The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-16
FEARS END OF
GOVERNMENT #
VETS SUCCEED
C. W. Stewart, President of Flying
Squadron. Attacks Method
Of Opposing Party.

II the VETS succeed in their
ynoyement to restore the LIQUOR
traffic without repeating the pro-
hibition national amendment, the
government OF the United States
will eventually be crushed, Oliver
". Stewart, president of the Flying
Squadron foundation and 20 years
ago member Of the Illinois state
legislature from Chicago, told an
audience in the Fifteenth Avenue
Christian church last evening.
Yesterday afternoon and evening
concluded the three-day session
which the Flying Squadron con-
Quoted in the tri-cities. Rev. Nor
ma C. Brown, former Rock Island
girl and student of Augustana col
lege, gave the Sunday addresses on
the advantages gained by prohibit
ton through the suffrage act. She
spoke Sunday in the absence of
James H. Woertendyke, who was
taken i'll in Muscatine.
Using for the foundation of his
talk the quotation, '-in the latter
half of the eighteenth century, no.
where else in all the world was
government so well understood as
in these colonies from a statement
by Arthur j. Balfour of the British
commission to the disarmament
conference, Mr.. Stewart said:
IF the vets succeed in doing
the thing they say they intend to
do by the method which they are
employing and which they say they
will employ, this democracy-the
worlds last governmental hope
must fall. The vets are engaged
in a movement to restore the drink
traffic without repeating the pro-
hibition national amendment To
do so by electing a congress to re-
peal the Volstead act and thus leave
the amendment with no means for
its enforcement, is to make per-
jurers of the congressman who do
the bidding of the liquorites. That
alone would be sufficient to over
, throw this government.
He further charged that the
wet" attack means the breakdown
of the federal constitution and
when the constitution goes down,
the government goes with it," he
warned
At the afternoon meeting, Mr..
Stewart discussed the plans of the
vets answering the question,
What is the basis of the hope of
Iquorites to restore the liquor traf-
fic?"
The "Net. Campaign.
The two lines of procedure up
on which the opponents of prohibit
ton are acting are the violation of
the law and a practical method of
work. he added THE first is. the
theory that if the law is broken
with sufficient persistency and for
sufficient length of time, they
will wear out the dry people and
break down their will and purpose
to have the law enforced" Mr.
Stewart said THE second con-
sists in the enrolment everywhere
of voters who are willing by their
signature to declare that they de-
sire the restoration of beer and
wine. which is to be the entering
wedge for the return of the liquor
traffic.
Mr.. Stewart was born in Rio, Ill,
and lived and was educated in Mer-
Ger county and Woodruff, served
four years as state president and
two as secretary of the Christian
Endeavor, and was in the state leg
islature 20 years ago sitting next
to Attorney General E. J. Brun-
dage. He succeeded ]. Frank Han
ly to the presidency of the Flying
Squadron foundation last August
when the latter was killed in an
accident