The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-11-03
NATIONS IDEALS
ARE IN DANGER
Rev. DIR. Martin Says AM
erica's Ideals Are Now
at Stake Here.
"HEW TO THE LINE


force the law"
This was the message of the Rev.
Edward Burns Martin, pastor of the
Park Avenue M. E. church in a stirring
sermon at the Sunday evening service
of his church on the question OF law
enforcement, in which he came out
flat-footedly in support of the en-
forcement, of the law and the preser-
walton of American ideals. 1t was
bitter arraignment of those who stand
idly by and declare that the law
including the Eighteenth Amendment,
which is, according to his statement,
as much part of the law of the
land as any other statute cannot be
enforced.
The minister declared that America
was facing a crisis; it must either
AmericaniZe those who came to its
shores or be Europeanied by them.
This, he declared, was the question at
issue and law enforcement was the
only method by which American ideals
could be saved for posterity.
Treat All Alike.
Reverend Martin took as his text
the following apt verse, Ezra, VII, 26:
"And whatsoever will not do the law
of thy God and of the king, let judg-
ment be executed speedily upon him,
whether it be unto death or unto ban
ishment, or to confiscation Of goods or
to Imprisonment" He emphasized the
fact that the same reverence for law
and order which was shown in this
order of Artarxerxes centuries ago
must be maintained if American ideals
do not become thing of the past.
SIN Kenosha, we have all the fifty
seven varieties of citizenship" be de-
clared. "Some who first saw the light
on the other side Of the ocean are more
truly Americans than some who are
born here. A man, whether he comes
from one part of the world or another
who has no respect for American
ideals, has no place here. Ameri-
canism means neither license, that oft
abused term personal liberty nor
evasion of laws; it means those fine
! ideals typifed in Washington and Lin
coin and Roosevelt. An American is a
particular breed; he stands for the
things the Declaration of independence
stood for, he stands for the Constitu-
ton Of the United States and he is
willing to give over some of his rights
in the interests of others"
At Parting of the Ways.
Gin Kenosha," he continued, "there
! is a tendency to give over these ideals
of real Americanism to be replaced by
the ribaldry which characterizes Eu-
rope. Is Europe coming to Kenosha
to be Americapized or to Europeanize
Kenosha? That is the question we
must solve"
The speaker was applauded when he
commented on the fact that the pres
ent district attorney had shown tend
ency to respect his oath of office and
enforce the law. eve need not law
compliance but law enforcement" he
declared. at will take men with iron
in their blood but I believe we have
them"
j In a similar vein he praised the
stand taken by Chief Justice W. H.
Taft, who he declared in the days be-
fore prohibition had been a man, who
probably took something forN his
stomach's sake. He pointed out, how
ever, that when the eighteenth amend
ment was written into the law of the
land and "O.K.'d" by forty-six states,
Chief Justice Taft had declared chat
we must enforce it and we can"
The main trouble, according to the
speaker, was that policemen and men
in Office did not care to enforce the
law. "Why not get some other folks
in their places?" was his suggestion.
In closing his address, the Reverend
DR.. Martin pledged himself to stand
for law enforcement and for all those
things which would preserve inviolate
4 the ideals and principles upon which
America was founded, one of the chief
of which was respect for the law of
the land.