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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01

The point the Ant-Saloon League makes rs this: We
have hands at the present time, tremendous
battle If the drys will stick together, believe they
can win it. If they split know they cannot and we
insist that they shall not divide their forces and turn
aside fight another battle that others trying to
force upon this moment. One thing at time. We
can't fight both successfully and the fight in the defense
of the prohibition situation in the state of Illinois, does
and should take precedence everything else Fur
thermore we confident that this is uppermost in the
minds of our enemies we'll friends, and from
what know of politics have little doubt but that
is also uppermost in the minds of many of those who
are responsible for bringing other candidates into the
field
Question: Why not drop Smith and take up Magli?
Answer: 1t would be possible to do something like
that if the old powerful party organizations not i'll
operation. The Anti-Saloon League has had sufficient
experience know something of the power of these
CARNATIONS and realizes how fruitess it is at this stage
of the campaign under any pretext whatever to force
another candidate into the field
Vote for Frank L. Smith for United States Senator.
Beat Boss Brennan and Booze.
George B. Stafford,
State Superintendent, Ants Saloon League of Illinois.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
We Are Not Fighting Senator Magill

The Anti Saloon League is not fighting Mr.. Magill.
We are fighting Brennan Mr. Magi1ls entrance into the
field at this late hour is exceedingly iadvsed. 1t
only eliminate in embarrassment himself and to those
who are responsible for his The AntiSaloon
League has done everything it could to advise him in the
situation We have nothing but kindly feelings toward
him personally but we determined to do all in
power to prevent the development of the situation i'll this
contest which will produce the unfortunate results which
took place in Pennsylvania in the primaries of that state
We are sorry Senator Magil entered the field when he
did and we now feel that he should be fighting with
for the purpose of defeating Brennan rather than fol-
lowing the he has chosen, which, if effective, can
only succeed in splitting the dry vote and delivering the
state into the hands of its most dangerous political en-
emies.
Question: What have you to say in regard to Smiths
acceptance of money from Mr.. insult?
Answer: The AntSaoon League has nothing to say
in defense of the campaign fund stories in the case of
any of these candidates It's old story and is well
known in political circles common practices and has
been followed for many years. It is an o- which must
be corrected
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
BRENNAN TAKING LEAD
IN SENATE RACE
Democrat Sure to Win II MagilI Polls 15O,-
900 Cook County Votes; Forecast
The Same Old Thing

Thrty-one years ago influential and representative
body OF citizens in of the great midwest central
states said:
"Wc know the history of the liquor traffic. It has
been written in fe blood of its slain 1t the greatest
curse of mankndthe most bitter and relentless foe of
the Church Christ Entrenched behind the powers of
and protected by its laws, it strikes at the
very heart and life of the nation 1t controls councils
and assemblies legislatures and courts. 1t dominates
and dictates all the leading political patronage and
Behind the strong walls of political favor it has buded
its palaces established its dens of vice and in this
arena the temperance people meet this foe and de-
feat it,
This is the same old devil, outlawed and three
fourths dead which Mr. Brennan and his friends try
ing to resurrect
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01

be accomplished by the defeat of Brennan and
the election of Smith
Where do the vice and vicious forces of Illi-
nois stand in this campaign? What do they
want and demand?
They stand for the election OF Brennan and
every wet member of the legislature, sheriff and
Judge they can secure They want and demand
the return of the legalized manufacture and sale
of Intoxicating liquor to Illinois and America!
What will be the response of the voters OF
Illinois to their demand and desire?
Their answer must be given November Z,
as they stand alone in the polling booth with
their consciences and God.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
Change Officials, Not the Law

