South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-24

Proctor law. In the language Of Judge Myers:
The subject of the regulation or abolition Of
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
not being inherent and natural right is a nat
ter wholly within the legislative control. and Il
may impose such restrictions prohibitions and
conditions as it may see ht."
Judge Perkins philosophical with a dividend
court IN 1855, decryng prohibition. Judge My
ers, with a unanimous court; Justice Morris Cox,
Jordon and Spencer concurTing overruled Judge
Perkins, and declared in favor of the right of the
legislature to pass a Prohibitory law, in 1912.
That is another difference.
D ELlEF has been asserted in this paper before
ID that the lawyers and saIoon-keepers cheap
quality of legal pablum-while they "straightVay
dream fees in asserting the unconstitution-
atty of the prohibition law, and encouraging
them to contest it,
The Indiana supreme court would need to be
supra-politica and mira judicial to overule the
40 decisions of the United States and state
preme court including Atkinson versus Disher, in
order to go back So years and bless the Of
Mr. Justice Samuel E. Perkins, such q pioneer in
the construction of prohibition legislation, that
without presidents he had 10 follow his own
guess-and guessed wrong.
1t is not what the supreme court will do to the
law that should concern the drys near as much, as
it is what the next legislature will do and whether
or not that legislature will cinch It further by con-
hrming the federal constitutional amendment.
The liquor interests whetting their knives
and sharpening their swords, in conquest &C con-
troll of the next assembly Congressman BaTnhart
and all other Indiana statesmen who voted for the
constitutional amendment at Washington,
slated by these interests for defeat
No consistent believer in the abolition of the
liquor traffic, can consistently fail to support these
men, if they are otherwise loyal-aS long as their
prohibition vote is being made issue against
them.
Furthermore, no consistent advocate of pro-
hbition consistently support candidates for the
legislature whom the liquor interests would send
there to kill or delay confirmation of that amend
ment, for which Congressman Barnhart and the
others voted, when it comes down to them from
Washington
1t is an amendment, no doubt passed by
war congress, and approved by president,
in part, at least, as patriotic measure. We have
abolished liquor IN the army, and we have abol-
ished it in the navy. Let now abolish it
destructive force, a giant curse, and moral and
economic scourge, upon our civil society as well.
We need the engaged IN the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors-the man power
in the army, or IN the workshops, or the
farms these days, fighting or producing things
for the men to fight with-or otherwise useful
We need the grain, and all ingredients, that go
into liquor to fed our armies and allies. There
is no room anywhere in our war economy for such
businesses. They teaches Sane and
women VINO are asked 10 produce 1000 and con-
serve it; who must conserve fuel that none need
suffer; have a right of protest against the food
that they produce directly or in relief Of other
foods and against the fuel that they save, going
into such damnsble rot that involved in the liq
trade.
\ MOTHER thing When you fight the liquor
a traffic in America you directly fighting
the kaiser. 1t IS the political strong right arm Of
the German-American alliance for long Viii
helms political machine here in America-the BIZ
partisan power through which he has exercised
certain propagandizing control many con-
gress and state legislature and the citadel of much
pro-German propaganda even to this day.
Ninety percent cf the brewers of the United
States are Germans or of quite immediate Ger
man descent. The kaiser himself IS heavily In
terested IN several American breweries-nOtably
those of Milwaukee, St. Louis and several in the
east-the powers behind the alliance
Ii has been their business to reward parties; to
punish parties; to provide candidates; to elect
candidates; to reward officials to punish officials
Saloons have been the agencies through which
they have gained their political control and eXer
cised domination
You regret the influence Of German teachings
in our public schools The saloon IN politics IS
the godfather the American brewer the father,
and Prussianism the grandfather of it,-and It Is
only one of the baneful, Misunderstanding Infiu-
ences that have worked upon through this
channel.
The "plotters of Potsdam" would have the
brewers of America consume every nugget OF coal
and despoil every kernes Of grain that produce.
if they could, and then pour the damnable stuff
down the necks of our soldiers to their and to
the nations ruin.
The conduct of German breweries and saloon
keepers IN the vicinity of the army camps and
cantonmetns is submitted IN proof. / he liquor
traffic IS not only Americas greatest enemy IN
fsrual btTf allv 70 our greatest enemy Interna-