The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-03

will find chalked up in all the pentten-
 tiaries. If it is necessary to have pro-
 libtion and force the people to do what
 hey do not want to do then I say they
 Ire not fit for self-government and are
 ready for submission to anarchy. The question is whether. in effort to up- root fancied evil, are going to overturn the whole system and founda- ion of government
 There really were only two theories of government, said the speaker, that of democracy, which rested on trust | md confidence in human virtues. and | that of autocracy, which rested on CO., 1 ercive measures to curb the distrusted popular faculties.
 Substitute for our dem0cratic faith | the coercion that holds a club over peo- pie to make them good he continued, | "and you have destroyed the only con-
 dition of society under which democra- cies must exist.
 We are not proposing that we tear down any constitution provision The eighteenth amendment declares illegal the sale of intoxicating liquors and it declares that the nation and the state shall have concurrent jurisdictions, The federal government cannot enforce that law without a machinery of federal off cials which has never been provided and which it would be almost impossible to employ.
 CAN'T BE ENFORCED This amendment isn't enforced now ard it can't be. It may be enforced in some sections where no amendment was { necessary. just as the fourteenth amendment is enforced in some north ern states where there is no negro question. There is no way in which 1 law can be enforced against the {! judgment of a community.
 Ns"Thasa ladies and capt1ey,en enpatr | as though liquor had been abolished by | this amendment. It has not. The re- suit has been that where the average ! drinker used to be jolly, now he is par | alyzed. He used to touch the bottle | to spur his enterprise, and now he gets
 no further than the bottle, which in it. ] self becomes his enterprise"
 I While Cochran was speaking. Bryan sat smiling in a great plush chair | close behind him, evidently enjoying 1 the flow of the New Workers oratory. The crowd enjoyed it, too, and answered | him again and again with thunders of | applause.
 1 If a man in Oregon can by his vote regulate what I shall drink in New l York" said the speaker, then he can do the same thing with what shall I eat and what I shall wear. And that i; not a just government. That is not l tiilS SoNciulitntf it Nco oi i6 AAo'iS projected by the fathers.
 | T ask you not to vote to bring back
 rum, but to bring back to the localities 1 the right to govern themselves. Let it | lonce be conceded that morality can ] only be enforced with a club by the federal government and where can you stop it? How long will it be. men of l the south, when your treatment of the regro question, the most successful in Al. k xl,k hn same fallacies?'
 CHEERED BY HUNDREDS 1 Hundreds of delegates got up and cheered with the galleries when the orator came to an end. It seemed that | there was a majority. But even the wet leaders doubted whether roll call would show such an enthusiasm for the | wet cause. A large part of the demon stration seemed to be personal tribute I to the eloquence of the veteran New 1 York orator Captain Hohson was one 1 of those who shook his hand and con graduated him on the speech. l Debate on the Irish plank began as 1 soon as the convention had settled down again for business.
 Thomas J Spellacy Connecticutt's member of the platform committee. took charge of the fight for the minority phnk and introduced Representative
 
 1 first speaker. Anchoring his argument 10 President Wilson's principle on self ldeterminatior. Representative Lonergan said to do less than recognize the right i of full self-determination in America would be 10 throw overheard the teach. ings of the partys leader.
 'The principle of self-determination was accepted by all the nations asso- riated with us.'' he continued, and shall ! i. be said that the doctrine now is to be applied to the foe but not to those who have been our friendse'' T l. Duffy of East Liverpool O., took. i up the argument for the minority Irish 1 plank declaring that it seemed to have 1 become apparent that it was impossible | for Ireland to win it's independence by !, the sword.
 PLEADS FOR IRELAND 1 But they have given to the world a noble lesson he continued. They have established a republic by the intelligent | methods of peace and they submit their case to the judgment of the world Shall we say to the Irish people that we are ! not going to recognize their intelligent and peaceful methods. but are going to 1 force them to take the sword and kill l in order to win the liberty they are Abound to have?"
 \ Charles F. x. O'Brien of Jersey City.
 N. J.. another speaker for the Irish
 plank assured the convention that all
 though his state was forced to disagree
 | with the majority on several subjects.
 the New Jersey democrats were willing
 to stand to the last and support the