The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-08-12
WHEELER DENOUNCES
THE LIQUOR INTERESTS
Seek To Control Congress BY Buy
ing Votes And Any Other Method.
Have No Respect For Law Or Law
Abiding Citizens.

When the right of self-govern-
ing people to enforce its own laws
enacted by the orderly process OF
government is challenged, there the
conflict must be without quarter
until the law and its enforcement
are masters OF the field. More than
80 national liquor organizations
now challenge the right of the Amer
lean people to make the Eighteenth
Amendment operative and the laws
enacted pursuant thereto effective.
In the primaries in pennsylvania
on May 10th the outlawed liquor IN
terests had the effrOntery in certain
Congressional districts to send out
communication under the name OF
the Liquor Dealers Association y
Congressman Clyde Kelly of the
33rd Pennsylvania District, descrlb-
ed it as follows:
In my own district | saw the
power of the outlaws and the power
of the people The Allegheny
County Liquor Dealers Association,
whose every existence is an insulting
challenge to the Constitution and
laws of this country, officially in
uOISSu MY OppolAChG anu 2NPPAA~N
him with large sums of money.
levied from license-holders and
bootleggers. Seventy-tiye thousand
dollars was expended and every
method known to polecat fighters
was brought into use.
Mr. Kelly was renominated by
1890 majority Oh the Republican
ticket, three to one on the Demo
cratic ticket and unanimously on the
Prohibition Party ticket.
The immediate objective OF the
liquor. interests openly declared is to
legalize light wine ana beer. which
would make Federal prohibition
non enforceable. This would mean
the ret ul1in::' of -breNeries and Wine
TIes with a complete system neces-
sary for distribution. The beer traf-
fic with its attendant political cor
ruption represented the principal
part OF the outlaWed liquor traffic
Its reinstatement, therefore Would
bring back most Of the evils WhlcD
were prohibited by. the Eighteenth
Amendment.
The people of the United States
have been issued a challenge by the
Toes of law enforcement. They de-
nberately plan to elect members OF
Congress who will destroy the laws
necessary to enforce national pro
hibition, even though they must take
an oath to support the Constitution
before they can qualify as Congress-
men and United States Senators. 435
Congressman and 35 United States
II IL 0nlr ~
organizations pledged to make law
enforcement a farce in the United
States. More than tWo-thlrds OF
Congress have stood loyal to their
oaths. They will be the objects OF
the most unpatriotic attack ever
made upon public officials.
The issue which faces the people
of this nation today reaches more
than the friends of prohibition. Ii
has its vital appeal to every fr1eno
of orderly government. If the out
laWed liquor interests can defy the
Constitution it means that the gov
eminent itself fails. When red
FLOODED Americans must choose be
tween defiance of law by a lawless
minority and law and order there
will be no doubt as to the outcome
The whole history of the liquor
traffic reveals it as foe of orderly
government and as breeder OF law
lessness. Patriotic citizens have nc
choice. when they must choose be-
tween law enforcement and law def
ance.
Every guarantee CT life. liberty
and the pursuit OF happiness depends
upon law and order. Every person
al and property right that every in
dividual citizen has is at stake il
this conflict. There can be and will
be but one outcome when American
citizens face this vital issue.