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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
BISHOP VIM. F. MCDOWELL
Resident Bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Wash, ID. c.
"The Cause Needs Youth

al now say in plain speech that We
arc not done and we do not intend 10
stop. We are still going somewhere,
and we pretty clearly know where we
arc headed. We know rather better
than our fathers did.
In the first place we arc gong 10
enlist the youth OF this generation to
carry forward this reform IN con-
structive way, 10 help build nation
without putting into il any OF the I'M
Trustworthy, rotten material that was
in Tor so long and that came so near
running us. For you cannot build a
sound economic house II you put
blood money. or license money, or
profits from crime into foundation or
walls The liquor dollars at every
stage of its circulation was tainted
and putrid and could not ind a clean
place in honest commerce.
Our work has largely been the dc
struction of that old traffic. We have
nearly grown old in the task. 1t is the
fate OF such reforms that they do pass
into the hands of men who grow old
without knowing it. 1t is more than
forty years since Howard Russell and
| went together from Oberlin TO Co
lun,bus to take one more OF those
early steps that led to the Anti-Saloon
League. We did not look quite as we
look now. We had then youth and a
day.
"Thc echoes of the past within our
brains.
The sunrise OF the future on our
faces
THE Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation and many OF the Young Peo-
pies societies are i'll danger because
their blood has grown old IN their
veins. The same danger threatens us.
And one OF our next great tasks is
this task of making this appeal in at
tractiveness and power to youth. The
cause needs youth and youth needs
the cause
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
No Wet Speakers Ever Cursed Sa-
loon Until They Were Out
of Business

Il shall not be satisfied until every
minister declares from his pulpit that
he is a total abstainer, until every col
lege president and teacher shall make
such a declaration before his students.
Il believe the time has come when
the President for this nation should
rise up and protect the homes of the
nation, and tell other nations that they
cannot protect by their flags conspir-
acy against the laws of the United
States.
Changes in international relations
call for corresponding changes in in
ternational law. If the three-mile
limit is not sufficient the limit should
be moved back to twelve miles, and
if twelve miles is not sufficient the
limits should be moved back until the
distance is sufficient.
1T is interesting to note that when
ever anything great has been done
in this country all good citizens have
united without regard to politics and
taken care of the matter in the right
manner. This is especially true in the
case of the prohibition amendment
The vets say that the peoplosnevcr
had chance. There never was a
time when more chance was given
than on this subject. Ohio has voted
on il seven times.
NO wet speaker cursed the saloon
until after they were out OF business.
1t is an afterthought and hypocrisy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
WILLIAM SNOWDEN SIMS
Rear Admiral United States
Navy, Retired .
mo Nation Can Long Resist the
Determined Moral Conviction
Of Its Young Men"

The following is an excerpt from
the address of Rear Admiral Sims de.
livered under the auspices of the In
tercollegiate Prohibition Association,
which meeting was held in connec-
ton with the Anti-Saloon League
Convention.
his democracy must not be al
lowed to fail, but it cannot succeed
unless and until the people realize the
sanctity of law and recognize that a
government official who violates his
oath to defend the constitution is a
very dangerous criminal,
No nation can long resist the de-
termined moral conviction of its young
men.
The future is in your hands, young
men. More than to any other class
OF citizens today it is up to you. Yours
is great opportunity. Also a great
responsibility. This responsibility is
individual but it is not equal. 1t is
principally upon your leaders; who
are the student leaders in your col
leges. You know who they are and
they know who they are and what
their moral power is. Besides honest
thinking their essential qualification is
courage, the kind OF courage to do
right, to practice self-control in re-
sistine the ever present temptation.
and particularly to disregard adverse
comment. My final appeal is to the
student and particularly to the stu
dent leaders,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
NO BOOZE ON OR OFF
CAMPUS, u. OF. c. TOLD

