Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-01

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war, and il the League of Nstioni
will save the world one such war, .,
we have witnessed, in a thousand
years it is worthy Of all our efforts
to establish it.
AS / have said, I stand for the in.
tegrity of the 18th Amendment Ny
opponent has not stated his position
with c~learness. He has simply indul-
ged in some general comment upon
prohibition, manifestly designed more
to arouse prejudice than to contribute
to an enlighted discussion Of the
subject. The trouble with the Judge
now is that he has met the fate the
colored soldier bet, who encountered
his first German she'll. He went out
into No-Man's-Land all alone, saw
nothing but the dead about him, and
being a typical dark became some
what frightened in the presence Of the
dead and rushed back of the lines.
While hurrying to get away, he came
upon a little saloon; he has seized the
knob of the door and was ready to
open it and run in when, as he des-
cribed it: Dat German shell hit dat
little salon and blowed it right out
of my hand" When Judge Priest an
nounced his candidacy he talked as
one Selling the knob Of the saloon
door ready to open it for a distressed
country, when a bomb shell from the
Supreme Court of the United States
hit his little saloon and "Blowed 1t
right out of his hand" I had assum-
ed that he was lawyer enough frankly
and publicly to state what the Chi
cago lawyer stated at the end Of his
fight, this: The fight is LOST, but he
still talks as one who, if not having
hope himself, wishes to inspire it in
others.
But plainly the situation is this,
there canot be within any part OF
the nation the legal sale of ~intoxicat-
ing liquor of any kind or character
or under any name as long as the
18th Amendment stands unrepealed.
The Amendment expressly prohibits
the manufacture and sale of all in
toxicating liquors but the Supreme
Court has explicitly held that
prohibition is binding upon Congress
and upon all of teh states, and that an
act Of Congress designed to permit
what the constitution expressly for
bids would be null and void, hence
if Judge Priest stands for the sale
of liquor without the repeal If this
Amendment he favors either the null
ification or evasion Of the funda-
mental law of the land. The public
should demand to know whether he
stands for either. If,he stands for the
repeal of the amendment then I join
issue with him upon that, and so
joining l appeal to every citizen to
support me and to do SO upon the
record made under the saloon policy
and under the prohibition policy, I
challenge the voters of this and every
community fairly and i~mpartially to
consider the conditions which pre-
vailed under the saloon policy and
those which have prevailed since. In
country and city the story is the
same. With the closing of saloons
have come the closing of inebriate
hospitals, the emptying of pals, the
clearing of criminal dockets in
creased saving by all classes, a gen.
eral improvement Of social and moral
conditions. By the sign of what the
saloons did and what their absence
has meant, l again assert that / stand
for the integrity of the 18th Amend
ment, without repeal, notification OIL
evasion.
l shall make this race upon my
record as a citizen, upon the things
for which / stand and such ability ant
integrity as l have to advocate them
/ shall make it without the expendi
ture directly or indirectly Of a singh
dollar above the modest limit fxet
by law. I could not if + would, ant