The constantly and insstently making the
charge that because the prohibition law is violated here
and there the law should be changed suit the require
of the awbreakers and those who in sympathy
with their demands.
To yield to this sort of pressure is to pave the to
anarchy by turning the government those of the
"baser Sort whose chief purpose in life to exploit for
gold and power the community and the state.
The test of righteous government is in Illinois to-
day as it has not been since Lincoln's time.
II the beer and wine" program of the vets wins out
at the polls Tuesday, November q it will be because
thousands of decent and women in Illinois asleep
at the switch in this critical hour. 1t will be because
large numbers of who sing, Onward Christian
Soldiers" on Sunday and MY Country IT'S of Thee"
Monday moral slackers and unworthy to calf
themselves Christian or American.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
The Present Political Situation in llli-
.anois; Time for Straight Thinking
:" and Prompt Action

In facing the puzzling and complex political
situation which obtains in Illinois in this cam
paign, many good people have become confused
and troubled as to what should be the action and
attitude of the voter who only seeks to serve the
public welfare.
To those in doubt as to the right course to pur-
sue, there are several vital phases of the situa-
ton that demand careful consideration by all
who are willing to think things through:
/. The question that bul<s largest in the
thought of the informed and conscientious vot-
ing citizenship of Illinois is the conviction that
the desperate endeavor to bring back the bev-
must be defeated.
2. This particular issue is more important
than any other now before the electorate OF Hi
nois and appealing for its vote; for by the defeat
of the liquor forces at the ballot-box on Novem-
Der "a whole group of social problems to which
Christian voters and good citizens generally are
commtted-will be thereby largely advanced to-
ward the goal of a righteous solution.
s. Only one great problem be settled at
time. Those who try to settle two at this cleo
ton are inviting defeat for both and are uncon-
scously playing into the hands of the Brennan
wine and beer program First things first!
4. The personalities however, of Smith and
Brennan are not the most important issue at
stake in this critical hour. The oyermastering
issue that ought to grip the heart and brain OF
every Christian patriot is the duty and privilege
of defeating the wine and beer program OF the
vets. That end in all human probability can only
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
Worth Thinking Over

With the confusion of thought often found even
among the finest characters and the most intelligent
people, it will often help to clarity the atmosphere and
enable us to make wise decisions if try to discover
how the opposition thinks and feels.
In harmony with the above fact of common expert
ence give below the headlines of first page article
from recent edition of the Chicago Daily Journal,
Democratic publication of October IA.
The headlines of the Journal follow and ought to help
clear away the confusion of thought in the minds of
some honest but disturbed voters
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01
The Only Way to Abolish Non-Binding
RefeYendums

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin last week held that
the proposed referendum to be submitted to the voters
il the November election the question of modification
CT the Volstead law is valid This to be expected
This doesn't mean, however that the court necessarily
indorses the referendum 1t does not make this pro-
posed the question OF whether the state o. Wis
consin is bound obey the federal law any legal
binding than it otherwise would have been 1t is alto
gether probable that the Supreme Court would have up
held proposed referendum the question of requiring
all men of Wisconsin to whskers, any other
referendum equally foolish.
This referendum in Wisconsin is absolutely without
binding effect and at the very best straw vote The
dry leaders urging that drys refrain from participant
ing in it. thereby showing up in its true light to be
just what is, roll cali of the vets. And this wise
these meaningless expensive and utterly useless reeren
dums. Court action is useless.
Non-participation in them will bring the desired re-
suit of eliminating them entirely.
All the evil forces and befogged and muddled good
citizens will vote election day in such way to
promote the election of Brennan.
All the will be at the polls election day.
Will you be there? Will you phone to your friends or
write them letter not to fail Illinois in this critical
hour?
Be sure and read the article "The Fuity and IL
legality of the Brennan Referendum" The text of the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Brennan referendum are
both included in this plain statement OF fact
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01

All the evil forces and befogged and muddled good
citizens will vote election day in such way to
promote the election of Brennan.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-11-01

notices for change OF ad-
unbelievable
Illinois should be addressed
the Illinois Security Bldg, Chicago Illinois
Evening star., 1926-02-07