Chicago Evening American)
a warning to all University
OF Chicago students against
drinking, either within the ad
ministrative territory OF the in
stitution or outside of it, was
given by President Ernest d.
Burton in a statement printed
in the Daily Maroon. 1t reads
as follows:
"The administrative officers OF
the University of Chicago re-
gard the use of intoxicating liq-
nor by students as physically,
intellectually and morally dan
gcrous, and as contrary to the
spirit of the law OF the land.
They therefore believe that it
tends TO defeat the purposes OF
education.
"The university will not toll
crate the use of intoxicants by
its students on the territory sub
jcct to its government, and will
exert its influence to discourage
such use by them elsewhere"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
and the indiyisiblc union of the

and the indiyisibe union of the
States
"What about the -smugglers
lowering along our coasts? Why the
Constitution gives Congress power to
define and punish piracies and felones
of the high seas, and offenses against
the laws of nations! Congress out
lawed slave-runners as pirates and set
our war vessels to hunt them off the
high seas. 1t can do the same with
the rum-runners nowl
1T is an offensc against the laws
of nations to use a friendly nations
flag to cover violations of the laws OF
another nation. Let Congress make
ii so now
What about the scandal of diplo-
matte infraetions Of the prohibition
law Of this nation?
president Pierce, on May. 1856, re
voked the exequators of the British
consuls at New York, Philadelphia
and Cincinnati, and OH May %, an
nounced to the Congress that 4 have
ceased to hold intercourse with the
Envy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary Of Her Majesty the
Queen of the United Kingdom OF
Great Britain, and ireland near this
government What was their Of
Tense? Simply approving recruit
ments of men in this country to fight
for Great Britain in the Crimean
war.
president Cleveland in 1888 ordered
his passports handed to Lord Sackville
West, the British minister, for what?
His interference by advice and coun-
sci with the suffragcs OF American citi-
zens n gross breach OF
diplomatic privilege and an invasion
OF the purely domestic affairs and es
sential sovereignty Of the government.
How much more fiagrantly are those
things done by diplomats who violate
our present prohibition laws?
The sovereignty and integrity OF
the Constitution in no particular must
be bargained away for any political
expediency or advantage. No more
can it be traded by treaty, Tor no
treaty can ever be valid that allows
to be done what the Constitution ex-
pressly forbids
Let us send out to the people the
patriotic slogan: The Constitution
must be enforced and obeyed in letter
and spirit! and the great host OF
honest Americans will rally to it as
the clans rallied to the call OF the
horn of Roderick DhuF'
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25

spirators who have openly declared
the Eighteenth Amendment not only
cannot be enforced but ii shall not be
enforced, The negro bootlegger. skulk-
ing in the dark alley, the bcllboy
sneaking about hotels the society girl
or woman with her silver flask, the
banker with his private cupboard Tor
his special friends, the family with its
home brew fixtures, the moonshincr
in the mountains, the smnggler on the
sea, the highjaeker and his pals, and
the murderous thug armed 10 the
teeth dashing along the highway in
high powered cars loaded with liquor
all alike are equally conspirators to
nullify the Constitution OF this coun
try. And all alike of every rank and
station should be made to realize that
the punishment for their lawlessncss
will be sure and severe.
The men and the women who buy
smugglcd or moonshine liquor and
thus encourage the outlaw traffic are
responsible before Almighty God for
the crime. even the horrible murders
committed by these outlaws, and they
will not escape it before the Judgment
Bar of God, even if they do not cs-
cape it.
Platform, pulpit and press should
thunder condemnation OF these law
breakers OF every age, station and sec
ton. and Danish from our land the
enijoking, seini-sneering, attitude to-
ward violations of the prohibition
law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25

