The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-03-23
RECENTLY SAID
BY Governor Percival P. Baxter of

BY Governor Percival P. Baxter of
Maine: 1.-THE state should handle all
Prohibition enforcement work within
its borders without calling on federal
authorities for help, Our sheriffs,
county attorneys, local judges and
municipal police, ii their hearts are in
their work, can drive out or imprison
the whole brood of liquor Offenders.
By Governor Clifford Pinchot of
Pennsylvania: Il am going to en-
force the Prohibition law. We are
going through with this great task
to the end. and | have not the slight
est doubt that the friends of decency
and law and order will be strong
enough to defeat those who have been
debauching this commonwealth and in
many cases debating appointments Of
so-called law-enforcing officials"
BY u. S. District Attorney John T..
Williams: Legal procedure is now
being perfected by which Indifferent
landlords, involved in bootlegging
cases, will be penalized by having their
buildings abatcd for one year. -
By President Warren G. Harding:
"Thc White House, Washington,
Feb. 20, 1923. Hon. X! A. Haynes,
Prohibition Commissioner, Washing
ton. My dear Mr.. Haynes: / have
your letter of Feb 10, in which you
apprise me OF your contemplated trip
to Ohio and your engagement to adj
dress joint session of the Ohio Cen
eral Assembly on the subject OF Pro-
hibition law enforcement. | think it
is fine thing that you have these OPP
portunitics of stressing the utter inn
portance of full law enforcement i'll
order to sustain the dignity of govern
ment and maintain that necessary re-
spect Tor law and order which is the
security of the republic"
By Albert Edward Wiggam: THE
Eighteenth Amendment, if it really
prohibits is the most tremendous 'eu
genie law ever passed in the worlds
history, because it will profoundly i'll
fluence the health, sanity and stamina
of the generations yet unborn
By Pussyfoot Johnson: ITO any
man who thinks with his head instead
of with his stomach, it is quite appar-
ent that red liquor will have the same
effect on drinker, whether sold over
gilded bar by saint, or sold i'll a
doggery by a horse thief"
By Prohibition Commissioner Roy
A. Haynes: ut is not enough that a
man shall obey the law and enjoy the
privileges and blessings secured to him
under the law, but it is the duty OF the
good citizen to constitute himself as
far as his. abilities permit, guardian
and defender of the law"
By Judge Henry M. Walker:
"Moonshine is just as much a poi
son as arsenic is. Murder can be
committed with moonshine. If these
men knowingly sold the poisonous
liquor that killed their victim then they
murdered her."
By Bishop Thomas Nicholson:
THE supreme test of Demdcracy, the
supreme test of free government, is
to effectuate itself in Prohibition. 1t
sounds challenge to every red
blooded young man and woman"
By DIR. Ernest H. Cherrington:
"The success or failure of Prohibition
is to test the ability of the Christian
Church to solve great social problems.
If it fails, there is not much hope for
solving some OF the other great social
problems before il"
By William Jennings Bryan: Il
would recommend that Congress pass
resolutions asking the President of the
United States to protest against the
use OF foreign flags TO protect the
floating bars that are operating just
outside the three mile limit"