Evening star., 1923-10-14
RAP HILL AND BECK
FOR THEIR ATTITUDE
ON PROHIBITION ACT
Rabbi Wise and Senator
Glass Score Officials at
Citizenship Sessions.

James NJ Beck, solicitor general Of
the United States, and Representa-
tive John Phillip Hill of Maryland
were under fire at the Citizenship
Conference. called in the interest of
law enforcement and prohibition last
night
Before great audience which filled
the auditorium of the Central High
School and in which were prominent
leaders Of religious, temperance,
political. business, women's and civic
organizations. Rabbi Stephen s. Wise
Of New York took the solicitor gen.
eral to task, because of a recent
speech in which he "by innuendo"
protested against prohibition as an
interference with personal rights.
TO speak of the eighteenth amend
ment as an invasion of the personal
rights of the American people was
most uniting on the part of the
solicitor general of the United States,
not to say indecent" said Rabbi Wise.
He was not Chesterfieldian arbiter
eligantium expressing an opinion on
an amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. But even the So
licitor general will learn some day
that the eighteenth amendment is Just
as unrepealable as the Constitution
itself or any of the other amend
ments
Discloses Lawlessness.
at has been charged that the eight
eenth amendment evokes lawlessness.
The eighteenth amendment does not
evoke lawlessness, but the eighteenth
amendment discloses lawlessness, and
in some of the highest places.
II believe, however, that President
Coolidge may be trusted to enforce
the laws of the United States to the
fullest degree"
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
former Secretary of the Treasury,
without the actual use of his name,
criticized Representative Hill of
Maryland, and declared that Mr.. Hill
should be put in Jail because of his
defiance of the prohibition law, in
manufacturing 12 per cent wine in his
home.
Il have pity for the poor, ignorant
mountaineer. who turns his aples into
brandy" said Senator Glass, "who has
been taught for years that the gov
ernment is his enemy and that he has
great a right to do so as the farmer
has to turn his wheat into -four. But
a congressman of the United States.
under oath to support the Constitution,
who sanctions or participates in its
violation, deserves no mercy on earth.
Congressman and Law.
''If any Virginia congressman should
undertake to challenge the sanctity of
the law by the manufacture of liquor in
his cellar, or in his parlor, l guarantee
he would be put in jail. And if United
States attorney should say that he was
engaged in more important business
than the prosecution of that congress-
man I would engage to find a states
attorney who will put him in JAIL
"It is. said that consideration should
be given to the position of congress-
man. He deserves no consideration, but
especial punishment. The criminal law
should be appealed to, in his case. not a
civil luJuASilOlis
"Who among you Is SO simple as
not to know that IL an obscure citi-
zen were caught manufacturing
liquor he would be seized and put in
jail. 1t is a shame upon the admin
istrative power of the government
that a congressman should be allowed
to make IL per cent wine in defiance
of the amendment and of the law.
say he ought to be put in JAIL
Senator Glass took a fling also at
the administration of law In Pennsyl-
yania.
when see in the newspapers that
the Governor of the great state of
Pennsylvania has found 1900 open
saloons in Philadelphia" said Sena-
tor Glass, "I thank God that one open
saloon cannot be found in Virginia.
We may have some bootleggers there,
but when we find them we put them
in jaiI, where the congressman ought
to be-
Some day, Senator Glass said. in
the distant future, there may be
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