Following the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolutions of 1903, the Hart
ford convention of 1914, the South
Carolina notification Of 1882 and the
Civil War of l86l-o5, the constitutional
integrity of the nation is a fifth time
put OH trial by resurgent conspiracy
OF liquor rebels seeking to annul the
Eighteenth Amendment and defying
the enforcing laws and officials.
These outlaws must be beaten into
submission to the peoples constitu-
tional will at any cost and by the Use
of every power in the federal govern
ment-even to the army, the navy and
the militia.
Washington used the military
power to destroy the Whisky Rebel
lion in Pennsylvania in 1894 at a cost
OF Sl,50O,000; and that was scarcely
more than family ruction in a back
yard compared with this rampant re-
bellion of the rum-regicides all over
the Union today. Jefferson was au-
thorized to use the navy and military
powers to enforce the embargo laws
in 1903. Jackson ordered war-ships
into Charleston harbor to compel
obedience to the law of the nation in
1888.
why do we make the president
swear to preserve, protect, and de-
fend the Constitution unless he is
thereby bound to do those things? In
his hands we have put the sword of
our national power. He can make it
the commandant of obedience, or the
Joab blade that will stab the Constitu-
ton into coma or to DEATH If more
legislation is needed to do this work.
ask Congress to enact it. In the
meantime the president should use all
the power he has.
This issue is vital 10 the faith,
hopes and loyalty of those major mil
lions of Americans who have PRAYED
and fought for half century to law
fully abolish the liquor traffic.
And let not anybody, whether out
laws, officials of government, courts.
or conspirators high or low, believe
that the present seeming lethargy of
the people means that they will much
longer submit to violations of their
Constitution. Let them beware lest
it be really that ominous calm por-
tending revolution, which precedes the
tornado of the tropics, when it seems
i'll conflict with gravity itself and ap-
pears to swing the reeling earth from
its orbit
We intend to have our rights under
the Constitution even at the cost Of
another war for the honor OF the flag
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25


pioneers in the active service OF the
League was Rev. NJ. II. Ewera. the
first superintendent OF this organiza-
ton in Illinois.
Rev. NJ. II. Ewers was living in
Tuscola, H., when made State Super
intendcnt by DR.. Howard II. Russell
in 1893 and conducted the work from
that city for a few months, later NOV
ing his family to Springfield where
the Leagues headquarters were estab-
lished and maintained until removed
to the city OF Chicago.
He did not take up this work unpre-
pared and without experience, as DR..
Smiths article suggests, He was IL
censed to practice law in Illinois be-
fore entering the ministry and,
throughout his ministerial work pre-
ceding his appointment to the super
intendcncy of the League he was con-
stantly waging war upon the saloon
evil and law violators OF every de-
scription. In nearly every town where
he lived as a pastor he was the insti-
gator and organizer of Law and Or
der Leagues" these organizations usu-
ally resulting in many convictions and
many cleanup crusades.
When he took up the work under
the direction of the national organiza-
ton he was able to take personal
charge of the lave enforcement depart
ment, even going into court in various
county seats of the state to aid the de-
tectivcs in giving their evidence and
to protect them against the attacks of
the liquor and gambling elements, for
the work was a real fight then.
He was repeatedly forbidden to
stop at hotels, was threatened with
death, often being compelled to ask
for police protection when going out
of town after appearing in court. His
fearless disposition enabled him TO get
through the two years of hard work,
but it prevented his securing sufficient
funds to properly carry on the work
consequently he suffered financial loss
an d returned to the pastors study
poorer than when he left it.
Rev. NJ. II. Ewers died in the Wes-
ley Memorial Hospital, Chicago. April
10. 1917. AT the time of his death he
was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Ramsey, Ill.
His widow, Mrs. Jennie F. Ewers, is
now living in Charleston, Ill.
M. II. Ewers was born in Marietta,
Ohio, April 20, 1880. Secured his edu-
cation in the public schools of Rich
land county, Wisconsin, where his
parents lived for time. At the age
of 18 he came to Edgar county, ILL.,,
where he taught school and studied
law, was admitted to the bar in, ILL
nois, and practiccd for a time in the
partnership formed with the late JOS
eph Z. Dyas in Paris. In 1882 he en-
tered the Illinois Methodist Confer
ence. of which body he was constantly.
a member until about 1896 when he
transferred to the Southern Illinois
Conference of the same church.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
Dan MORGAN SMITH
Must Be Enforced or Repealed

