The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-12
FIGHT FOR A DRY
WORLD STOPPED
Active Assistance, but Not as a
Party, Decided on by Ma
tionaI Committee.
FUTURE POLICY LEFT OPEN.
Lively Debate Aroused by Proposal of
Vigorous Enforcement Campaign.
Say Enforcement Is the Great
est Issue in United States.

Chicago.-A resolution proposing
! that the Prohibition party "have no
| connection with the socalled world
/ work." was rejected by the National
| Committee of the party after a heated
! debate. In its place an amendment
was adopted recommending that indi-
! vidual members of the party be urged
| to give active assistance in the world
! prohibition work through the instru-
! mentality of the prohibition founda-
! tom The foundation is an Organiza-
| ton composed of Prohibition party
members.
The National Committee adjourned
| its two days meeting without outlin-
ing a definite policy for the future of
the party. 1t adopted a resolution au-
thorizing a national convention at
! time and place to be determined by
| the Executive Committee. Speakers
said it should be understood that the
| convention would be held subsequent
to the conventions of the Republicans
and Democrats, and that action taken
| by the Prohibitionists would be de-
! termined to large extent by the
courses pursued by the two major
| parties.
! A resolution was adopted recon-
mending that the party unite with
! other parties when for the good of
! the cause"
! A large part of the discussion over
/ participation in foreign prohibition
| fights hinged on a pecuniary angle.
! Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman; A. q.
/ Calderwood, Minnesota, and others as
| serted that the party would be unable
to obtain funds except on the ground
of carrying on world work. An i'm
preston was prevalent, they admitted,
| that the work of the party in this
country was finished.
Hewson l.. Pake of Sandusky, o.,
chairman of the subcommittee on Res
| olutions, whose report urging OppOsi-
ton to participation in European pro-
| hibition battles was rejected, led the
fight against the amendment, which
vas adopted.
what right have we to go to other
countries and interfere in their do
nestle questions?" he demanded. 1T is
| Internal impertinence on our part"
B. f. P. Prough, Pennsylvania, op-
posed the proposal, asserting that no
activities should be conducted outside
the United States by the Prohibition
party in its own name.
Another tilt developed in the com
mittee meeting over a proposal favor
ing a prohibitive tax on liquors should
rehabilitation be declared completed
and saloons permitted to reopen dur
ing the interim between wartime pro-
hibitiCn and constitutional prohibition.
1t was urged by members that such
action would lay the committee open
to the charge of sponsoring licensing
&C the liquor traffic through taxation.
A resolution was adopted urging re-
peal of the internal revenue act tax
ing liquor as beverage. Another res
olution demanded the immediate
enactment" by Congress of prohibition
enforcement legislation.
DpcluTdllbllS that law tllIplNcihChl
is the greatest issue in the United
States and that the Prohibition party
should be perpetuated with law en-
forcement as the dominant feature of
its policy We're loudly applauded. Re
| plying to assertions that adoption of
| the Eighteenth Amendment has ended
the usefulness of the party, Robert
Patton, Springfield, ILL.,, declared that
Bolshevism and disregard of law con
stitute the supreme issue in the world
today, and argued for vigorous cam
paign by the Prohibition party on the
| issue of law enforcement. PattOn's
talk followed the address of H. L.
Peake. Ohio, in which the speaker said
that the fight is over" and that this
proposition of going to the people on
the question of law enforcement is
rot"