The American issue., 1922-06-02

the principle of Prohibition so we'll
that American Issue gives it space.
MAY 13, 1922.
"Hon. A. c. Stanley,
U. S. Senate,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir:
81 am in receipt this day of your
speech delivered at the Blackstone
Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, January II,
1922, entitled 'Perils of Paternalism.
l confess that am at loss, why the
address should be sent to me, or why
government money should be used in
reprinting it and sending it over the
United States at public expense?
"The speech starts with high-sound-
ing phrases and trumpet blast for
the right of the citizen, but in the end
it is only plea for the brewery and
the saloon, that have gone to join the
feudal lords, the troubadours and the
slave owners of the past centuries.
/ The thing appears robed in a lions
skin all right, until at the end we find
that it is but plea for the brewers
personal liberty and the saloons dia-
tribe against 'sumptuary laws, and
/ the real animal is disclosed.
at is all very we'll for you to prate
about the charter rights as old as
Saxon civilization; it is all very we'll
to talk about the immunity of the
citizen from interference with the ex-
ercise of his inalienable rights But
pray sir, where does the liberty of the
drunkard's wife begin; where does the
freedom of the child begotten in
drunkenness and often born an idiot,
come from?
"Your quotations from the Com
mune' and others prove the hypocrisy
of your plea and the falsehood of your
arguments; The liberty of every cit
izen,' says the Commune, ends
where the liberty of every other citi-
zen begins VIII you pray tell me
how that applies to the brewery or the
saloon, that send their drunken, stag
gering victims home to brutally beat
and kill the wife and child whom they
have sworn at the altar to love and
cherish and protect?
"Your quotation from that: IF my
action or my condition generally, can
co-exist with the freedom of every
other etc, sounds fine i'll the mouth
of the saloonkeeper that robs the Gus
toner of his character and money, the
wife of her husband, the mother oil
her son, the child of its parent, its ed
ucation, its only chance in life.
1T is pretty late in the day, after
the Supreme Court, from the Massa-
chusetts beer cases to its late decision
on the Volstead act, has declared the
rights of the people to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
| beverages, to get up and rant in public
about the personal rights of the citi-
zen. And after forty-six states have
ratified the national Prohibition
Amendment, which was submitted by
the vote of Congress, by more than
the required majority, to the states; il
is too late to rant about the 'uncon-
stitutionaity' Of the Eighteenth
Amendment. Though | give you
credit for so wisely yelling the object
OF your attack, that the ordinary citi-
zen might not discover it.
Il know not what the future of this
country may be, | know not what fu-
ture legislation may be passed by the
states and the nation; but | can as
sure you, Sir, that not in thousand
years, will Congress or the states
adopt an amendment of the Consti-
tuition, nor pass law that will con-
fer greater blessings financial, moral
or spiritual than the abolition of the
accursed liquor traffic. This traffic
fortified itself behind the license and