New-York tribune., 1920-06-30

the government o. ;,iis country is
based. Every time the government
feels bound to prohibit some act of the
general public it is a reflection on
the people and their standards of
morality. How long do you think this
government can survive under such
6 perversion of its institutions?
"The prohibition claim that the
states themselves are enforcing more
drastic prohibition laws than the Vol
stead act If that is the case, then in
Gods name why not leave it to each
state? The states are better qualified
to discharge such q function than is
the Federal government
after the Civil War the Constitu-
ton was amended so as to prescribe
rules and restrictions for the Southern
states. 1t has remained imperative be-
cause the whole issue was solved when
the states were allowed to deal with it
themselves, and the Federal govern
ment was prevented from dealing with
l. by public opinion,
'1f what the prohibtionists are after
is real temperance or real abstinence,
trust to the localities. They will enact
laws that can be enforced The oues-
tion then will be dealt with in an en-
lghtened manner and the theory Of our
gCvernmen mt uph eld.'
When the Irish question was taken
up after Cochran concluded. the com
mttee. by vote of 90 to q. ordered
that the advocates of plank declar-
ing for the recognition Of the Repub-
lie of Ireland be heard first.
Frank P. Walsh and Senator James
B. Phelan, Of California, presented Tie
draft of plank which they asked the
convention to adopt. It's text follows:
Mindful of the circumstances Of
the birth of our own nation, we re-
assert the principle that all govern-
ments derive their Just powers from
the consent of the governed,
Recognition Ia Pledged
eve will support the continuance
of our long established and lawful
practice of according recognition with
out Intervention in all cases where the
peoples of nation, as in Ireland, have
by free vote of tho people set up a
republic and chosen a government to
which they yield, willing obedience
"Therefore, we pledge our party TO
the policy Of according to the elected
government of the Republic of Ireland
formal and official recognition by the
government of the United States. thus
vindicating the principle for which our
soldiers offered UP their lives"
Representative Connally, Demarest
Lloyd and Randolph Wilford Smith op-
posed adoption Of the plank. They
urged that the Democratic platform be
silent on the Irish question. A decla-
ration favoring Irish independence
would involve the United States with
Great Britain and the whole question
was outside the jurisdiction Of polit-
zeal convention, they argued.
Gompers Presents Demands
representatives. of organized labor.
including Samuel Gompers, president,
and Vice President Matthew Woll, Will
, lam Green and Joseph Valentine, pre-
sented a series of demands formulated
by the American Federation of Labor
when the resolutions committee began
its deliberations.
III the Democratic party hopes for
success in the coming election it must
appeal to the people in clear and Ger
tain terms" said Mr. Gomnsrs "The
Republican party formulated what us
believed were its policies, and put forth
a declaration so lacking in principles
OF progress or safety that there must
be somewhere an avenue Of expression
for the forward looking people of the
nation"
The demands Of labor, az presented
by Gompers end the other labor lead
Fight Of He ~age earnars G0w to orsanhs rhs
into trade unions. to select thvti own
representatives and 10 bargain col
leet!voly.
10 maintain the Federal law enacted
by Congress securing to the WORKERS
tce fegll TsGht of voluntary cnssocia las,,-