Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-09-27
WANTS DRY LAWS
RIGIDLY ENFORCED
Dr.. Pickett Delivers Urgent Plea
To Methodists Meeting
At BarbourviIle
tpy Associated Press,


Barbourville, KY, Sept. "
An appeal for the enforcement OF
the Eighteenth Amendment was
! made here last night in an adj
dress by the Rev. Deets Pickett,
of Washington, before the Ken
! tucky Conference of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, in which he
pictured the effects of break
down in the prohibition law.
Stop, look, listen" was the
Rev. Mr.. Pickett's warning to
the people of American who
"tamper with home brew and
who talk OF my bootlegger'"
You little women 'vho go
about the living room shaking a
cocktail mixer; you editors who
are trying to make the law a lie
by bringing back wine and beer
and the beer saloon; you politi-
clans who want the old saloon
back because you need it i'll your
business, you can't destroy the
prohibition law, you can't ridiculc
and oppose the enforcement o;
that law, without striking direct
ly at the safety of your wife and
daughter. the security of your
children and the stability of your
property interests" the speaker
said.
Everything that is in and Of
America, everything that *
worth while in the life of ever.
individual in the United States.
rests squarely upon the basis OF
law and order" said the Rev. Mr..
Pickett.
prohibition is part of the
aw Of the United States. 1t is
stone i'll the foundat on. There
is only one way i'll which it car
be gotten out Of the Foundation
without wrecking the structure
and that is by the due process CT
repeal.
The fathers who gave us thi,
glorious country-George Wash
ington. Thomas Jefferson. Madi-
son. Zen Franklin, John Hancocl,
determined how the prohibition
law should be put into the Con
stitution. They said If certain
things are done in certain ways,
they must be accepted by the ell
tire people.
They made it hard to make
changes and they expected their
children to accept the changes
that were made according to the
agreed plan making them.
That pan is the bond of our
Union, the only thing that holds
our people and our States togct1-
er. Destroy it, convince the ma
tion that the people no longer
believe i'll the rule of the majori
ty, let the people begin to think
that it avai.s nothing to exert the
effort necessary to cause the sub
mission of Constitutional amend
ment by two-th:rds of Congress
and its rat fication by three
fourths of the legislatures, lei
them think that there is a minor
iity who will hold that verdict II
contempt and the rule of the bal
lot breaks down in this country,
with unlimited possibilities OF
chaos in prospect.
There are enemies of the
American Constitution, Of Ameri-
can law, of American society. at
work among lis today. The Boil
shevik, the anarchist, the man
who wants to destroy all existing
social compacts, is here. If he
prevails, you men who made mo-
ney for the first time during the
great war while sons Of prohibit
ton workers were making the
world safe for democracy, Wi ]
hear the mob rapping at your
door, will see your women COW
ering in the darkest corners OF
the basement, will see your new
ly acquired wealth ripped from
your houses to feed the greed OF
anarchy. Only one thing stands
between you and tliat--the Con-
stitution and the law.
Take Your choice. but remem-
Der what the break down of the
law will mean to you personally
The Face In the Mirror