The Alaska daily empire., 1922-08-29

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 - until we have reached pass where misdemeanors ot all kinds nave grown 10 d staggering total. where crimes ot atrocious violence are un- punished, their perpetrators Unpun- ished, the machinery of law made quate and poworless and the voices of law and order silenced and over whemed. eliminating in a formal demand by the members Of prohihi- tion enforcement for martial law, in the last extremity to overcome uni versal resistance to this unenlorcible statute.
 Law-Breaking a Pastime
 And whereas; every citizen Is aware that the Volstead Law is wholly pernicious, that by reason of it's unpopularity and impracticabllity it is bringing all law into contempt and disrcpute and is making law breaking a pastfme, something to brag about. we are aware that our courts are choked with liquor cases. that the Volstcad Law has created added friction between labor and capital, that if has afforded and placed in operation an opportunity for graft of magnitude to stagger the imagination, that it is an un- warranf ed violation of liberty and American principles. Prohibitionists promised us empty jails, we have an unprecedented crime wave with peni- tentiaries Oyerflowing and jails de mand.ng new and larger additions. Under prohibition we were promised richer nation, we now pay in creased taxes with increased cost of government and decreased reVe- rue. with five times the failures and bankruptcy proceedings for five times the amount of last year, or any other year. We daily see the effects of prohibition on our own fair Al aska, where half the business houses are closed and the sheriff taking possession of others almost daily and the people of Alaska see nothing but
 anu dCotNdtlOii obt'A i'S them in the face. These results, fore seen by every man of intelligence and information, and predicted by every person with even a school boys familiarity with history, are still ignored by the dclirious bigOtry which continues to paralyze such con science and independence as still re
 do in our debilitated politics.
 And. whereas; the United States has become d by-word among the civilized peoples of the world summed by visitors from other lands, as our ships and resorts are summed by us. despsed as a country whose people can be cocrced without pro- test and deprived of their libertief by a shameless fanGticism with de clinirg commerce and waning influ- ence on the action of the world, with growing disaffcction and dissympathy at home toward government which is content to thwart and harass it's own people without consulting, or pretending to express their judgment, i their preferences or their convic- tions.
 And, whereas; in addition to the Volstead Law with all of it's iniqui- ties, the Congress cf :he United State has seen fit in its wisdom to impose upon the people of this Ter ritory of All5ka, th"t destroying, terrifying, iniquHous and un-Ameri- can law known as "The Alaska Bone Dry Law" and that infamous law was passed without consulting the people of the Territory nor were they al lowed to utter one single word in protest, or in their own defense, there has arisen in this country, as a consequence, a condition of affairs which free men have always deemed intolerable since the beginning of history. Beginning with the inva- sion of a lying statute proceeding upon assumption of facts which are absolutely false, and carrying in it's train all the mortfying and offensive l and depressing consequences Of such vicious Legislation, in the shape ol violated homes, espOinage. oppressive arrest. false evidence. public dishon esty. law evasion. official corruption and every canker that has ruined states. toppled governments and un dermined society and humanity ir ] the past.
 Asks for Repeal
 Therefore, be it Resolved; thai we declare for the repeal of the