TO go to heaven through their sheer
baptism or the great sages of the old
days through their records so the
answer of the missionary was upset
ting TO me. | even felt Indignation
could not quite figure out, but | felt
that something was wrong about il.
That cooled my fervor. ! was not
baptized. continued the study
through books, but my first emotional
zeal left me. 1t was years later that
| learned that the American mission
ary'S Interpretation was not the only
one about salvation in ChriStia nifty.
When | look back now, after the
lapse of over 20 years, | clearly see
the conflict that was going on in my
boyish mind unConSciously vet unmis-
takably. 1t was the conflict OF three
religions that IS now taking place in
a Japanese mind. My japanese tenn
permanent believed in salvation not by
faith but hy conduct. So | rcyolted
from the idea that anybody could be
salvaged through sheer baptism. The
dormant buddhism in me also inclined
to n universal salvation. Then, again,
my unconscious Shintoisn. with all
its reverence for ancestors. refused TO
accept II theology that drove iIluStri-
Gus ancestors from the blessing of
eternity. My subconscious Confucian-
ism and ShintoiSm could not accept
the idea of original sin So | went
away on the solitary road Of religious
quest.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Tiny Germs, Too Small for Microscope
To Disclose, Cause Many Animal Ills

Elusive, ultramiCroscopic forms of
life, minute as those which cause
smallpox, scarlet fever sleeping sick
ness and other diseases in human be-
ings, are responsible for many of the
diseases of animals, which cause an
inestimable loss each year to farmers
pof every country.
DR.. Hubert Bunyea, avian pathol-
ogist of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, reported to the
Washington Branch of the Society of
American Bacteriologists on the work
that has been done in the control and
eradication of these diseases in the
United States and other countries.
Rabies, foot-and- mouth disease, hog
cholera, fowl pest and birdpoX, he
said. are outstanding examples.
While the economic losses due to
rabies are not as great as some, it is
very prevalent disease. All man.
mails, including man, are susceptible
to it, 1t exists among the predatory
animals of the Northwest, and this
adds to its economic as well as its
public health aspect.
The disease has been deprived of
much of its horror by the discovery
of Pasteur that animals and people
could be rendered immune by re-
peated treatment with weakened
doses of the virus. But the process
is complicated and costly, and efforts
to simplify it and make it practical
for everyday use as a preventative in
the case Of domestic animals have
Evening star., 1926-02-07
REPUBLICAN PARTY SOLIDARITY
ASSURED DESPITE OPPOSITION
Coming Elections Will Find Lines of Alliance More
Tightly Drawn and Blocs Disappearing, Charles
ID. Hilles Believes.

vantage. If the much more difficult
question of agricultural relief could
also be approached without partisan
bias, and sound basis could be
reached for a developing and a perma-
nent national agricultural policy, that
achievement, taken in connection Wdth
the non-partiSan revenue legislation,
would be heralded as an American
political Locarno. Almost every pro
posal thus far made for agricultural
relief gravitates toward price-tiXing,
and price-tiXing runs counter to the
law of supply and demand, and leads
logically to dole.
The Democratic party, after the
debacle of the Madison Square con-
vention, is again faced with a di-
lemma. 1t can become more conserva-
tive il it will shake off the radical
wing or 1t can become more radical
by accepting the ideas adopted from
the Socialists by Tammany in New
York. It's aim seems to be to become
more Democratic, more itself, less a
composite party. 1t realizes that if
IL becomes more radical it is more
likely to gain the accession of the five
millions of voters who supported La
Toilette in 1924, and yet knows that if
ii does so it must still be in a hope
less minority in a time of uneXampled
prosperity. The Republican party in
1916 absorbed the Progressive party
by the nomination of Hughes. The
Democratic party in 1896 absorbed the
Populist party by the nomination of
Bryan.
Republicans may differ, but one
issue solidifieS them. That is the
tariff. They believe that a protective
tariff sufficiently high to cover the
difference between the cost of produc-
ton here and abroad is conterminous
with prosperity. They point to the
depressions of 1897, 1914 and
1919-21 as evidence. Democrats deny
that this evidence is convincing and
advocate a tariff for revenue only. 1t
is the one sure means of party solid
arity in this year 1926, when a new
House and one-third of the Senate
are to be elected and when the ad-
ministration of President Coolidge is
to be approved or disapproved. AS the
campaign proceeds it will be seen, l
think, that because of this issue eX-
traneous elements will merge them
selves into one or the other of the two
great parties, which, after all, are still
the sure means of Voicing something
more than a mere protest.
Copyright 1920
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Disarmament Is Ideal for America,
But Question of Bargains for Europe

