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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1924.
The Fourth Amendment and It's
Defenders"
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mo rogue e'er felt the halter draw with good
opinion Of the law; in the all boot
leggcrs and many who unwittingly sympathze with
their practices united just in chorus of
denunciation Of the anti-iquor-sellng law because
of the opportunity it offers for violation of the
fourth amendment to the federal constitution WHICH
guarantees the right to every citizen to be secure in
his home and person against unreasonable searches
and seizures.
The bootleggers tender solictude for the sanctity
Of the home and its preservation from the so-called
depredations by officers of the law is truly astonsh
ing to those who recall before the law passed
the baleful influence of these bootleggersthen
open saJoonist.--over every family circle in the
land There was not home that wholly escaped
its debasing and destroying force;it crossed every
threshold even more cruelty than the deep shadow
Of DEATH every prison crowded with its victims;
every gallows the altar of it's sacrifices; every
ruined household the scene of its tragedies. On
every street corner it could pre-empt by rentals
that decent business could not afford this degrading
influence waylaid men and women with its Family
Entrance" lure, robbing them Of their senses and
their self-respect as well Of their money. 1t
made every street corner the breeding place and
refuge of thieves far and away the fouest blot on
civilization, for it tainted everything it touched
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
DRYNESS HURTS BUSINESS"
ANATOMICAL PROF. SAYS

DIR. ]. B. McCurrich, professor of
anatomy at the University of To-
ronto, in an address September 8 at
the Canadian Embalmers Association
blamed Prohibition for the scarcity of
bodies furnished to medical colleges
for dissecting purposes. Since Pro-
hibition became effective, DR.. Nc
Currich declared, men belonging to the
class that formerly died destitute
through indulgence in liquor were
now leaving money enough to give
them a regular burial and colleges
rarely obtained any bodies from that
source. He appealed to embalmers to
assist as much as possible in furnish
ing bodies to be used in the scientific
studies and research of the medical
schools.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The accompanying cartoon appearing the Birmingham Age
Herald of date the
law enforcement defense OF the Stanley Willis
Campbell BILL No such has before been raised
the power premises
contraband articles
Not until the sacred calling of booeggers seriously men
aced by this without
made.
Not until hit the boolegger discovered that the sancty
of the home jeopardized by this law
Not until hit boogger discovered the Con-
stuion being undermined by
The best this pecious argument that has
American following editorial from
the New York Daily Mail:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
B E E r PROPOSAL HAS
BEEN TURNED DOWN
BY PRO HIBITION
STATES

The proposal to make an exception
in favor of the brewers in the appli-
cation of Prohibition law has not met
with favor by the voters in recent
years in this country. Such proposal
has been submitted to the voters in a
number Of Prohibition states in the
last few years and without exception
the proposal has been emphatically
rejected. In most instances the ma
jority vote against allowing the re-
turn of beer and wine has been
greater than the majority vote cast
against the traffic as a whole. Here
are the majorities rolled up against
the brewers in states that had by
their own volition adopted Prohibi-
ton:
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

SO, likewise, those charged with
law enforcement can not choose
what laws they will enforce.
The only sound position for
those who favor respect for
law to take is that those charg-
ed with law enforcement must
enforce all the laws, and all
good citizens must obey all the
laws; neither can exercise any
right of choice in this matter with
out placing themselves above the
law. 1t is the part of faithful Of
hcials to enforce and the part of
good citizens to obey them.
Minorities and Maiorities
Another subject closely related
to the topic just discussed that
tends to undermine respect for
law, and which has been a mooted
question in every system of con-
stitutional government, is the
mistaken theories of the relation
and attitude of the minority to
the majority Recently, we hear
much about the rights of the min
ority, as if it had special privi-
lege of not obeying the law be-
cause it is made by the majority.
Our constitutional fathers un-
derstood thoroughly the political
philosophy underlying the rela-
ton of government to individuals
and to minor groups Of individ-
uals. There was nothing in the
doctrine of minorities in relation
to majorities that was not before
them for consideration. They
gave to the world its first solution
of that problem in an instrument
which protects the rights of min
critics, as far as they ought to be
protected, and, at the same time,
left the majority free to carry out
the sovereign will.
"The criticism of our govern
ment, as contrasted with the par
liamentary system of government,
has heretofore been that by it's
organization and structure it is
difficult for the majority will to
express itself freely, rather than
the criticism that the Constitution
was so made that the majority
will could ride rough shod over
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
vERITABLE FLOOD OF
BOOZE PROPAGANDA
Newspapers, Magazines, Letters
Help Nullificationists to Dis
credit Law Enforcement
CONGRESSMAN ELECTIONS
Have in Mind the Next Congress
sional Elections; Hope to
Win Indifferent Voter