Nowhere in our country is there a
wet seriously contending that prohibit
ton can be repealed. Every effort IS
directed at the evasion OF the law. The
only thing upon which the wet gen
erals are agreed is that the old posi-
ton must be regained.
"Thc counter attack OF the enemy is
inevitable, the danger thereof must be
discounted.
This opposing army is composed
OF some folks who think more OF their
stomachs than they do OF their Consti-
tuition. OF some folks who think more OF
individual liberty than they do of ma.
tional perpetuity, OF some politicians
who can only make an effective APP
peal for political support when they
have one foot on railing.
Among their ranks we find the bar
tenders and the saloonkeepers actu-
ated not altogether by greed, but also
by the desire TO regain lost political
prestige; lighting for the return of the
old days when aldermen, Legislators,
governors, members OF the House and
Senate courted their support. OF
course, this great wet army are the
former wholesale liquor dealers, brew
ers and distillers.
"The Ant-Saloon League is not
afraid of this army. We have whipped
them in the sklrmsh for local option,
we have whipped them in over thirty
battles for statewide prohibition, we
have whipped them in the great drive
for the Constitutional Amendment and
this whole force cannot successfully
counter attack-We can whip the pro-
fessional vets again!
when the father laughs at the pro-
hibition law, the son laughs at the
speed laws, the neighbor laughs at the
laws Of property and the Red laughs
at all laws. Better quit laughing at
laws!
Put the citizen-bootlegger in the
pen and when he comes out he Is no
longer a citizen. II he is foreigner
send him back TO the country he came
from and never let him make another
track in this country!
The man who buys liquor from the
bootleggcr is no better than the boot
logger, and he should not be received
in decent society, nor recognized in
the business world, nor elected to Of
fec; he should be arrested and tried
and sentenced to the penitentiary
along with the bootleggers@
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
FIRST LEAGUE LEADER
HAD HARD STRUGGLE
Often Risked Life in Fight for Dry
Cause

The coming anniversary celebration
in honor OF the Illinois Anti-Saloon
Leagues twenty-five years of progress
draws attention to the carly days in
the fight of the churches against the
liquor traffic.
Five years after DR.. Russell founded
the AntiSaloon League, Illinois was
organized as part OF the army of the
churches for prohibition. Among the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25
JAMES CANNON, R., D. D.
Bishop. of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South
Punishment for Lawlessness
Should Be Sure and
Severe"

There must be demand that all
liquor lawlcssncss be recognized for
what it is. Not as a trfing small Of
Tense to be dismissed with shrug or
smile or joke or sneer, but a
part OF a conspiracy to nullify the
Constitution OF our country. The con-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-01-25

II you think prohibition does not
prohibit, ask the rum-running vessels
which line the Atlantic Coast near the
shores of New Jersey and New York.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
CONDITION OF COUzENS
Michigan Senator Is Taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital To tndeTgo Mcdi- cal ObNcr,atiUil.

Washington, April fl, -- Senator James CouHcns of Michigan, who has hCcn slA"ring from bladder and in- tcstinal Trouble, Was removed today 10 Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore for further observation.
 Whether an carly operation will be performed will be decided by Dr. Hugo A. l'rcund ot Detroit, the Cou- zcns family physician. and Drs, Fin n"y and l'utchcr at Baltimore.
 senator Couacns spent q very com fortablc night" said Il statement is- sued from his office. His pulse and temperature remained at normal His considered him well enough today 10 take him to Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore for further obser- Nation.
 "'fho condition is undoubtedly a re- currcnCc Of an old gall bladder infec- tion for which he waa op"rvtvd son three years nC0, Whether un opera ton will bc performed soon or do- frrrcd mtil' some timn latrr will hc decided upon by Drs. l'inncy Butcher and FrGcnd in few days.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
25 Fears Ago To-day
ITaken from Herald Of that date

The horse attached to John Con Ions milk team made things lively on South Main street this morning. The animal overst cppcd the thiIls and only the good judgement Of the driver pre- vented q serious runaway. The annual call. for inc eft meeting will be issued by City Clerk Alfred l.. Thonipson tomorrow. II was stated today that inc matter of purchasing q patrol wagon and an ambulance for inc police department will be brought before Inc meeting. It is expected. however that this matter will be pared of as the general desire seems Co be to keep the tax 10 i1i. mills.
 W l. Isawlinzs md the Globe Clothing Hoi.se are among those who have contributed prizes to be given to inc winners or the shooting tsur- ns mcnt being held by Company I. .C. \. G.
 Assurangas have been pouring in to Grand suh Chief Ranger W. r. Doe lancy of tho r. of X. that hc will be riccf~d 10 the nficc of chief ranger at .ha convention tO be held in Meridcu soon.
 Tho Hotef rus-win was called ou today to accommodate loo guests. The hotcI last night YVES crowd 70 ifs capacity and many were turned away.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
Observations on The Weather

