Omaha daily bee., 1921-12-31

brings pressure TO bear acts auto
} cratically." Mr.. Beveridge continued
Mere Rubber Stamp"
by the same token, a senator who
yields TO such persuasion becomes :
mere rubber stamp" the speaker
said. "A senator who disapproves !
treaty and yet votes for il because
submitted by a president OF his po.
ltical party is conscious be,rayeI
OF the republic.
"From the foundation of our
government to the present hour, nc
alteration OF treaty was ever made
by the senate which. in time, was
not seen by everybody TO have been
prudent, and essential. Neither has
any treaty ever been rejected by the
senate, which, in time, was not seen
to have been unwisc and harmful to
American interests"
Turning to foreign propaganda
(which is being conducted right now
with reference to the doings of the
Washington conference" Mr.. Bcver-
| idgc said:
Prudence Needed.
'"Thc general opinion today may
be reversed tomorrow, and yet, If
senator's act upon temporary, propa-
ganda- manufactured clamor today,
they may be cursed tomorrow by the
very same public, then awakened,
for having sacrificed American in
terests.
"If foreign political association is
to be our future policy, let us at
least acts like prudent and sensible
men and women"
Civilization cannot exist without
law and law is useless unless active
ly effective, Judge Kimbrough Stone
OF Kansas City told the association
yesterday.
THE great agency which makes
law effective is respect for the law
by everyone. This respect can be
compelled from such as do not will
ingly accord it. There now exists,
in this country, the need to enforce
respect for the law.
Laws are enacted to control ex.
isting or apprehended conditions.
Unless they are enforced they con-
troll nothing. An unenforced law is
not only vain thing, it is a danger
Gus thing.
Disrespect for Law.
Recent happenings evince dis
respect for law and defiance of It
which urge watchfulness and action.
Kansas enacted the so-called indus
trial court law. I am not now con-
sidering the policy of that law. 1t
may be very good or very bad. The
legislature enacted it and the highest
court sustained it. As such, it
should be obeyed by all within that
state. Alexander Howat and his fol-
lowers, among the miners of Kan.
sas. do not find this law to their !
liking. 1t is entirely within their
legal rights to test its validity in the
courts. But they are openly advo-
eating and practicing disregard and
defiance of it. This is "a direct ehal-
lenge to the will and power of Kan
sas to enforce its laws.-
An instance of defiance of law
occurred in Wisconsin, where a set
tlement, mostly foreign born, foci-
bly, resisted enforcement of the ma
tional prohibition law. Several men
were shot before the situation
quieted.
"All Thoughtful Americans should
concern themselves with the prob
ems of immigration. There are
classes of immigrants we can well
10 without. They confound license
With liberty; they are not willing to
accept our institutions; they often
,eek to substitute their own ideas
ind ideals of government, by fo-
nenting discomfort and advocating
lehance of and resistance to exist
ng law. They herd to themselves
With no desire to ningle with the
American mass.
Charity at Home.
1T is very fine to regard America
IS the asylum for the oppressed of
III lands, but it is about time we
transferred some Of our solicitude for
he oppressed of other lands to the
preservation of those ideals
md institutions which have protect
d our own people from oppression.
But more. dangerous kind of
,iolation is subterranean sapping.
The most pronounced existing in
tance of this is the violations of the
statutes. There can be
title doubt that those statutes are
lot being effectually enforced. 1t
S high time that they were. 1t is in
10 sense a question of prohibition or
The policy of pro-
libition-whethei it be good or be
,ad-is not involved. That policy
las been and is settled and, in my
will never be reversed.
1t any rate. congress has passed
avs for the purpose of executing
md making effective the amend
nent. A man who violates them is