Our country is literally deluged with
wet propaganda. Not only is the
publicity attack against Prohibition
being directed by bulletins and maya
zines published by liquor and multi
6cation rganizations,/ but magazines,
newspapers, letters, in large numbers
are criticizing Prohibition, criticizing
enforcement criticizing the Anti
Saloon League, aid ridiculing the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol
stead law. In fact, the most effective
work being done by the qualifications
lists is through wet sympathizers
using agencies which they can in
huence or control.
The one purpose is to influence vot-
ers to elect wet majority to the
next Congress and to the legislature
of the various states in order to re-
peal dry enforcement laws.
Newspapers Try to Show Collaps of
Dry Law Enforcement
ne 1nOSI IhSSiiNS WCdpOuS III the
hands of the nui liicationists, perhaps,
ire the newspapers. which they can
control. Columns are printed con-
-erning bootleggers' activities in an
effort to show that Prohibition law is
unenforceable. Cleverly worded edi-
iorials seek to cast doubt on the
validity of the ratification of the
Eighteenth Amendment, insinuatng
that the ratification was forced by
small minority and that it was never
The intention of the people to prohibit
The manufacture and sale of beer and
wine. News stories giving lengthy
quotations from opponents of Prohi-
bition are so written as to make the
Jaw seem unpopular. Attacks against
the law are telegraphed all over the
country by news agencies, while pub
lie statements or interviews favorable
TO the amendment or its enforcement
seldom are permitted to appear in the
public press. While this may be JUS
tluCu llOiil HSWS just dS
a murder is news and law obedience
is not, it nevertheless gives the i'm
preston that the Amendment lacks
the support of public opinion.
Newspaper cartoons, feature arti-
cles, letters from the people, photo
graphs and even jokes, all unfriendly
to Prohibition, help to create the
illusion that the Eighteenth Amend
ment Is not a popular law.
Magazines that heretofore have
borne the reputation of being friendly
to Prohibition are carrying feature
stories that are sure to be interpreted
as declarations of the so-called I'M
popularity of Prohibition. The edi-
tors of these magazines may insist
that they are presenting conditions as
they exist, but the articles without
exception all have the same weakness
Of not being specific with their facts.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
ADMITS MULTIPLICATION
NOT REPEAL, VETS GOAL
Congressman Kahn Writes SAM
ity Leagues Petition for Dry
Code Emasculation
CAN'T REPEAL AMENDM'T
Admits That People Favor Dry
Policy; Advises That Fight
Be on Enforcement Law

