Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 10

CA—10 %% THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOX TU ks AY, J 4 ANUARY 26, 1922. BECK URGES VOTE ON LIUOR 53U People Should Get Chanc ' to Decide Problem, He Believes. (Continued From Sixth Page.) festore home rule to the several States, nd no stu e y can question that the men C n would fied that the rig ernment_ would, preserved. Claims Strong Support. 1 of the omitted to I concede that Constitution should no provis be res ablé sentiment submission. But no fair-n can question the existence of sentime today, after 12 years of national prohibit Whether a majority or a minority favors resub- mission discussed sion there is no au x mining th now is ) e Literary ted with s ness.and in which millia can citizens participated the votes cast favored either a repeal or a modification of the _eighteenth amendment. This is 5o [ many ardent and sincere dr out of Congress, are now willing to re- submit the eighteenth amendment. Only the fanatical drys oppose The form our proposed amend- ment is less important than the fact resubmission, and if my esteemed or Howell, has a better form to test the will of the people, I hope he will e it reasons why ment should be res 1 high the same high noble_in motive ience of has is that such an ex- any country must atisfactory and hazardous. compact, and homogene- e Finland has only re- mned its own prohibition law, and it is most signidcant that 60 per cent of the women voters favored such repeal In our amendment years' trial expe 1) n mall country the eighteenth has been given over 12 Millions have been spent in its attempted enforcement, and, what is more deplorable, over 500,000 American citizens have been either in- dicted or convicted of violation of this Jaw. Yet today, at least in the large industrial cities, the law is less en- forced than it was at the beginning. No such general revolt against the en- 70 per cent of | M | | point the eighteenth amendment is as | will be defeated by a small minority of | SCOTS HERE REVIVE ican people, through their Representa- | { much the law of the land as any other | part of the Constitution, yet in con- | | Sidering its resubmission it should al- | ways be remembered that it cannot| | claim the same sanction as the original | | Constitution. The latter was framed | | by the ablest body of men that ever | | attempted such a task, and they were | | especially selected for ‘the work. The Constitution, as_thus submitted and | | ratified, contained the names of George | ¢ | Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alex- ander Hamilton, James Wilson and | James Madison, and other of the “im- | mortal 39.” I may add that not one of them would have favored the eight- eenth amendment, and if they could have conceived of it as a future possi- | | bility it is probable that they would have abandoned any attempt to form a central government that would dic- tate to the citizen what he should drink ¢ eighteenth amendment was pro- i to the people in a time of great | teria, by a few hundred Senators a epresentatives who had not been elected for such a purpose, and it was fled by a few thousand State legis- who, likewise, had not been ed with any such mandate } Moreover, the work of the constitu- tional convention was the free expres- sion of the able men who created this Republic, while it is an \mq\mstxoncd‘ fa that the eighteenth amendmen submitted and ratified by many latures under moral dures In- the eighteenth amendment was bootlegged into the Constitution and cted upon this country a reign hypocrisy and disrespect h as never before existed in our history. Apart from this fact, no law which interferes with individual liberty can ever be enforced, unless sustained by a greatly preponderating public senti- nt. The old Jewish Talmud was philosophically correct when it said that custom rises above law. The same able that htruth was voiced by the greatest politi- in and cal philosopher of antiquity, Aristotle, when he said that laws and even con- | stitutions could never be enforced if | the elghteenth amendment. ethos, meaning the This his- ages | contrary to the spirit or gentus of & people tory of sumptuary laws in all proves this fact. Blamed for Lawlessness. There is a final reason for such re submission at this time. Prohibitior is not the only issue before the Amer- ican people. We are living in very try- ing times and have many difficult prob- Jems. The question is not a partisan | issue, and If resubmitted to the people it will go far to clear the decks for other important public policies. More- over, the failure to submit will simply intensify the revolt against the law and | the i1l feeling which now exists between different classes of people. Until thus resubmitted the question becomes an | irrepressible one, like the old slave | question. Unfortunately it is within the power of a minority of the American people to block the repeal or modification of Sixteen States, With less combined population than that of my native State, Pennsyl- vania, can undoubtedly defeat the re- | peal of a law which Is favored by a Jarge majority of the American people. | as resubmission would demonstrate. 1f | thus blocked, the fanatical “drys” need forcement of a law has ever been known | not suppose that the American people in our history, and in itself proves the |are powerless. existence of & very substantial senti- ment that the eighteenth amendment | bondage. should be repealed hile from a purely legalistic stan: ADVERTISEMENT, =1 . They are not yet mei helpless slaves of a system of moral| They still have the anclent | power of the English-speaking race over the public purse, and if their | 7 N THE MAN WHO SOLD SOMETHING JYUST AS GOODY? OSSIBLY this cartoon is overdrawn. We have the deepest sympathy for the clerk who must substitute to eke out a modest income. We urge you not to blame him if he attemps to “switch” you from a de- manded product to another “brand” that would not sell. The clerk o9 e meeds the money he makes in commissions. ‘We are gunning for substitution at this time only because it might rob . .you of your opportunity to experience an absolute revelation in shaving r-hm. Today’:filhm is a transcending achievement in blade manu- the American people, then the day will come, and sure come, when the Amer- tives in Congress, acting under a clear constitutional right to determine ex- penditures, will refuse to appropriate | one penny to enforce an unenforceable | law. This is not nullification, but the exercise of a constitutional right. If the “drys” are well advised, they will prefer resubmission and give the American people an opportunity to ex- press their majestic will. BACK FRANCE IN RACE North Dakota G. O. P. Progressives Vote to Support Former Senator. VALLEY CITY, N. Dak., January 26 () —Progressive Republicans of North Dakota indorsed Joseph I. France, for- mer United States Senator from Mary- land for President at their State con- vention yesterday. France already has been filed as & candidate in the State primary elec- tion March 15. The Progressives took this step last week with his approval and were informed he would campaign in North Dakota next month Coalition with the Non-Partisan League, another Republican party fac- tion, was voted by the Progressives. Rev. John Hector, 86 years of age, of Aberdeen, Scotland, is celebrating the diamond jubilee of his ordination. 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