The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-03-22
FRANCE
URGES new PARTY
TOFIGHT DRYLAWS
Wet Plank Chief Plank in His
New Republican Liberal
Organization.

WARRINGTON, March 22.-De-
daring that both tho Republican and
Democratic Parties arc "as decadent
as the issues which first quickened
them into being" Senator France,
Maryland, a Republican, to-day in a
speech to the Senate outlined the
platform Of a party he said would re-
store American liberty.
France called mis- party the "Repub-
Hcan Liberals"
One of the principal planks in the
liberal platform is for repeal OF tho
Prohibition Amendment. On this
point France said:
I'VE urge the repeal of the Bigh-
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
and a reconsideration by the people
of the great question involved in it
under conditions which will insure an
unimpassboned consideration, un-
olouded by the temporary conditions
incident to a state of war and un-
affected by the hysterta and pretu-
dice which were incident TO it's sub
mission at a time when full and free
discussion were impossible.
I'VE recognize the great problem
involved In this question. We admire
the sincerity and zeal wa1tch have
inspired many Of the advocates of
total and drastic prohibition. II it
really be the will OF the country,
expressed in accordance with the
terms and spirit of the Constitution,
that this provision be continued as
part of our fundamental law, we
shall hope for the beneficent results
which its advocates have prophesied.
But We fear to deprive large num-
bers of our people. who sincerely
love our country and its institutions,
OF that which they deem 1t their right
to possess, except under conditions
which safeguard the rights of these
people with scrupulous care
I'VE desire to remove the deep
rooted feeling from the minds of a
large proportion of our people that
there has not been fair play on this
issue. Many of us feel that while the
use OF certain alcoholic liquors should
be prohibited by local option statutes
enacted in accordance with the will
| of the people, the recent measures
adopted have gone so far that they
may, with Justification, be considered
| by some as an undue infringement
upon personal self determination.
BUT whether we believe in total
| prohibition or not, those of us whC
are Republican liberals believe that
any such drastic changes should be
secured only in accordance with or
| derly processes and after a full, free
and unhampered discussion of the is
sues involved, in order that no man
may feel that he lives under an auto
cratic system where all liberty is in
danger"
Other planks in the Liberal plat
form follow, in part:
Operation of railroads by repre-
sentatives of capital, labor and the
public, under Interstate Commerce
Commission supervision; rejection OF
the "iniuuitous" Treaty of Versailles
and Immediate establishment of peace
with Germany; reduction of the higf
cost of living, with economy of Fed
| eral expenditures and reduced taxes
and a navy second to none and {
system of military training, but post,
ponement of immediate universe
training.
Other demands were: Woman suf
frage, a budget system, agriculture
development, Federal employment
agencies, abolishment of child labor
generous compensation" for serviCt
men permanently disabled, and de
velopment of the merchant marine.