The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-08
) FOULKE TAKES FLING
AT WORK AND HAYNES;
ATTACKS DRY LEAGUE

WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-Wnliam
Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Ind, poet
and reformer, was speaker here last
night at the forty-second annual con-
vention of the National Civil Service
Reform league. About 65 persons were
in attendance.
Mr.. Foulke's chief complaint as a
civil service advocate was that most
postmasters appointed under the Hard
ing administration have been Repub-
licans, alleging that what he terms
the "spoils system" has more control
over such appointments than civil
service. He had praise for VIII II.
Hays, who is out of office, but COM
planned about Postmaster General
Work
The Indiana reformer, though he has
been a dry. even took a wallop at the
Anti-Saloon league and rejoiced in the
recent defeat for reelection of Repre-
sentative Volstead. He charged that
the Anti-Saloon league has pursued an
Immoral and wicked course" because
1t has permitted without protest the
enforcement bureau to become and re-
main the spoils of degenerate political
plunderers" He would put all prohi-
bition enforcement agents under civil
service.
"The prohibition enforcement bu-
reau has been defined as an "edu-
cational Institution of bootleggers at
government expense If it were on
ly that! If the student would only
wait until he graduated before en-
barking in this most lucrative pro-
fession? But they practice it. while
they learn, and in doing this they
show the way to others, tempt them
to bribery and to the violation OF
the law until the bureau becomes an
institution for the education not
merely of bootleggers but of our whole
people, in law breaking, intemperance
and corruption, leading to the general
encouragement OF every kind of vice
and crime.
Rejoicing Over Volstead Beating.
"Most culpable has been the Anti
Saloon League, the organization be-
hind the Volstead act which made
these places in the prohibition en-
forcement service the mere plumber
of congressman and other politicians.
Mr.. Volstead himself favored making
these places political spoils and re
ioice that such a man has been de
feated. Commissioner Haynes him
self. with the best intentions of en-
forcing the law. has hid his head in
the sand like an ostrich, and insisted
that the criminals who are admins
tering the law were generally salts
factory.
Haynes said, one of the most In
siduous weapons being used today BY
the opposition is the effort to discred
It the prohibition service. In my
Judgment, taking it as whole, the
force of about 1900 persons engaged
in the prohibition work in all parts
of the United States is as high type q
force as Is found in the government
service God help that service is thiS
were true"
II here accuse the Anti-Saloor
League that in permitting, without 4
protest, the enforcement bureau to
become and remain the spoils of de
generate political plunderers, they
have themselves been guilty OF an i'm
moral and wicked course.
Deserved Chastisement.
"They have betrayed the cause
they espouse by discrediting its
agents, and they deserve the chastise
ment visited upon them for the rep
: 'rehensible conduct in New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts,, Illinois anC
elsewhere inNthe late election"