Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-29
GROGSHOP MAKES
HYPHENATES Of
THE LEGISLATORS:
Speaker at the Anti Saloon
League Convention Scores
Anti Prohibitionists

indianapolis, June 2S.-"Tho grog-
shop is the hyphen,' said Dr.. Purley
A. Baker, general superintendent Of
the Anti-Saloon league of America,
speaking at the convention of the
league here today on preparedness
Through Prohibition" He called for
all legislators, state and federal, to
come out squarely on this question.
"Of all the great nations" he said,
'there is none whose chief public men
are so timid, not to say downright
cowardly as are ours touching this
aspect of the preparedness policy
They are perfect lions when denounc-
ing the hyphenates, and perfectly
dumb when the thing that makes and
keeps them hyphenates is brought to
their attention.
"The time to close in upon this foe
of humankind is now. Every legis-
lator. every congressman, every Unit
ed States senator, or candidate for the
same. who by word or act gives COM
fort and aid to this traffic should
feel the weight of the swift and heavy
hand of an outraged public at the
ballot box. Any proposition that the
states should decide this matter for
themselves is in the interest OF the
lieuor traffic. National evils are me-.
eradicated by local treatment. we
demand of our national congress that
it at once submit to the several
states for their ratification or rejec-,
ton the pending joint resolution for
national constitutional tprohibition..'
Hughes Fay0rs Probation. !,
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
candidate for president, while on the
supreme bench uttered opinions that
stamp him as being favorable to re-
striction of the liquor traffic" accord
inc to Wayne B. Wheeler, Of Washing
ton. D. c., general counsel Of the
Anti-Saloon league of America. IN
an address to the seventeenth conven-
ton of that organization. .
"The courts" said Mr.. Wheeler,
"have gradually come to- the conclu-
sion that legislation necessary to en-
force statutes will be upheld if the
original statute prohibiting the evil
was legal. Justice Hughes speaking
for the supreme court laid down this
principles 1T Isl well established,
said the justice, that when a state
exercising it's recognized authority
undertakes to suppress what 1t IS
free to regard as a public evil, it may
adopt such measures having reasona-
BILE relations to that end, as 1t may
deem necessary in order to make its
action effective
Mr.. Wheeler asserted that the bur
den-cf pronouncement by the courts,
state and federal, was against the LID
uor traffic Speaking on the subject,
"The Courts Part in the Solution o.
the Saloon Problem" Mr. Wheeler
continued:
Federal laws prohibiting every
phase of the traffic doubtless will be
upheld when our federal constitution
! is given jurisdiction over the sale
and manufacture for sale of intoXlcat-
| ing liquor.
"The court has done more than con-
| strue laws and establish rights. II
has pointed the way to civic duty
| Enlightened citizenship cannot escape
the logic of these decisions,
"1n these days of appeal for patri-
otism and preparedness, let us lister
| to the logic of the court. First kill
the liquor traffic. This will safeguard
| the public health and morals, anc
! protect the wealth and happiness O.
the people 1t will insure the perpe
tuity of great nation, a power or.
dained of God to advance civilization.
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