Congressman Julian Kahn of Cali
fornia wrote the form of petition that
is being circulated by the Sanity
League of his state, which petition is
being circulated for signatures to be
presented to Congress asking for tho
repeal OF the Nolstead law. Tho
Sanity League is circulating letter
written by Congressman Kahn under
date of August 5, 1921, to the attorney
OF the League, in which he said:
In my opinion il is not neces-
sary to amend the federal Con-
stitution. Such a course would
take much longer and would be
much more difficult than the
amendment of the Nostead law.
The latter can be done by
simple congressional enactment.
The Supreme Court has held, |
believe, that the will of Congress
in such matters is entirely VALID.
To amend the Constitution would
require a two-thirds vote of the
two Houses OF Congress and rati-
fcation of the amendment by
three-fourths of the states. l am
afraid that in the present temper
of the country it would be impos-
sible to accomplish the passage
and adoption of such an amend
ment. But as | have said above.
the congressional enactment will
be much easier of accomplish
ment.
There seems to be a drift to-
ward greater liberty, especially
regarding light wines and beer.
Congressman Kahn's letter is en-
tightening. 1t reveals the fact that
the immediate goal of the liquor in
terests is notification of the Eight
zenith Amendment, not its repeal.
They are perfectly willing that the
Eighteenth Article remain a part of
the Constitution if it can be rendered
imperative.
His admission of fear that in the
present temper of the country" il
would be impossible to repeal the
Eighteenth Amendment, is an admis-
sion that the vets contention that
the Eighteenth Amendment was put
across against the will of the people
is not we'll founded. If the Eight
eenth Amendment was forced by a
minority as the Sanity League con-
tends it was, why does Congressman
Kahn fear that in the present tenn
per of the country" it can not be re-
pealed? He, like any other intelligent
man, knows that the overwhelming
majority of the people of this nation
are in favor of the Prohibition policy,
but he is right in saying that the
policy can be rendered ineffective by
congressional action. The liquor in
terests are depending upon the wet
vote of the large cities and upon the
lethargy of the dry forces to elect a
Congress that will furnish the bare
majority to amend the Nolstead Act
and thereby nullfy the Eighteenth
Amendment.
1t is up to the voters, loyal men and
women, to look we'll to the congress
sional elections
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

the minority. In view of these
constitutional safeguards, there
can be no excuse for any person
within the domain of this Repub-
lie to hold its laws in contempt;
to disobey them himself or coun-
tenance others to acts of disobe-
dience to them, on the ground
that the rights of the minority
have been disregarded. 1t is the
duty of the minority as we'll as the
majority to obey the law.
"If laws are obnoxious to the
people it is their province to re-
peal them. Until they are re-
pealed they must be observed and
enforced without fear or favor.
"The government will endure
on the rock of law enforcement;
or it will perish in the quicksand
of lawlessness.
"Those who do not believe in
Our government and the enforce
ment of our laws should go to a
country which gives them their
peculiar liberty.
ITO those who come to our
shores to take advantage of Amer
lean opportunities it is becoming
to wave the hands of welcome.
But it is our duty to warn them
to stay away unless they intend
to observe our s-stoms and obey
Our laws.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
Duty is Clear

my duty is clear. AS long as
| am the responsible head of the
Department of Justice the law
will be enforced with all the
power possessed by the govern
ment' which l am at liberty to
call to my command"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
Apathy of Dry Voters

If the liquor interests now succeed
in electing Congress that will amend
the Volstead code so as to permit the
manufacture and sale of beer and wine
it will be because of the apathy of the
dry voters which is just now so ap-
parent in so many congressional dis
tricts. This apathy is the result of
the illusion that pervades some COM
munities that the fight against the
liquor interests is over. Nothing is
further from the truth. There never
was time in the history of the tenn
perance reform in the United States
when the liquor interests were more
aggressive and more alert than they
are at this present time. II the
Eighteenth Amendment is to remain
effective it is absolutely imperative
that every dry voter from now on
take an active, aggressive interest in
the congressional elections of 1922.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

