The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-07-15
N. Y. PULPITS THUNDER
AGAINST WET PsRADERS
Constitution and Laws Vigor-
ously Upheld by Metropoli-
tan. Clergymen
PARADE BIG URE
Certain Guileless New York
Papers Fall Easy Victims of
Wet Shell-Gane

The New York City pulpits on
Sunday, July 3, "Consttution-and-
Law Sunday" made. vigorous protest
against the nullifcationists parade
which was scheduled for the follow
ing day, July 4. The New York Tri-
bune of July 4 introduces the story
of the church's Condemnation OF this
unpatriotic parade with the following
statement which in the light OF sub
sequent events is amusing. The Tri-
bune says:
While the half million pledged
paraders were considering final
instructions yesterday for their
anti-proinibition march up Fifth
Avenue this afternoon, clergymen
and the international Reform
Bureau were directing bitter at
tack against the organizers of the
demonstration and those who
have made known their intention
of taking part in it.
This was written on the morning Of
the day of the parade. It will be
noted the Tribune says there were a
half million pledged. to march. By
actual count there were 1922, in
Guiding the more than 900 musicians.
General Drake and his outfit failed
in making formidable showing
against the Constitution but they GER
tainly succeeded in imposing upon
the credulity of certain wet New
York City newspapers. The New
Y York Tribune in justice TO its readers
ought to insist upon knowing what
happened to this "half million pledged
paraders';
But anyway the Tribune story re
ports what some OF the pastors said
in their condemnation OF the Drake
enterprise and American Issue here
with reproduces excerpts from one OF
these addresses which is indicative of
the attitude OF the Christian citizen
ship of the city These pastors voiced
the sentiment of New York's opposi-
ton to this show of rebellion against
the Constitution and laws OF our ma
ton
Dr. Frederick Brown Harris in an
address in the Grace Methodist Epis-
copal Church is quoted as saying:
The Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution OF the United States
dissolves the unholy 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 independence for TN
told numbers who were. held in thral-
dom over worse than the iniquitous
system done TO death in the fires OF
the Civil War whose epitaph is the
Thirteenth Amendment abolishing
human slavery.
"The enactment of the Eighteenth
amendment by the orderly and diff
cult processes OF education, agitation
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 logical
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.
'ln 1776 there was minority OF
skulking tories who were opposed to
the Declaration of Independence and
who supported the tyrannical govern
ment. OF George III. Most Of them
however knew enough to keep quiet
or to leave the Colonies.
"ln 1921 the noisy minority who by
their interest are aligned with the ty-
rannica1 rule of the liquor traffic in
solently propose to parade the streets
of the nations metropolis on the ma
TONS birthday with the avowed pur-
pose of multiplying the constitutional
amendment and defying the popular
will This proposal shows the same
finesse of feeling, the same sense of
the fitness of things, which has char
acterized the cynical and shameless
traffic in the past. Such a celebration
on the Fourth of July is as incongru-
Gus and sphemingly desecr&ing as
celebrating Mothers Day by enter
tanning and honoring in her home a
convicted criminal who had insulted
degraded and robbed her, and who
was still blatant, boastful and defiant.
This Fourth OF July the support
ers of the tyrannical liquor traffic
which has been repudiated by the
new declaration Of independence, the
Eighteenth Amendment, is to be cele-
brated by an organized domestic in
surrection dubbed personal liberty
parade in favor of this tyrannical traf-
fc which has been adjudged guilty of
high crimes by the jury of the Amer
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