Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-03-13

one moral. Their standard OF re-
spectability and morality is based on
prohibition If you support the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol
stead Law you are qualified as honest
and efficient, no matter how much
you drink or what you drink, or any
thing else you may do.
When jefferson wrote the immortal
Declaration of Independence which
the venerable Gladstone asserted was
the most remarkable document ever
issued, he was keenly sensitive to the
significance of the words, "The right
to life, liberty, property and the pur-
suit of happiness are inalienable" and
undoubtedly he visualized the sad
spectacles often repeated in Europe
where homes were ramsacked, prem
ises searched, occupants beaten into
insnsibility and dragged to bastile
and allowed to rot in vermin cell.
jefferson planned to make the home,
however humble the hovel, a sacred
castle to which, even King dare not
enter without due process of law.
Lincoln, in an address delivered be-
fore the Washington Temperance So
ciety, among other things said, "The
Preacher, it is said, advocates prohi
bition because he is a fanatic, the law
yer, from his pride and vanity of hear
ing himself speak, and the hired
agent for his salary
During the same speech he said, at
is not the use of bad thing, but, the
abuse of good thing that causes our
trouble"
Free Speech
Last month a bill was introduced
to prohibit our people from advocat-
ing a change in our prohibition laws.
The fanatics seem to forget the his
tory of our country, particularly the
expression of Patrick Henry in the
Virginia State Legislature and others
Garrison published the Liberator in
Boston and Lovejoy published the Ad-
vocate in Alton, Illinois.
A rope was placed around Garri-
sons neck and he was dragged
through the streets of Boston to the
very spot upon which the first drop
of blood was shed for our independ
ence and he was asked if he would
stop his propaganda and he replied:
Gentlemen, | am in earnest. / will
not evade, will not equivocate, will
not retreat a single inch, will not
excuse and l will be heard" The po-
lice rescued Garrison and he was jail
ed and released in few days under
promise to leave the city. He left
Boston for a brief period of time and
returned and renewed his activity.
Lovejoy was mobbed and shot to
death and his printing press and ia
cilities were thrown into the Mississ-
ippi River.
The names of such martyrs are i'm
mortal while their enemies and mur-
derers have moldered in forgotten
graves.
There is no use of US playing the
part of an ostrich in such a serious
affair. A law prohibiting the discus
sion of the Eighteenth Amendment,
the Volstead Act, or our state en-
forcement acts will only aggravate a
bad condition and add another viola
ciples of "free speech and free
press"
A Sad Record
Our jails, reformatories for men
and women and our penitentaries are
gorged with victims.
In 1916 the Women's Reformatory
in Marysville, Ohio, had 80 inmates,
April l, 1924 they had 399.
Previous to prohibition the Colum-
bus prison contained about 100 in
mates. The last report I read stated
they had 1900 prisoners. The Lucas
County (Toledo) Jail opened its door
on two occasions recently to release
prohibition victims in order to make
room for more desperate characters.
In 1917 there were 146,16 prison
ers of all classes and IN 1922 there
were 1880 confined iii our penal in
stitutions. In 1917 we had 1868, in
1922 we had 4,197 prisons
At the three Federal prisons, At
lanta, Georgia; Leavenworth, Kan
sas; and Mcneil Island, Washington
there were confined 3,018 in 1917 and
5,540 in 1922, an increase of 1850.
During 1923 there were 389 murders
committed in Chicago, 308 in New
York, 210 in st. Louis, 180 in Phila-
delphia, 179 in Detroit, 121 in New
Orleans, 113 in Memphis, 85 in Louis
vile, SO in Los Angeles and "a in
Jacksonville, Memphis having the
plOCCiLcASC1 oCS-
ond, Nashville third and Louisville
fourth.
63,8O7 persons were admitted tc
almshouses during 1923 IN the United
States.
The Kelley Institute, liquor cure
located at Dwight, Illinois, was oblig.
ed to double its capacity since 1926
and moonshine and dope fiends are
waiting rooms at that institution.
Chicago suffered murder a day
during January.
The Eighteenth Amendment has
been in force over five years and con
ditions are far worse today than -four
years ago.
Taxes Increase Alarming
January 1924, the United State!
Government announced that "the ia,
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