Association, Cincinnati, Aug. 81, 1920
of conduct, and that is obedience
to the law while it exists. :.
"If our civilization will
place such restraints about itself
as to keep it virile and strong in
health its civilization will endure.
If it yields to these false doctrines
of personal liberty, it will go the
way of the nations of the past.
1t is the Law
"The executive de-
partment cannot make the laws.
1t is equally true that it cannot
nullify laws. To refuse or to neg
lect to enforce valid enactment
of the legislative department of
government, or to enforce it me-
chemically or half-heartedly or to
wink at its violation, is without
justification on any sound theory
of government. Those who ask it
or expect it not only contribute
to lawlessness but destroy the
basis upon which their own secur-
ity rests. Our safety and happi-
ness lies in obedience to law by
every man, woman and child
within the domain of our Repub-
lie, and no one can undermine re-
spect for law without being, to
that extent, an enemy to law and
orderly government.
Il am opposed to any system of
government in which the rights
of any individual or. group of in
dividuals depend upon the whim
or caprice or temperamental atti-
tude of any public officials. :.
No Choice of Laws to be Obeyed
or Enforced
"As citizen can not
choose what laws he will obey,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES RINGING
APPEAL FOR REVERENCE FOR LAW
Exposes Falacous Arguments of Those Interests Seeking
Excuse Their Own Infractons of the Dry Law and of
Those People Who Condone Violations; No Middle
Ground Law Enforcement Issue
delivered before the American Bar

delivered before the American Bar
Respect for law is the one
essential fact of Our civilization.
Without it life, liberty and prop
erty are insecure. Without it
civilization falls back to the chaos
Conditioned Upon Supremacy of
Law
al there is one fact
history teaches above another, it
is that the rights incident to
wealth and the rights furnishing
the opportunity to enjoy spiritual,
intellectual, moral and social
things are conditioned upon the
supremacy OF the law.
Erroneous Theory of Personal
y. Liberty
Another subject that under
mines respect for law, especially
prominent at the present time, is
an erroneous theory of personal
liberty under our constitutional
system. This controversy is as
old as government itself. 1t has
been asserted with especial vigor
recently owing to the Eighteenth
Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States and to the
amendments in the various state
constitutions, and because of leg
islation on the same subject by
Congress and the various state
Legislatures. :.
Only One Course: Obedience to
Law
However, when public senti-
ment has crystallized into law,
there can be no question as
to the duty of good citizens with
reference thereto. They may still
debate as to the wisdom of the
law, but there is only one course.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-10-21

The people of the United States as
whole are no doubt just as en-
phatically opposed to letting down the
barriers to the brewers. In fact, they
have already expressed themselves in
vote that practically amounted to a
referendum on this issue when they
elected the present Congress which is
drier Congress than the Congress
that voted to submit the Eighteenth
Amendment. The beer and wine issue
was raised in every congressional dis
trict where the liquor interests felt
they had a chance to elect candidate
committed to the beer and wine pro-
posal.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22

5,720 Of the 1890 cases prosecuted
by the Department of Justice under
wartime laws and 9,259 cases still ere
pending, Mr.. Palmer said. A total of
1929 cases "were disposed of other
wise than by convictions" he added.
The largest number of cases arose
from violations of the selective serv-
ice act, under which 4.S12 persons
were convicted, chiefly for failure to
register for the draft.
a total of 5S1 convictions under the
espionage act have been obtained, Mr..
Palmer continued, and in 237 cases
prison sentences were imposed and
Of this number 133 still are in prison.
President Wilson has pardOned or com
muted the sentences in 1919 cases, in
some of which only fines were i'm
posed. Cases involving violation of
the act still pending number 80, and
736 cases were disposed of otherwise
than by conviction.
Wilson, "More Lenient," He Says.
The attorney general said the atti-
tude of President Wilson and the De-
partment of Justice ''has been much
more lenient than that OF judges and
district attorneys who handled the
cases."
Cases resulting from violation of
wartime laws are receiving precisely
the same consideration it would be
necessary to give them if general
amnesty proclamation were issued"
the attorney general added
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22

different legal opinions regarding the
fifty-ward bill
Alderman John H. Lyle, who also
served in the Legislature, contends
that the fifty-ward bill cannot be
amended without a referendum of the
people, Most of the holdovers had
decided to take a chance and accept
the advice of Corporation Counsel Et-
telson and ''sit tight" The ffty-ward
act expressly provides that there are
to be no aldermanic elections in 1922,
and as that would leave a number
of aldermen out in the cold most of
them decided to run this year for a
two-year term, even though they had
to battle with their colleagues. Aid.
Lyle's legal opinion is given in re-
sponse to a request from Aid. A. J.
Cermak, chairman of the council com
mittee on elections, and Aid. James
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22
ONE HUNDRED MILLION
FOR SEWAGE PLANTS

