The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-12-08
REVOLUTION
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Herbert Quick Discusses
Capitalization In u, S.
Government,
Pr HERBERT OTTTCK.

r. Asst OCTOBER Dr. Nicholas
III Murray Butler delivered an
81 address at Columbia Univer-
sity which attracted wide attention.
Millions read about it. Few read it.
This IS unfortunate. It was a very
able and thoughtful address and well
worth reading in full It is pub
Hshed as q pamphlet called The
New American Revolution"
Or Butler thinks we are ceasing
to be g. Federal republic and becom-
ing q centralized government. In
this he Is correct. lie mentions the
Fifteenth Amendment TO give the
suffrage to negroes as q case Of the
failure Of a Federal amendment to
accomplish its purpose, He IS cor
rect In this. too Probably he is
right in suggesting that the negroes
would have secured moro actual par
tlcipation by this time in govern
meut if the States had been allowed
to handle the matter IN their own
way.
Amendment Mistake
He believes that the Eighteenth
or Prohibitory Amendment was a
mistake ia the same direction and
that It may be doomed to become a
dead letter Ike the fifteenth. In this,
too he IS probably correct. IN my
travels about the country, I have OBJ
served what seems to me a complete
failure OF the Prohibition Amend
ment to do NOR ethan satisfy the dew
otees OF temperance BY law who are
comforted merely by the reading Of
the statutes forbidGing something 10
which they object. II has trans
formed alcoholic Indulgence from Ger
/ tain classes 10 others. In States which
/ before Federal prohibition was en-
/ acted there was scarcely any hip
pocket traffic, IT has become a part
Of the fashion Of society.
The evasion Of the law not only
covers the States in which prohibi-
: lon Us unpopular. but It has swept
over those whore formerly the Illicit
=-tll and the bootlegger were almost
. UEEuoWu. This IS sad, but I think
Il Is sadly true.
Or Butler thinks that the cause
of child labor regulation Will not be
advanced by the adoption Of the
child labor amendment. He thinks
that This cause viii surely triumph
z we depend on argument IN the re-
oa-"itrant States rather than resort
10 the building up Of another great
department In IS ashingt0n. The
. enactment Of q Law is traditionalIv
the abandonment Of argument In
this too. Mr.. Butler IS probably
/ correct And In his argument
I against the proposed appropriations
by Congress for education in the
States. I am sure he is right. Edu.
cation VIII almost surely be domi-
mated by the United States govern
ment If the business Of making an
. preparations for Il Is ever begun.
What we need IN education is the
rlght 20 make experiments and nos
slble errors locally. The dead hand
~ United States domination might
he The worst thing which could
happen to it.
Courts Take Lead
4 the remarkable thing about Dr..
/ Buffers address. however. consists
IN what he did not say. Is true
thar the United States Government
hos been marching right across the
whole field Of Government for a
century, Rur tts chief leader has
been the Teleral courts. and NOT
ConErs-s. But i 7 remember Dr.
Butler was bitterly opposed always
.o auE Tin5ullrtor1 Of the mower NJ