New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-04
Call To-day's Marching
Host "a Volunteer Mob,
Desecrating Fourth by
Perverted Patriotism
Motive Branded
Insult to People
Half Million in Line, In
Guiding 10000 Wom-
en-, Promoters Predict

While the half-million pledged pa
raiders were considering final instruc-
tions yesterday for their anti-prohibi-
tion march up Fifth Avenue this after
noon clergymen and the International
Reform Bureau were directing bitter
attack against the organizers of the
demonstration and those who have
made known their intention of taking
part in it.
Likened to Tories and traitors the
paraders, who will be reviewed bv
Mayor Hylan, were accused of being
the agents Of "pent up passions, of
Goddess greed, of poisonous propa-
ganda, of anarchistlc agitation and of
perverted patriotism"
Regardless of their arraignment by
church authorities the marchers will
assemble at Washington SQUARE and
start up Fifth Avenue at | o'clock. dis
handing at Sixtieth Street Frank c.
Drake, parade director, will head the
line. Detachments of the American
Legion, the United American War Vet
Grams and the Veterans of FOREIGN
Wars and more than 10000 women are
expected to march.
Anarchists, Says DR.. Crafts
DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts, superintendent
of the international Reform Bureau.
speaking at the Waverly Congre cation
al Church of Jersey City Yesterday
afternoon, called the anti-prohibition
forces anarchists and law-breakers.
Another bunch of anarchists will
make up the prohibition parades
IN IN. New York and Jersey City" he said.
ut would be interesting to see the
roster of names and find how many are
foreign and how many have been ar
rested for lawbreaking. OF course.
they have right to agitete for repeal
Of prohibition by the same long legal
process under which the amendment
was enacted. A repeal of prohibition
in this century is manifestly impos-
sible. The only effect of the parade
VIII be to encourage violations of the
Constitution. Promoter Drake, who is
getting up the parade. says in justi-
fication of staging it on Independence
Day, we believe our cause, and the
cause which inspired the Boston Tea
Farty are, to some extent at least, of
like nature They are not even as
near alike as tea and whisky. The
Boston Tea Party broke unjust laws,
in the framing of which they had no
part. We haven't even right to
throw over whisky when the drys are
outvoted, and surely the vets have no
right to make, or sell or buy, intoxi-
eating beverages when the people, by
institutional laws, have thrown them
over.
"Mr. Drake is quoted as saying this
parade is to represent New York City's
sentiment on constitutional rrohibi-
tion But New York was represented
at Washington and Albany, not by a
volunteer mob, but by duly elected
Representatives and Senators, in the
submission and ratification of prohibit
tion and in enactm ent Of both national
and state enforcement laws. The pa
rade represents only its own foolish
ness and futility."
Host of "Thwarted Thirsts"
Perhaps the most vitriolic attack
made on "Drake's divisions" was in an
address delivered last night by DR..
Frederick Brown Harris in Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church. in West
104th Street. 1t was he who called
the parade one Ct pent up passions,
thwarted thrsts and poisonous propa-
ganda.
"The Eighteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States
alliance between our nation and the
murderous liquor traffic now outlawed
by the combined judgment of religion
medicine and industry. This last
amendment is the declaration of indie
pendence for untold numbers who
were held in thraldom even worse
than the iniquitous system done tc
death in the fires of the Civil War
whose epitaph is the Emancipation
Proclamation and the Thirteenth
Amendment abolishing human slavery
The enactment of the Eighteenth
Amendment by the orderly and diff
cult processes of agitation, education
and legislation, expressing as it does
the deliberate will of the people OF
these United States, was not slipped
over by fanatics, but was the logica
verdict of an aroused and enlightened
nation, 80 per cent of whom already
were living in dry territory even be
fore the amendment was adopted.
an 1875 there was a minority o1
sulkng Tories who were opposed to the
Declaration of Independence and wht
supported the tyrannical government
of George III. Most of them. how
ever, knew enough to keep quiet or te
leave the Colonies. In 1921 the noisy
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