The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-03
ny LAW AMENDMENT
| WON'T Be REPEALED
,,,1p1T1oN HERE TO STAY,
0pFs1DENT TELLS STATES
IN DENVER SPEECH.
.,rES A PLEA FOR ABSTINENCE
,.,r+ion of the Whisky Problem,
~ Appeals to Americans to Stop
:, ' unless Drinking. Is Opposed to
,Ioai6cation of Dry Laws.

Modification of Dry Laws.
|nrvvFR Colo.-President Hard,
soeaking here today, definitely
E,s..d himself, his administration anc
ooIitical fortunes on the side o.
|s..s opposed to modification OF the
f. ~, dry laws. He made himselt
/ N nsr cent dry politically and other
IT,. chief executive furthermore
&.,rsd notice in his address that SC
r. az he remained in the white
Eor.e the prohibition and other laws
Iorrd not be permitted to become q
sby.word" even should the burden o.
.riorcement be increasingly passed or
/ tbe federal government by the
It's He appealed to the American
A4oole 10 stop drinking Intoxicating
Without Gloves.
Il
President Harding waded into the
+ab;bition situation without gloves,
N in BY lar the most forcetul speech
i has ever delivered on this contro-
E,siaI subject, he declared that pro-
E4jon in the United States has come
/ yay that people might as we'll
4 Ike I'D their minds to it, and that 1t
m to the individual states and local
lthorities to enforce it.
M the states fail in this moral and
Institutional duty to the federal gov
Irment. he warned, then the govern
mt at great expense will be COM
A fed to create a national police au-
suitv that in the end will severely
lure state sovereignty and eventual
menace the well-being OF the re-
. bic.
Moreover, he, served notice on the
sk within his own party that there
tud be no wet plank in the repub-
IN platform next year.
II venture to predict" said Mr..
Rrding, that neither of the great
sTtes will see the time within the
s OF any who are now voting cltl-
! when it will declare openly for
4 repeal Of the eighteenth amend
am convinced, too, that what
changes may be made Gin the
Mead law will represent the sin
purpose of effective enforcement,
8hu than moderation of the gen
policy"
Ihe president replied in hot fash
i to Governor Al Smith, of New
k whose approval of the repeal
i enforcement law in New York
based primarily upon the SOW
Ign rights of an individual state to
Operate with the government or
as it chose.
ngead OF unfolding state rights
Harding declared, such action
eSents complete negation OF state
AS to State Rights.
II is a curious illustration of loose
king, said the president, men
= Ping no names, that some people
Il proposed, as a means to protect
The fullest rights of the states, that
states should abandon their part
Enforcing prohibition.
This means simply an invitation
he federal government to exercise
Eirs which should be exercised by
states.
s Instead OF being an assertion of
rights, it is an abandonment OF
p it is an abdication; it amounts
confession by the state that it
mt choose to govern itself, but
eFs to turn the task, or a consid-
i part OF it, over to federal au-
n.y. There could be no more COM
negatlon Of state rights"
ltAdent Harding fatty denied the
Ention advanced by Governor
U and a few other state eXecu-
that responsibility for enforcing
'oIstead law rests with Wash
4 .N .dCl IS quite the contrary, as
y Air. Harding. The federal gov
.ynt Is not equipped with the in
lThtaLllcs to make enforcement
Y effective. 1t does not maintain
police or a judicial establish
a8Gequate, or designed for such
federal government ought to
%H only those functions in con-
Vl with enforcement which are
proper province, the president
ne enumerated the duties of the
government as supervising in
- .o.taI commerce, importing and
r,auon OF liquors, collection of
gri; revenue, and prevention of
Ssnas' But the business OF local
.lu5iit he insisted, belongs to
ii 51aS5 and local authorities and
De executed by them in the
MN sincerity and good faith that
SS7r laws are enforced.
or,5 national policy ought to be
s i.tu by public opinion and the
~ .sHaaqon machinery of the whole
~ he continued. THE country
ny nation will not permit the law
,and to become a byword."
issue Is One of Law.
r issue IS fast becoming recog-
eer "e went on, mot as an issue
h." l,s and drys, not a ques-
6;;"een those who believe in
' r,-. and those who do not;
AND rJJ'.i;ntion between those who
rs;. nose who do not; it is fast
Of i',gl above all that, to recog-
il al a. issue OF whether the laws
country can and will be en-
sr1 he, as the federal government is
a. and and l am very sure also,
Of s concerns the very great ma
led SI1'e governments, it will be
progral, gratifying, indeed amaz-
e'ess has been made in the