to accord with its own interests
and to conflict with its rivals There
is the danger and the problem for
the United States in any European
conference and particularly in a con-
terence over issues which are mainly
If not exclusively European.
1t is not that Europe is dishonest.
insincere, wicked or designing 1t is
not that there is a conspiracy to
involve US in European complications.
1t IS not by any means that Europe
does not desire to see armies limited
and military and naval forces re-
duced. The fact is that. desiring all
these things more paSsionately than
we do, for none of them burden us
unduly or trouble us excessively, Eu-
rope can only approach the solution
in d European way and with regard
for European conditions.
distractions to L. =.
In the matter of disarmament we
are thinking of an abstract idea. for
there are no armaments in the world
which are for us more than abstrac-
tions. We are thinking of the re
duction Of armies as if it were. more
or less like the simple process of
signing the pledge to abstain from the
use of alcohol. The whole European
conception, that nothing can be ac-
compltShed save by a series of tre-
mendously intricate adjustments and
balancings. by far-reaching political
commitments, guarantees, treaties,
general agreements and private agree
ments. regional pacts and the like,
Is not only foreign to our Concep-
tions, but calculated to arouse our
suspicious and stimulate our instinc-
tive distrust of European methods.
What has disarmament, the moral
principle, got to do with the guaran-
teeing Of the Rumanian frontier along
the DnieSter, or the Polish frontier
at the Pinsk marshes? Why should
conference designed to reduce
armies and thus to insure peace find
itself dominated by discussions of
treaties of insurance like that which
Lloyd George and Mr. Wilson gave
Clemenceau covering the Rhine? Why
should Europe. as a whole, discuss
the limitation of armaments with un-
disguised concern for the situation
in case of a new war which all de-
spite the fact of an arms conference
and professions of love of peace, con-
tinue to regard as, at the least. a
possible catastrophe in any future?
Yet it is in this atmosphere and
under these conditions that Europe
win discuss the limitation of arma-
ments. 1t is in terms of these bal
ancing bargains that Europe will ap-
proach hesitatingly, if at ALL the
question of cutting down by a divi-
sion or abandoning an airplane
squadron. And it is in a welter of
conflicting and clamorous interests,
each seeking our aid, that an Amer
lean delegation must work, if at all.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Trade Commission to
Pass On s'Mahogany''

When is mahogany not mahogany?
The United States Federal Trade Com
mission is called upon to solve this
riddle. which has more than a little
commercial importance. There are a.
number of dark reddish tropical hard
woods that lay claim to this name,
which came to mean in woods what
sterling" means on silver, not long
after the discovery of America.
The first woods to be called mahog-
any were from the tree genus known
to botanists as Swietenia. The five
species in this genus have no common
English names, and their wood is
known simply by locality names, like
"Hunduras mahogany" Cuban ma
hogany," etc. Woods of similar ap-
pearance, though not necessarily of
the genus Swietenia, are marketed
under the trade names of philippine
mahogany" African mahogany" and
similar titles. The Federal Trade
Commission is now trying to decide
whether the use of the name "mahog-
any should be restricted to the single
genus that first made it popular, or
whether it should be broadly inter
preted to include all species now bear
ing it.
Evening star., 1926-02-07