Expenditure of $100,000,000 for sew
age disposal plants by the sanitary
district in the next fifteen years was
decided on at meeting of the fed
eral revisions committee of the dis
trict with Col w. W Judson, head of
government engine ring in the north
west division.
This decision settled the argument
between the sanitary district and the
government over the amount of water
withdrawn from Lake Michigan
through the drainage canals Federal
engineers contended that in using
more than the allotted 25O,OOO cubic
feet a minute, the sanitary district
was causing lowering of Lake Mich
igan to the peril of navigation.
The sanitary trustees argued that
state law permitted them to use $780,
900 feet a minute. Construction of
disposal plants, however, will solve
the difficulty.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22

at the Feb % election. Aid. John
Burns, whose term expires, will not be
a candidate. O'Toole will probably
receive the support of the Thompson
Republicans, though he is Demo
crat.
Announcement of the candidacy of
Andrew c. Metzger, president of the
Seventh Ward William Hale Thomp-
son club, for alderman of that ward
was made at a meeting of the club in
the headquarters at Cottage Grove
avenue and Sixty-third street
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22
Chicago's Hold Over Aldermen Are Upset
Over Different Legal Opinions
Regarding the Fifty Ward Bill
And the Lure of the Pay Roll Makes Many of Them
Candidates at Coming Spring Election

B. Bowler, chairman of the subcom-
mittee on redistricting.
In part it reads as follows
Such amendatory act, before it be-
comes effective, would have to be sub
mitted to and approved by the legal
voters of the city of Chicago, because
such amendatOry act, being a special
law applicable to the city of Chicago
alone, just as the so-called fifty-ward
act would be, just as are all special
acts of the legislature relating to the
city of Chicago alone, based upon the
amendment to the Illinois constitution
of 1870 being section "a of article
of said constitution
Prior to the enactment of this
amendment it was not within the pow
er of the legislature to pass any Spe-
cial act relating TO the local munic-
ipal government of the city of Chi
cagO alone, but ALI acts had to be of
general application throughout the
state of Illinois. By such amendment
power was given to the legislature to
pass local or special acts relating
alone to the municipal government of
the city of Chicago, and in said conSti-
tutional amendment it was expressly
provided as follows:
No law based upon this amend
ment to the constitution shall take
effect until such law shall be consent
ed to by majority of the legal voters
of said city voting on the question at
any election general, municipal or
special; and no local or special law
based upon this amendment affecting
specially any part of the city of Chi
cagO shall take effect until consented
to by a majority of the legal voters
voting on the question at any cleo
tiOn.'"
Aid. Lyle refers to the amendments
to the Municipal court act, all of
which he says, were submitted to the
people, several being rejected.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22
CLAYTON F. Smith
FOR CITY TREASURER
Popular Alderman Selected AS
Candidate by Democratic
Organization.

Clayton F. Smith, popular Twenty
eighth ward alderman, was given the
hearty endorsement of the Democratic
Managing Committee of Cook County,
for City Treasurer last Monday. His
selection was a popular one with all
classes of Democrats, as his record
as a public official and business man
is so we'll known that his candidacy
will prove winning one with the peo-
pie.
Aid. Smith served as city treasurer
from 1917 to 1919. Since then he has
been alderman from the Twenty
eighth ward. He served as a member
of the board of local improvements
under former Mayor Harrison, resign
ing to become warden of the county
hospital.