Washington. April 1s.-Forccast for southern New Engiand: Gcner- ally fair and cooler tonight and Tues day: fresh, possibly strong northwest winds.
 For Connecticut; Generally fair end cooler tonight and Tuesday,; fresh and possibly strong northwest winds
 Conditions: The pressure is high over Michigan and Georgia and low over Maine and Utah. Light scat tered showers have occurred during the last 24 hours in the eastern por- ton of the Lake region. in New Eng land, along the Gulf coast and in the Mississippi valley Mild tcmpcra- tupres prevail in all sections cast of the Rocky Mountains. except the northern portion of the Lake region.
 Conditions for this vicinity generally fair weather with slightly lower tenn pcraturo Tuesday.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight and in southeast DOT ton Tuesday: fresh, possibly istrong northwest and north winds.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
Incolisi,iciatc.

My wife annoEs me exceedingly. She is most inconsidcrato Of my feelings, .. When, for instance, l am seated in my easy chair, in the middle or an interesting story. she will shovel quantities of rattling, noisy coal into the furnace, causing horrible grinding sound, most unpleasant and disturbing.
 At other times when I wish 10 lie quietly amid the cushions of the chaisc tongue, 1 hear her toting up great buckets of coal for presumable use in the kitchen. Sometimes she slips, falling down inc basement stairs with hods and coal on top of her. making a horrid clattering that sadly disturbs my state of mind.
 When I would doze by n sunny window, or loll at ease in inc enjoy mont of cigar. I hear her smashing mp boxes with an enormous axe, seemingly for kindling wood, or beat ing mp great, dusty rugs outside.
 My wife annoys mo exceedingly.
 C. G. SHAW.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14

whom cnrployts Of the bureau ca- tablished to serve the crippled, the disabled. have to be rcprimIndcI Tor the lack Of understanding they shO" toward the most heavily handicapped Of former service mcn' That such a condition should exist is unthink1blc. Shame on such em?;oyc&--"nd shame, too. upon any man or woman who adds by one d:scOurtcous word O. ac:jOm to the former fighters s"nsn o1th" in- justice of the treatment acn1r'h,d him here in inc land he loved and for mhich he offered his life.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-14
I.!Ni .ii.I:ihG

! Ag.im when weary of tj" day of
 politics and such. wr .start tAr car of memory; sit back; throw in tlo ri0;ci. and let the uutofaobilc side ;lnus tht'
 slow dgc.ido--a pGa.t.r o. c..3;ury
 to eight, ,cn-rinc.y-niac, Tho.r ':cr" ihc days of duIing d.cd+; of vs.lor's i mighty hour-thr G,,ya Hr r"min.scr
 about--Nhcn kn.gatho"l w&s in
 flower. B~t perhaps it w"su't exactly . l,nighthood we're ttl,h@ aDoct for < hniGLtnood, Of cour-a. iI"ana th"r"
 WAS a King som. where h@nsju" around the prrmiscs and wo,r" of kings.
 But anyway it's pheasant 10 turn back the pages of time, more or less dos-carcd perhaps CT signed by actual or spiritual fires we've been through. and read about two Of o@r wc.l-known citizens showing mental alcrtrrss ac- companicd by energetic physical uc- ton in the interests of living things
 that could neither east ballot nor buy goods-livin@ and breathing things that could not speaking their
 thanks nor give q man any material return for being good to them.
 We arc referring today, in our en- dcavor to brush away any morning after" atmosphere which may sill dlm tho Iustcr of our bright New Britain skies. 10 a thoughtful get and kindly one performed by two men we all
 know whcn fire broke out here n years ago. Probably it was quite some fire and WIG didn't have any two platoon system those days because if we had had it the young gentlemen we're writing about possibly wouldn't have had the chance to show their presence Of mind and energy of ;sctiOn. But what's the Use Of trying to paint the lily--what's the use adding our poor words to the eloquent ones of our predecessors of T quarter Of q century ago, reprinted under the heading "25 Years Ago Today" in the Herald of last Saturday. for those were the days of daring deeds, of valors mighty hour--the days wc rcminscc about when knighthoed was in flower.