The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-06-15

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tional interference with the colored
situation.
D. B. Mckay. Editor, The Tampa
(Fla.) Times
| recognize III the Constitution of
the United States the supreme law Of
the land and hold it is the duty Of
every citizen to obey the law.
Louisville (Ky.) Times
As the matter stands, if New York
and Maryland refuse to exercise juris-
diction, then the burden of law en-
forcement falls solely on federal Of
ficials. No state law tending to ham
per the government in enforcing pro-
hib;tion would stand the test of con-
stitutionality. To the Times there is
no question of states rights involved.
The Constitution is enforceable. If
the state will not enforce it, the gov
eminent will do so, but Washington
cannot go on to a state capital and
tell the legislature to pass bill or
tell a governor that he must veto a
measure.
Robert Montgomery, Editor, The
Louisville (Ky) Herald
Insofar as the Herald knows, there
is no organized opposition in Ken
lucky to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth or
Eighteenth Amendments to the Consti-
tuition. The Herald believes that
Kentuckians, in the future as in the
past, will support the Constitution Of
the United States.
Birmingham (Ala.) News
Alabama is one of the 48 states that
ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution. Alabama is almost
solidly in favor of all federal courts in
sending bootleggers to the Atlanta
penitentiary. After the war between
the states, waged largely on a states
rights proposition, there remains only
the shadowy outline of this political
dogma. More and more the drift is
toward Capitalization of government.
The Eighteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
tenth Amendments must be consider
ed separately. These problems, so
called, that have faced the South, will
be worked out patiently, tediously; but
they will be solved ultimately. The
better sentiment in the South, OF both
white and colored citizens, respects the
restrictions of the franchise now in
existence. The problems must be
worked out one at time.
Frederick Sullens, Editor. The Jackson
(Miss.) Daily News
Mississippi is not losing any sleep
over a probable enforcement of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments. These clauses of the organic
law have been interpreted by the
United States supreme court to our
entire satisfaction, and they no longer
constitute political bugaboo, save in
the minds of cheap politicians and
rabble rousing demagogues down here
in the South, where all is peace and
sunshine. We are sincerely hoping
that New York, Maryland and other
states that still love their liquor will
not secede from the Union because
of prohibition enforcement. 1t would
annoy US very much to be forced to 20
to war during the hot summer weather
to whip them back in line.
E. T. Leech, Editor, The Birmingham
(Ala) Post
Replying to your telegram, prohibit
ton sentiment is so strong in Alabama,
one of the first of the dry states, that
President Harding's prohibition at
titude is undoubtedly generally ap-
proved. As to the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments, there would
undoubtedly be widespread protest at
any vigorous effort to change present
conditions existing under them.