The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 18

___ THE SEATTLE STAR GUNNAR KASSON’ . Fats by the Bushel {EIGHT BOMBERS } DEMANDS Pay << =aS 2 eS GWEN DEATH AMEND THE VOLSTEAD LAWS’ | Says Man Who Hired Him| Sofia Court Condemns Man) q eat ' c, t cott Bullitt, ‘ j v i ‘atement mede at the Jefferson Day Dinner, Chamber of Commer by Sco : ; é (In view of the criticism of the statement 1 “bei + 4h and Noted Dog Owes $1,332 | Who Killed 190 Toastmaster, that President Wileon opposed the Volstead Law and that the Democratic Party should declare t u ~ ihe | Bight men have | favor of amending ét, the remarks in question are published below.) Ege . " t ath and tw ‘ ad . € t 1 f Coast . Ya . sug, t * 1 and more n ; : 4 P rom i part ands f t ' 4 the 1 fo ¥ lier to " 1 t mendn t - a? ma and Koeff w hang ‘ be z nelghbor ‘ f f Wie nd wome t ' m ‘ >” ‘ 1 ‘ - ritish Colum ft 1 , ‘ Pe a ate others already #re) win elections in the future by 4 Y : q Baie te He a * d team ! " fond who . Tel ing ¢ memory of Thor . . ‘ : Pr m | over from t tes the ¢ 1 ¢ . A court martia] tried the men. | Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, : i ' ‘ 5 ree Filipino Knifer | gunsesd. ty <appeniing. to the | CAaMaian tne ‘Vet mitt ok | tive te. is "| want to take chances of Alask if T | Jars are being spent monthly by | py n ¢ r . j Gets Life Term) jnotes of avranam tincoin and sci the ‘ederal Government on land > t Volley. of Bullets \* LOS ANGRLA'S, May 11.~Timothy| General Grant, ‘The Democrat Pr i i Yatko, Pilipiray ec t tal and sea to shut off the importa of the Abolitionists 1 Halts Moonshiners ee ad Se ag Party can win in tho State and pee ares * : ee Ki Des | J yatko tent a Kidder, ovens eagle te ne | thereby m tw I } f : Moine a and | act il planist r he found t walle amused Naglatoun in 1 a L Ku Klux f * white wife in the mayi's apartment , | stills and hundred ke to the Civil +t in grappling with the problema of PROHIBITION opera ‘ | Appropriate Cash aid’ taste Maeee, pis BSD ON le a 70% th aly se > 2 for Stadium Line SEES be fete SO SPA I ane CE ee eee ‘ | | An appropriation of $711,000 to con RIDER CRIURD | Law, and Joudly condemn anyone | on the tion agent fost | the Montlake bridya yt : t f them is a hard s 8 who temperately suggests the | of them are » hard § i . The Volstead Law {s making us Robber Displays elie a Cena ge DAS Se Meee well as can be bums Hy b) | @ bation c hypocrites. t is sim- | e Millinery Taste and moral quest ee | ite eas This ‘odes in tak Uae: th ieintnrs cont 1 Miss Evelyn Cuddy, tory of this « wi = 4 attorneys and nd Minery robbe s lyn y moonst Vhen anyone cr rz Liberty by lame primarily P bootleg tions under the Civil Rights Law hats ar « they were met frarfKly and brave | on They have wos reported Monday | 2 ally make them he was promptly accused by hon- | of dates were aver: Hinid it tha best restaurant a leason or two! “a hg oei aide oln and Wilson. | bolled to the top as a sort x ; behead ge Nei Cara le. a ines Mae : one of the lar t . 5 Volstead Law as any fanatic ev » of the Reconstruction | commission Co., 4 in Greenwich Village. | when it comes to eatin or aie cin coated. (ie él Sabteatsfeperude like the tern ave, Monday mght ir! Not Lot For Lotus a bush carrots |potami in th : Mr. Jefferson supp ae was, But between the combina , of wating to go back to | % is 3 s broke open the's re eas « fact and a bale of hay eve: Al Barr wicad slavery “Ordinance of 1187," pro- carpet-baggers of a genera 2 ARO. carry off the fruit average frequenter of tion of fanatics and bootleggers em. When anyone ve ==NATIONAL FURNITURE CO. 2 hibiting slavery in the Northwest “ Territory, against the protests o | The real responsibility rests on the shoulders of honest fanatics and tho Volstead Law and the reaction- | Law could be improved, he 1s just 10 slave-holding power of that | the memb f Congress who look Wise lor idasinngnn aries who are against the Prohibl- | as wrongly accused by the fanatics | * ticks . Credit for All— No Interest Always Featuring the Newest in Homefurnishings time, Mr. Lincoln supported the t took over to them for support. tion Amendment ftself, there is no | of today of wanting to go back hing slay 13th Amendment abol ten years for Reconstruction day t