Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-25

for beverage purposes, would be Jus
| ~ guilty of a crime against tho funda.
mental law OF our country ~ though
the Volstead Act has not been repealed
the only difference would be that there
would be no law by which these Grim
| mails could be punished. They would
be violating the 18th Amendment to the
Constitution. but could not be punished
| for doing so
MY answer to paragraph ak is that
| inasmuch as its premises are false, as
have hereinabove shown, because
some law must be passed if the Vol
stead Law be repealed. there Will be no
time tse long as the 18th Amendment
is part Of the Constitution) when
there win not be some supporting Fed
eral legislation.
Your paragraph seven is:
This would mean that the sale of
Intoxicating liquors from Fedrnl
standpoint would go on without any
restriction or restraint, although the
fundamental law of the country says
ii is unlawful"
This paragraph being based upon
your paragraph six in principle Is
equally fallacious with paragraph six
and requires no further answer.
Your paragraph eight states:
Among other changes made by the
Association against the Prohibition
Amendment is the charge that PRO
hibition is the greatest crime breeder
of all time.
l have not seen any of the literature
of the Association against Prohibition
setting up the charge which you uuo&c,
but the public press daily contains many
reports of infractions of the Volstead
Law far graver in import than the in
fraction of the several state laws pre-
vous TO the enactment of the 18th
Amendment.
Your paragraph nine states.
Feeling sure that no one who believes
i'm prohibition and its enforcement will
want to cast their vote for a member
OF the association against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment, whose object is the
notification of the 18th Amendment by
repeating the volstead Act, and that
few patriotic citizens will desire to give
their support TO one who attempts TO
nullify part of our Constitution, I am
writing asking whether you are a MEM
ber Of the association against the Pro-
hibition Amendment"
My reply is mat you have misstated
the position of myself or of any other
member Of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, in that the
association does not. through any of
It's membership, seek to ''nullify" the
Constitution. On the contrary. il seeks
to pursue course granted to il BY
the Federal Constitution itself, to-wIt.
The repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
inent. You and your friends adopted a
perfectly legal course as determined by
the supreme Court of the United States
IN having the Eighteenth Amendment
adopted. Surely in good conscience and
as American citizens you and your
friends viii not deny the constitutional
right (Which YOU have exercised in Sc
curing the Eighteenth Amendment) To
me and my friends in advocating and
working for its repeal. Yes / am a
member of the Association
Your paragraph ten states:
We believe that the citizens of Will
whom you are asking TO elect
you as their mayor are entitled TO this
Will you kindly favor us |
with a reply by Thursday, May 25."
My reply is that inasmuch as Won
have undertaken to inject into the /
pending municipal campaign the sub /
ject OF the repeal of the Eighteenth /
which can. under no pos /
sible circumstances. having anything
whatever TO do with the office of the
mayor of the city of Wilmington, / /
must express TO you my sluprice at
your action. Manifestly, your letter /
makes it apparent that you and your /
friends intend to make my stand on
the subject a matter of comment The
mere right of you and your friends TO do
90 cannot be questioned, and If you
should present my stand ar, fhe sinh