Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-08
Y0NKER PLAN
GETS SUPPORT
0FFlNANCIERS
Naturalization of Law En-.
forcement is Substance
Of Proposal.

:. OfSSO
Cornwall, N. T.. April 4.-PlAdges
from John d. Rockefeller. Jr., and
others Of financial support Of THE
tionsl prohibition amendment were
announced here tonight by William
H. Anderson, head Of the Anti Saloon
league of New York, at the annual
state conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mr.. Anderson, in the course of an
address in which he formally opened
the campaign Of the Allied Citizens
of America to ~nationalizc the method
:Yonkers wide publicity, declared that
in New York alone :oe.0 persons
are back of the movement to intro
duce it into other states.
Explaining that the Allied Citizens
OF America was incorporated two
years & Ito uphold American idea1s
and the United States constitu-
ton. and particularly the eighteenth
amendment" Mr.. Anderson declared
ton all yer the United States the
successful experiment in practical
civics" which. he said, had been made
in Yonkers. his home city. In telling
Of its results there he said:
There have been raids. arrests,
seizures of large quantities of liquor,
explosions from tho police force for
connivance With violators. indtct-
mcnts, convictions. fines and prison
sentences. City officials nc longer
are indifferent or defiant. and there
sentiment for law observance. New
York pays+$50.00 900 a year Tor law
enforcement, and the Allied Citizens
Of Yonkers have merely insisted that
it's police and civic authorities shall
earn their salaries. The situation is
tar from perfect, but there is motion
aud in the right direction.
"Protesiarts, Catholics. Jews and
those Of other religions in Yonkers
who reverence order, country. human
ity and God arc united iii the effort.
Under, the plan evidence is obtained
respecting violation Of the prohibition
law for the sole purpose of publishing
it in order that citizens may, know
the degree and kind OF enforcement
they are getting from their public OIL
tic1als in return for their taxes.
Everyone pays; taxes in some form.
and they have a right to know what
they get for their money. .. 81,
We have always refused to turn
lover any evidence to be used to se-
cure convictions: that Is the very es-
sence Of The plan. Publicity in the
form of the organizations sffidavits
telling Of liquor infracttons helps Of
ficials who are doing their best, ana
enables the wedding out Of those who
wink at violations. Thus, as We have
operated in Ionkers. we shall enable
the people Of any community to ex-
ert the sanle pressure. Of public opin-
ion to force officials to their duty
: MIR. Anderson said that h Allied
Citizens was designed to supplement
the Anti-saloor league, and that there
. are mo initiation lees, dues or assese-
mentS.' He declared the records OF
the Anti-Saloon league would show
that more than 500. 900 persons in the
United States are regularly contribut.
the Allied Citizens. he said, will BE-
started by the. league this, week in
every state. No salaries. he said, are
paid to any Of it's officials.
Quoting from Mr.. Rockefeller's
pledge. he read: THE question Of the
wisdom and propriety Of national pro.
hibition is no longer. at issue, having
been decided by the adoption of the
federal constitutional amendment and
sustained by the United States SUI
preme court. 1t is now the lawr Of the
land, predicated upon q constitutions,
amendment. which is the most solemn
form of legislation possible under oul
form. of government.
TO fail in the observance and en-
forcement Of such a law strikes at the
very foundations of orderly govern
ment and is in that way an attack
upon civil liberty, for in a republic
there can be no freedom for the in
ditidual if there is no respect for ant
enforcement OF the laws which have
been enacted in the mannef pre-
scribed by the people them selves il
the constitution which they have
, adopted.
"While the general legislation of ma,
ton and state determines the condi'
titns under which enforcement mus
be carried on, yet In the last analyst,
5 enforcement is q local matter AND
must be worked out IN every locality
, and the people. OF each locality mus
/ face n assume their responsibility
) for the. creation And maintenance o!
4 public sentiment that will supper
local officials in enforcement and re-
ouire them to do their duty.
THE process Of. public education
: which is essential to the enforcement
Of any law which is singled out To-
. organized attack ana efforts at modi
ification, will result ia a better public
!. comprehension of the Importance o.
! upholdins the sanctity Of law in gen
eral. 1 take occasion to express m,
5 feeling Of the vital importance Of Law
observance and law enforcement Al
essential to the pArnaAnenoe Of GU,
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