The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-02-05
Kenosha Attorney Bitterly
AssaiIs Eighteenth Amend
ment in What is Consider
ed Opening Campaign.
DENIES CONGRESSIONAL BEE
Local Attorney Gives Out Carefully
Prepared Statement Declaring He Will
Oppose Any Candidate in Favor Of
Enforcement of 18th Amendment.

Attorney Calvin Stewart, prominent
in the local Democracy, several times
candidate for Congress in the First
Wisconsin District, and believed to be
now in grooming for another race
for the office, gave out sensational
signed statement today bitterly attack
ing the eighteenth amendment and de-
claring his intention to fight any can
didate for legislative Office in favor Of
the enforcement of prohibition.
Stewart has not announced his can
didacy for Congress, but well informed
politicians take his statement today as
feeler'' to see how it will set with
the rank and fle of the Democracy. In
his statement Mr. Stewart says:
For more than 5000 years prior
to 1888, the various peoples Of the
world had tried to form a government
based upon laws which would guar
antee to the people in its broadcast
sense, liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness.
These governments had swung from
one extreme to the other, from monarch
to mob, from autocracy to democracy,
from communism to license and mob
ocracy.
Provisions of Constitution.
Finally there appeared group of
real statesmen who assembled at Phil
adelphia, and after great labor and ex-
traordinary wisdom framed and gave to
us our constitution, which was intend
ed to be the fundamental law for tho
government Of the United States of
America. BY the constitution, each
state in the Union is guaranteed a Re-
publican form Of government. The CON
stitution provided for an executive and
a Legislative body SENATE and House
of Representatives to be elected by
the people, who are required to do
just two things.
Gay To create judiciary.
(b) To recognize certain inherent
individual rights.
And, also it has been the general Gus
tom to only mention three departments
in the division of cur government,
namely, executive, legislative and iu-
dicial. / maintain that the individual
rights guaranteed by the constitution
is as essential as the fourth leg on
horse.
MIR, Stewards Construction.
Many years ago, while al candidate
for Congress, in speaking Of one of the
principal duties of our representative
in Congress, said: ''He should pre-
serve the constitution by zealously
guarding it and should prevent extrav-
aganee; by never forgetting that mod
Grafton and frugaaity is essential in the
conduct of public as well as private af-
fairs, and that the blessings Of free
government can only be maintained by
frequent recurrence to fundamental
principals" then could see as is
now plainly manifest; that the modern
tendency is to pay little attention to
he fundamental law which has made
this country great and prosperous
For, inasmuch as our constitution
has provided for us the only standard
form of government ever devised by
men, we should be extremely careful
not to weaken it, or annul its provi-
slons by an enactment of new amend
ment, which is wholly unnecessary and
which nullifes that part of our consti-
tuition which guarantees TO the people
certain inherent individual rights.
Article 8 Of the constitution
reads as follows: tsThe enumera.
ton in the constitution of certain
rights shall not be construed to de-
ny or disparage others retained
by the people,
Man 5 Personal Rights.
it you can deny man the right to
make or take anything that contains
more than one-half Of one per cent Of
alcohol, you may deny him the right to
make or take most anything else which
he has considered he had a right to
indulge in, in the pursuit Of his own
happiness. 1t viii only be necessary
to procure enough paid reformers,
fanatics or crusaders to deny man the
use of tobacco in any form, to deny
the women right to marry until they
are twenty five years, or any other age
that may suit the fancy Of these fana-
tics, or any other unreasonable thing
which might become popular by con
slant agitation.
Drifting from Constitution.
As an illustration Of how far we are
drifting from the constitution, atten-
tion may be called to the fact that the
constitution provides that all govern
mental work aside from the branches
aforementioned should be performed by
the heads Of the department. or their
subordinates; instead Of that, our gov
eminent, both national and state, from
year to year, is being turned over to
boards and commissioners, who without
any responsibility to the people prae-
tically control our legislation, execute
and enforce the Laws, thereby subyert.
ing the constitution, spending billions
of dollars. oyeYtaxing and burdening