zed body ste on middie | to the sal on system. The saloon ery altogether. Hoe posed a in the North and E und, There the Democrat as an inatitution in this country ction the Recons to give way to common senss ‘ 4 stand today. dead as the Czars of Russia fercement Acts contemplated n Kings of France, It wit | * * be hoped i wil Theddeun Stevens « that long in this generatio! ith and West, FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW never be revived. VOLSTEAD LAW | MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE leaders of his o' thelr extre PLATFORM 3 they ane t, because of the sins of the Ww assorted taupe mohairs. No pen- alty, here, for deferred pay- ments ; we have only one price, and that is the price you pay! ! 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Hoe realized that tho Volstead Law, hastily drawn at the close of tho World War, went as far beyond tho Intent of the 18th Amendment as tho old Civil Rights Law in Reconstruction times went beyond tho intent of tho antislayery amendments. 6 OR 6 PER CENT Having served on federal juries and watched the working of the Volstead Law at closo range, it ts my ,honest conviction that if the Volstead Law should be so amend. ed as to raise the alcoholic con. tent as 5 or 6 por cent, Instead of the ridiculous limit of 1 part alco- hol to 199 parts water, not Intoxl- cating to a child, the law would then be taken seriously by all law- abiding men and women and be gonerally respected, If Prosident Wilson's advice to Congress had been followed, it would bo possible for the Prohibition Department to wipe out tho stills and joints whore whiskey, gin and roally ine toxicating Hauors are sold, as the cat majority of people would up: hold such a law in Its entirety and juries would be moro disposed to convict, Respect fofother laws would be enhanced Instead of low ered and the whole country would ho better off, | equally consctentic citizen. President | Law in this country. Sena tor Sumner of Maana Ward Beecher and h ter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wen: deil Phillips, and many sincere God-fearing men and women Aboll- | Uonists, declared onpenly they | would not obey the Fugitive | Slave Law of 1850, or the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred | Scott case; on the ground that both were cont ¥ to personal liberty and Individual conscience Even Mr, Lincoln himself refused to abide by the Dred Scott decision and severely criticized Chief Jus- | tice Taney, who delivered the opin- fon of the court. Today ‘thero are just os many us citizens who | feel the samo way about tho Vol | stead Law, For when a part of a law declares something to be a | fact which is commonly known to bo falne, whether {t be the Slave Law or the Volstead Law, it causes such feeling ainst the whole law as to make effective enforcement impossible. Unfortu nate! Wrong! But a condition that must be faced. Tho Volstead Law should be enforced because It is the law, But wo should not hesitate to advocate openly a chango {n tho law when expert ence has #0 clearly shown the need, EXTREMISM BREEDS REACTION The brewers, distillers and sa- loonkeepers by their course when dn political power, caused a renc- tion and did more to bring on Na- tional Prohibition than the regular Prohibitionists and Anti. Saloon | League combined, Just as the slave owners and traders of the Cotton States while they were in the saddle from 1850 to 1860 and trying to force African slavery | into Kansas and free territory, did | more to bring on Abolition than all tho Abolitionist orators and pamphleteers put together. Later, Thaddeus Stevens, Ben Wado and Roscoe Conkling, by thelr extrem: ram, Ca sod another reaction which soon mado the 16th Amondment @ dead lotter, But they were no moro oblivlous to stato rights, or fanatical in their support of tho carpot-hag governments in the South than Senator Sheppard of Texas, Congressman Upshaw of Goorgia and the Southern Prohible fionists are today on the subject of the Volstoad Law and federal enforcement in the North, ADV in the past, the chief her extreme ve lost all sense of propor 2 completely as Tenino and Trotzky did after the Ru lan Revolution, and Robes- pierre and Danton after the French Revolution. In