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


the answers received. The following
the question submitted by the Sun.
George F. Milton, Jr., Editor of re
Chattanooga (Tenn.) News
This section of the South is in hearty
sympathy with President Harding's
efforts to secure enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment to the federal
Constitution. The South believes in
prohibition and feels that no state
should be permitted to nullify the
sentiment of the vast majority of the
people of the nation upon that sub
ject.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments offer no parallel or OBJ
stacle as to the Eighteenth Amend
rnent So far as any official action is
known, the states of the South are OBJ
serving fully the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments. The statutes
of the Southern states enforcing edu-
cational qualifications on wouldbe
voters have all gone to the supreme
court of the United States and have
been upheld.
The vets of the East, who are try
ing so desperately to find loophole
to escape obedience to the nations
fundamental law find scant sympathy
in the South.
Walter Gain, Editor Of the Nashville
(Tenn.) Banner
The Banner is not in sympathy with
any movement to nullify any part of
the Constitution of the federal gov
eminent, nor are the people of this
section. President Harding will gain
friends in the South by vigorous en-
forcement of the laws of the country
and the suppression of revolt based
upon a fallacious Interpretation of the
state rights.
c. P. ]. Mooney, Editor the Memphis
(Tenn.) Commercial Appeal
Your statement that President Hard
Ing is insisting that states have no
right where the United States Consti-
tuition is concerned is an assumption
on your part. Your second statement
that il state rights mean nothing re-
earding the Eighteenth Amendment
. they mean nothing regarding the
Fourteenth Amendment is also con-
clusion you pull out of your mind
which has been twisted by preju-
dice. VS. eTJR kg9d
We have no fear that the United
States will attempt to enforce the
Fourteenth Amendment any more than
it has done in the past.
Down here we are observing all
the amendments to the Constitution;
that is, as much as anybody else is OBJ
serving them in any other part of the
country.
The trouble with you Baltimore boys
Is that you insist on looking through
the bottom of glass after putting its
alcoholic contents into your mouths.
You are all het up about New York
and Maryland. and what you sonsider
your inalienable right to lap up a lot
Of liquor.
Smith ought not to sign that Mullan-
Gage law. Get on the water wagon.
Join the Anti-Saloon League and i'll six
months you would prefer milk shake
to mint julep.
William Rule, Editor, the Knoxville
(Tenn.) Journal and Tribune
My only answer to yours dated
Yesterday is found in the official oath
required to be taken by president, of
which you have copy.
George Morris. Editor, The Memphis
tTenn.) News-Scimitar
Every amendment to the Consttu-
ton and even the Constitution itself
is a surrender by the states of certain
rights to the central government.
Therefore find nothing new or orig
inal on the presidents contention that
the individual states may not proceed
contrary to the provisions or the Cen
stitution. ,a,...
No Southern state has any statute
contrary to the provisions of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution 1t is I'M
fortunate that the states have sur
rendered the greater part of their SOW
ereigntN to the central government,
but they did it of their own volition
according to the method prescribed
for amending the Constitution. The
South supports the president and the
Constitution.
George James, Editor, The Norfolk
So ~ (Va.) Post '1