, 1924-08-06
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
For REPRESENTATION

-Four and two years ago respectively when announced myself a candi
date for Representative, l said in substance that Prohibition a a farce,
unjust m tyrannicaL neve could or would be enforced, and that for a
lowed with a little "Knowedre that nngetb vn IN esthn t f% with wisdom
which edifeth" that Prohibition "a n o longer an issue; that it was the law
of the land and IS such, was disposed Of and that couldn't possibly be
I suppose this volunteered information a considered new to me, and
intended Int. IL IS a knock out blow! Can't be elected! Who expected to be?
progress in history is an education and a growth in time; that when one
unchanged nature will oon resurrect those institutions. The DESIRE and
AIM to raise a fine crop of citizens and induce progress and temperance is
not sufficient: o a it be done by LAW and FORCE!
Ann n Desire , will lot raise a fne crop of weat: a knowledge of the
can produce a wheat crop. So with the human plant. Aim and Desire,
a knowledge of the laws o nature and human nature will Temperance and
progress can not be injected by Law and Force from the outside, in; a
cbaract o. the indiyidneIs Which m ms. mn thatl nchetv ND Tto "h 4ou rm
and the wheat, this growth and development mfdds from the Inside, out!
And is brought about by education, right thinking and living, environ
ment and example: but never by Force and Legislation. Might never has
or will make right. Education and clean thinking will. never told these
individuals that you can no more make people kind, charitable, Industrious,
successful " temperate by Law than you IAN make them physically per
feet, o Mentally Sound. never told them that intelligence seeks a sound
free license and tn. saloon, and intolerance, represented by Prohibition on
the other That Abraham Lincoln said: Prohibition will work great injury
for it goes beyond the bounds If reason in that it attempts to control mems
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principals o m which u govern
a didn't tell these individuals that you can't create arbitrary crimes
from the Pigments If the imagination, and call a thing a Grim today when
world by 81 a reasonable fe majority M irh t r. a @u he So cvieeo o5n ne tbirpiaa neon 'e
that it is n o more moral or immoral to drink o refrain from drinking al
eOhOlie liquor, than it is to eat o r refrain from eating roast beef o r buck
1 didn't tell them that nearly all the good things of life have the ca
paeity for good a well as evil in them viz: water, fire, food, drink, books
the stage, love, marriage, religion, education, mar, woman, exercise, sleep,
vacations and the mind of MAI. Tina. this capacity for good and evil was
placed in the world by the Law of God, not man, who in tun endowed man
with the necessary equipment-reason and interigence-wth which to regu-
late and control his conduct. I did not tell them that the laws of God can
not be Repealed or prohibited by n act of Congress, o that all men should
not be deprived of their God given rghts-what to "a and drnk-simply
because on tenth of ont per cen of the population have abused theirs.
corrupting as the bushes Of prohibition enforcement 7 disDt tell them
that scientists have declared it would take $4,000 years to in any way change
the nature of a plant, yet the social doctors propose to change the ma
rd aiset OF t man tsa Oy a hs wh n a .Pa "a M "a an naa A' o DO, tons to IN ~ "a hours hours
force other people to think their way and have they succeeded? Did they
succeed with Coperincus, Galiho, Luther, Socrates, Bruno, Christ? The
Romans fed the martyrs to lions and Christianity fourshed! Did the in
QUESTION in Spain succeed? Did the massacre of ST. Bartholomew stamp
out Professionalism in France? Did England succeed with our forehthers in
.1776? And why did they lot succeed? Simply because Force is not an ar
able to govern themselves, their wives or their households take great pleasure
in regulating the Universe; that Legislators can't create a brand lew world
t tm' form mr n OF rean ias ryI iaws De l a nation ne" wh Mb" u i b . und ma prop phy ,m
were it posdble-woud become feeble and helpless: the way t. develop
strong legs is to stand on them didn't tell them, in the words of Prei-
dent Coolidge, that in a Republic the law reflects rather than makes the
standard of conduct. The attempt o dagoon the body, when the need is
to convince the soul vii. end in revolt; that Macauley, said, speaking of the
Puritan regime in England: Nothing is so CALLING to Il people Is a paternal
or in other words, a meddhng government: a government which tells them
what to say, eat, drink and wear; our fathers could not stand it two hundred
years ago and we are not more patient than they"
l didn't tell them, in the words of Thomas Huxley, that education is
clude not only things and their forces, but ne and their ways: and the
fashioning of the affections and of the will into a N earnest desire to be more
orm e sn hos bo only foundation in heir apaisor d emeo 10 !" tb %I as DSsm' w.
think it will work" but. that it is u by the laws of nature.
Suppose n does not know the physical laws of ventilation, digestion,
Temperance, etc, or the moral laws. will punishment follow? Do shakespeare's
characters or governments yer shove past consequences" and succeed? Is
there an exception to Naturs laws of Cause and Consequence? l didn't
tell them that Herbert Spencer said; that a knowledge of the laws of life
is more important than any other knowledge whatever-that the laws of
life underhe not only all bodily and mental processes, but by implication, all
the transactions IF the house M street all commerce, all politics all morals
and therefore without a comprehension of them neither personal or social
ton should be to produce a selfgoverning being; not to produce a being to
be governed by others" didn't tell them in the words of George Washing
That all the chaos existing in the world today is due o 10 other cause
than the attempt of mn to "pay the game" according to his W rules
laws and pet theores-based on greed, sefishness and power-instead of
"playng the game" according to the laws of naturea and having an earnest
desire to in harmony with those laws. That all men, and especially
politicians need more Of the attributes, courage and open-mndedness of the