various parts of the country they condone illegal searches of private homes, shoot- ing into automobiles of Innocent people, pimcy and ‘even murder, if done in the name of the Vol stead Law. Tho ‘miscarriages of Jus- tice which occur dally all over the country are creating more Bolshev- ists and Anarchists than all the viet agitators hero from Russia, DEMORALIZING CONDITIONS By maki the uso of claret, sherry and even beer in the priv- of a man's own home a crime; ma ing technical criminals out of men and women who are not criminals at heart; tho fanatics havo unconsciously brought in thelr train the more eas!) arried moonshine fla and narcotics, as well laws—a condition so demoralizin to so many men and women, bo: and girls, that a reasonable modi fication of the Volstead Law 1s tho greatest economic, political and moral need of the present day, Tho Volstead Law Js dally making dishonest men and graft- ers out of previously honest men, as fast as tho public gambling houses did twenty-five ye r§ ago, It comes closer home to more peo- plo in their daily lves and the lives of thelr children than any other problem in the country, CRIME WAVE The wave of murder, banditry and other crimes of violence, which has engulfed the country since the passage of the Volstead Law has been largely caused by the widespread hatred for law and order engendered by the passage of a law, which a majority of the people in some sty 6 and a large minority in all the others, regard 9 equally oppressive and tyran: nical asx the American Colonists regarded tho Stamp Laws and the Tea Tax passed by the English Parliament. Many imagino that they have the samo moral ground for ovasion or forcible resistance to tho Volstead Law, which the mombers of the “Boston Ten Party” felt that they had toward unjust tax laws, George IIT and the Lord North Ministry were no more blind to the best interests of the British Empire than Mr. Vol stoad and his associates were to | tho cause of genuine temperance. IVETSIOMLIN 5 & general disregard for all t part shall we play 1° Let us t we can in the }fm te and national ? tics toward adopting platfors k to come in # which take a definite stand on i EX- live questions of the day. Inst) of dealing with Greece and Haw, and matters about which there 4’ no controversy, and loading ‘Sa platform with a lot of generalitieshe. eulogies of Democrats and crith ‘i cism of Republicans, as wo did aq the convention in New York last June, we should deal Measures which the thinking about today, We should also have the political courage te = & 4 take a stand in favor of ame ( a@ law, which would send to Mow Neil's Island both Thomas Jeffers son and Georgo Washington, for What they had at Monticello and | Mount Vernon. Win or lose, the Democratic Party would have ag- gressive instead of half-hearted | support. As Mr. Lincoln and the Republican Party of his time stood midway between John Brown the raiding fanatics at one ex- treme and Jefferson Davis and the slavery interests at tho other, so ud stand impartially between the Vol Democratic Party today s stead fanatics on the one hand and the whiskey interests on the other, CANDIDATES Then nominate candidates for President afid Vice-President whose economic and political views agree in fact as well as in name, John W. Davis with Al Smith as his running mate would have been a logical ticket, with great strengin in the Bast. Tho nomination o McAdoo and Bryan would have been consistent, with great strengt? in the West. But the Democratif Party cannot win by sidesteppig the Volstead Law, the Leaguo Nations and the Ku Klux issu and then nominating — candidir) whose viewpoints are as far api as those of Dayts and Bryan, Thelr nomination did to the Demo- cratic Party what the nomination of Coolidge and La Follett on the" samo ticket would have done to the Republican Party. Bryan a seared away tho East and Davia tho West, CONCLUSION The Democratic Party should — cut loose from fusions with La Follotte and other part and face tions of parties, It should go it alone, A short and clear-cut plate form on a vo issue like tho Vole steud Law, will do more to vor tho party's next nominee to th White House than all the harmony conferences of factional leadera from New York to San Francisco,