish that no man, either in the United States that his experience as a young lawyer convinced and comprehensive education for temperance, and Senate, or elsewhere would drink wet at all, but we him that when the average lawyer had defended a that her speakers have been addressing multiplied want to say to Jim Reed that we have infinitely half-dozen criminals, he became convinced that thousands on this question. The newspapers ought more respect even for a United States Senator who "his God-given mission was to keep every criminal to better keep up with the prohibition movement, drinks wet and votes against his appetite, than we from being punished if possible." and there would be less criticism of it in their have for one who both drinks wet and votes wet. If we are to keep ministers out of the Legislature, columns. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw why not exclude patrons of bootleggers and their stones. attorneys also? But the Senate has gone on record ·when the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified the that they will not even refuse to employ the patrons Anti-Saloon League told the people of America that of the bootleggers. How can they afford to vote for the exigencies of the World War had placed the this resolution?· Eighteenth Amendment in the lap of the American TO DISFRANCHISE MINISTERS; WHY NOT people at least ten years before the educational process had been finished that was then under way ALSO PATRONS OF BOOTLEGGERS? Wet Propagandists Shocked; Moonshining ~-· by the temperance and church forces that would be ·necessary to prepare public sentiment in America Representative J, Thomas Thompson, of Houston, for making good on the Eighteenth Amendment. introduced into the House a resolution proposing a Rampant in Wet Rumania constitutional amendment to disfranchise the min The Anti-Saloon League also reformed her lines of (From Congressional Record) battle for just such an educational campaign for isters. Oh! they would still be allowed to vote, that temperance, prepared her literature, and went forth is, if they voted right, which means taking their . Congressman Louis Crampton, from Michigan, on vigorously at the work, but these newspapers who counsel from the AI Smith-Jim Ferguson leaders. floor of Congress on Janu~.ry 31, said: do not know what the Anti-Saloon League is doing But under this resolution they would not be allowed I find in another Associated Press dispatch that and cannot take enough time from cussing it to find to hold membership in the Legislature, no matter Bucharest has discovered that half the population out what it is doing, spread across their front pages how much the voters should desire them there. are drinking moonshine liquor. the claim that the fight for temperance was over, There are five or six ministers in the present Legis HALF OF CITY FOUND USING MOONSHINE and that the Anti-Saloon League should quit the lature, each one faithfully representing his con BUCHAREST OFFICERS SEIZE WINE MADE field. When the Anti-Saloon League refused to quit, stituency, and loyal to the principles of American OF ANILINE DYE AND SACCHARINE but went on with its educational work for temper government. Bucharest, Rumania, December 1-The govern ance, these same newspapers denounced the Anti The Committee on Constitutional Amendmepts~ ment has discovered that half the population of this Saloon League, saying that it was remaining in the to its honor, refused to report the bill out favorably . . wine-drinking city has been consuming moonshine field simply to agitate the question and take up col But notice of a favorable minority report was give!]. and other adulterated liquors. An epidemic of acute lections, and that this proved that it was a set of by Representative P. L. Anderson, of San Antonio, eye troubles has been traced to the synthetic wines grafters. And now they are lecturing the League and Representative Grady Woodruff, of Decatur, but and it has been estimated that the moonshiners and the .dry leaders on a subject that the League this was also defeated. have taken in more than $500,000. knows a hundred times more about than the news We understand that the plea for this resolution is Analysis of the fraudulent wine showed that it papers do. If only the newspapers would stop lying "to separate more fully church and state." There contained only 1 per cent of grape juice. Aniline about the League and endeavor to make an honest is no constitutional provision for such action. The dye, saccharine, and low-grade alcohol formed the effort to find out what it is doing, a lot of the Constitution, both Federal and state, stop with the principal b.asis of the concoction. vaporings filling their columns would be avoided. provision that there shall be no state established or I find in the papers this morning that Yugoslavia supported church. But the promoters of this reso intends to take strong measures against alcoholic lution are dissatisfied with the Constitution of our drinks, even to the extent of arresting those who Fathers, and want to go much farther toward the drink, because of so much excessive drinking in that infidelity sponsored by France during tihe Reign of non-prohibition country. SOBRIETY IS WORTH MORE THAN MONEY Terror. Federal Judge WM. H. ATWELL May we suggest to those who favor this move that PLANS LIMIT ON LIQUOR-YUGOSLAVIA GOV (From Dallas Journal) it is far more important to separate the outlawed ERNMENT TO BAN EXCESSIVE RUM liquor traffic and the state than any further to drive DRINKING "To achieve the sobriety of this nation is worth a wedge between the church forces and the govern Belgrade, Yugoslavia, January 30-The new o·ov mc.•:e money tt..•.:m Congress could ever appropriate,'' ment. It does not require a Constitutional Amend ernment intends to take strong measures ag~nst Federal Judge Wm. H. Atwell declared Saturday ment either, for it is already there. Why not pass alcoholic drinks. While total prohibition is not con morning i.n commenting on the $37,000,000 appro a law that no patron of, or attorney for, bootleggers templated, the government, being appalled at the priated by Congress in the current session for the· shall be allowed membership in our· State Legisla effects attributed to excessive drinking, has decided enforcement of the· prohibition law ; an appropria ture. This is a far more urgent need, and will be to make drunkenness a crime. tion which, because of its magnitude, has provoked more in keeping with loyalty to our Constitution. If Anyone found drunk in a public place will be se much criticism. passed, possibly there would be few left to oppose verely punished, especially if the offender is a civil "Many of those who are protesting against the ministers in the Legislature. servant. Certain repressive measures included al expenditure of such a vast sum in an effort to dry Why should patrons of bootleggers be denied ready in the new penal code will be greatly up the nation are. the kind of people who make membership there? There are many reasons. They strengthened. such an appropriation necessary," Judge Atwell said. furnish the money for maintainence of band of "Those who are making the loudest fuss," he added, outlaws, which act itself comes mighty near to "are perhaps those who pay no income tax or a gov treason, in fact, if not technically so. They also MODERN SPEAKEASI~S ernment tax of any sort. furnish the funds for bribing our public officials in 0. O.'s ODDITIES sofar as they are bribed. A worse crime against "I am not one who should pass on the necessity By 0. MciNTYRE government cannot be committed than that of o. or lack of necessity of an appropriation of that (Providence,