The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-30
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HERE'S 4 BLovIAT0R.
 There are people who despise small things, in politics as wen as other mat ters. and are always looking high. The mitch your wagon to a star. idea of Emmerson's is about their style. Per haps 1t Is good idea to have high ideas. even if one cant always live up to them, and possibly it is alo a good plan to make loud promises. especially in politics. Promises and platforms are only intended to get into ofice on some one has said. and perhaps the man who promises most will "get there Ell"
 Here. for instance. Is our friend Ed mund W. Chain. who has been nomin- ated on the Prohibition ticket for Pres ident. If am elected President of the United States" says Mir. Chain, T will have Congress which win pass prohibition law. and if there are any communities that refuse to obey the law, and the civic authorities are un- able to enforce it. shall use the power conferred upon me by the constitution and call out the militia. the standing army and the navy and enforce prohi- bition on every inch of territory under the American flag"
 Now how is that for high? To begin with. he doesn't propose to depend on the American people to elect 6 Con- gress to suit him; not bit of it. That is old fashioned, out of date. obsoles- cent if nst absolutely obsolete In his estimation. and he will have none of 1t. What he proposes to do is to ::have a Congress" that will carry out his or- ders. Just what sort of obstetrical op- eration he proposes to adopt and car " out we do not know. but that is probably mere detail He is going to have Congress. or hell knowSthe reason why. That he is going step beyond Roosevelt, or Hoke Smith, or Conner, or any ofthe rest of the exec utives is true. but he's plainly man of big ideals.
 And see what he is going to make his Congress do; 1t shalI pass Ma tional prohibition law. such as he wants. If 1t fails he will probably dis charge 1t and have" another. And when he gets his law enacted he Is go- ing to enforce if from Arostook to San Diego, and from Fort Sumter to Yukon. There'il be no drinking on the sly when he and his Congress get busy. He'll call out the army and the navy, the militia and the State troops to keep folks dry. If necessary he'll put himself at their head and march to victory or death. ThereIi be dry times in this old country of ours when Chifin gets busy.
 "Fortunately for the country" as The New Haven Register puts 1t. 'the possibility that Mir. Chain will ever be President of the United States. al- ways hopefully remote. is made still more so by talk like this. Evidently he has not considered that the size and strength of militia. army and navy which he would need for carrying out his plan of enforcing prohibition Ion every inch of territory under the Am erican flag" might be some what larg- CT. as conditions are at present, than would be needed for the subjugation of the world. MT. Chafln. proposing to have a military and naval force suf- ficient to force prohibition on a thirsty country. calls for an enlargement which t-Hobsons Hobson, and in his temper of using 1t he makes the big stick look like vertiable straw.
 If he would commend himself and his candidacy to the franchise of the thinking people of the nation, Mr. Chafin would do well to obtain a copy of Mir. Taft's views on the passage of laws unsupported by the majority of the people. and study 1t. as Mrs. Part ington suggested "contentfyely"