Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-26
ANT|-SECTAR|ANS
TO FIGHT Change
Kaufman Will Carry Battle on
Religious Grants to Re-
vision Contest
DENIES BIeoTRY ANlMUS
BY GEORGE NOX Mccain

"Having disproved the right Of the
Legislature to make appropriations for
sectarian and religious purposes, we
will disprove its right to call Con-
stitutional Convention under the con-
ditions II has imposed.
''The Supreme Court cannot we'll re-
verse itself. II has already. years ago,
decided this question. The opposition
might do we'll to look into this matter"
The speaker bore striking resem
blance to the late Andrew Carnegie.
Z He was below the medium as to
height, and was lacking in girth. His
hair, beard and mustache were snowy
white. The beard was worn fuller than
Carnegie ever wore his, though.
He spoke in low tone. almost with
out infection. His facial characteristics
centered in n pair of very dark eyes
that lighted up with animation when
he got properly started on his favorite
topic.
He was one Of the original organizers
Of the Prohibition Party. away back in
1850, and he has been fighting it's battles
ever since.
have endeavored to describe Luther
s. Kaufman.
He Ia the man who put over" tb.
job of knocking out all future sectarian
appropriations by the Legislature.
How He Did 1t
He did il through his appeal to the
Supreme Court after he had been foored
by Judge Wickersham. OF the Dauphin
County Court.
The seeming trouble with Mr.. Kauff-
man is that he doesn't know when he
is licked" He has plugged away ap-
parently all his life. obsessed with the
Idea that he couldn't be knocked out.
Take two concrete examples as proof.
Prohibition was a joke at the close
Of the Civil War and for three decades
after. Its advocates were regarded as
nuts; as fanatics hopelessiy welded
to their foolish ideals.
Luther s. Kaufman. of Schuylkill
County, with FIVE other so-called IA
natics from Pennsylvania, made the tire
some journey 10 Chicago in 1869 when
the Prohibition Party Of the United
States was organized.
That was fifty years ago. and look
what the Prohibition Party has done
In the intervening years.
Six years ago Mr.. Kaufman got the
notion in his head that the appropriaZ
tion Of the taxpayers money, made by
the State Legislature, to sCctarlGn or
schools. universities. associations and
other denominational enterprises was
all wrong.
'I made up my mind" said Mr.
Kaufman, that il was contrary TO the
letter and the spirit of the State Con-
stitution. l looked into the subject and
found that | was right.
Held 1t Unpatriotic
: 81 interested a number of my friends.
We organized the Anti -Sectarian APP
preparation Association. 1t has been
growing steadily ever since. We fought
our battle on the broad basis that grant
ing money to any sectarian institution
was not only fundamentally wrong, but
was unpatriotic.
The Supreme Court this month,
after a fight lasting moro than two years
has decided that we are right, and the
other fellows are wrong. That is where
we stand today
f'Have you not overlooked the fact
that institutions asking State aid are
non -sectarian in the bestowal of their
ben efits? Their doors are open. without
discrimination, to all sufferers. in the
cas, Of hospitals, without question as
to their religious faith?" l suggested.
1--WE have overlooked nothing. That