MiscellaneOus.-The discussion in
the French Chamber of the supple
mentary tax proposals drags on
and on.
Apparently NJ. Berenger. the new
French Ambassador to the United
States. is awaiting the result of ex-
pected new Franco British negotia-
tions concerning Frances debt to
Britain before instituting new nego-
tiations concerning Frances debt TO
the United States. This year is
marked for France by the fiftieth an
niversary of the founding of the third
republic.
Lisbon has had another little insur-
rection, including a small military
mutiny. There was some exchange of
artillery fire between loyal and insur-
rectionary troops, resulting in the
wounding of six civilians, one serious
ly. The important instructors are
now in quod, and everything is hunky-
dory. The Portuguese insurrection is
an efficient and elegant sort of safety
| valve.
Austria's unfavorable trade balance
of 1925 was about half that of 1924.
Imports were cut down and exports
steadily increased. 1t is thought,
however, that further important cur
tailment of imports will not be pos
sible. Moreover, despite the above
showing, Austria is said to be un-
dergoing an economic crisis. Her
unemployed number 900. The
question of Austrian economy is still
emphatically a question.
In consequence of magnificent
crops, Hungary'S trade balance for
November, 1925, was a favorable one;
the first favorable balance since the
war Her 1925 wheat harvest COM
pared with that of 1924 was in the
ratio of 19 to IA. Rumania farei still
better, with a ratio of to =.
Dictator Pangalos has issued a de-
cree forbidding further enrolment of
monks in Greece. Heads of monas-
teries are commanded to dismiss all
monks under so years of age.
An interesting item comes from
Moscow to the effect that the Soviet
government is willing to barter the
crown Jewels of the car for Ameri-
can AGRICULTURAL implements and in
dustrial and agricultural machinery.
An estimate, said to be conservative,
gives the total value of the cZarist
collection as about $264,0 4,060,000.
The population of Moscow, accord
ing to a census just completed, is
2.225. 900. as against 1,61S,000 in 1920.
The marriage rate of the city is said
to be much higher than it was prior
to the war.
Turkey has adopted the western cal
endar,. no longer dating from the He
ira. The Mohammedan year 1874 is
our year 1926.
The Angora government continues
to punish Turks who refuse to wear
hats. The other day several recusants
were sentenced to death and others
to long terms Of imprisonment.
A new treaty between Great Britain
and Iraq has been signed by repre-
sentatives of the two nations and rati-
fed by the parliament Of 1raq. 1t now
goes before the Westminster Parlia-
ment. It fixes the relations between
Great Britain and Iraq so as to con-
form to the conditions attached to the
ward rendered by the league council
on the Mosul question.
Invitations are about to be issued
for pan-Islamic congress to convene
May 13 and to elect Caliph of Islam.
This is a news item Of the very flrst
Importance.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
BY CHARLES ID. .UILLES,
Vice Chairman Republican National
COmmittea

There is very little justification, in
fact, for the conclusion reached by
many persons that the union in the
Senate OF large body of Democrats
ana a smaller group Of Republicans
-or the purpose OF seating Senator
Nye is a significant development In
spite of the seating of Mr.. Nye and of
q sharp difference of opinion among
Republican Senators over the consti-
tutionality Of the method of ad-
herring to the world court, the indica-
tlons point to an increasing party inte.
grafton rather than to the formation
of new political alliances.
The Senator from North Dakota Sc
cured his seat by the votes of a com
b1halon OF the regular Democratic
minority and of q limited number of
Republicans who have an aversion not
only to the League of Nations but to
every branch and tWig produced by it.
The objective of the prO-Nye Repub-
llCanS had to do with the court ques-
ton: that of the Democrats was party
advantage. on the other hand. the
small minority that made u stubborn
stand against the court was composed
of Senators Of both parties who were
giving mutual aid on that issue alone.
There is no portention of Il great po-
iitiCal change in their banding to-
gether.
All elements of opposition in the
Congress to the Republican party as
now constituted seem to be suffering
from the inevitable reaction which fol
lows in the wake OF q menaCing third
party movement. Defeat OF the bloc
system in the House has resulted in
the Democrats becoming reluctant to
tie up to the La Toilette radicals in
order that they may preserve their
own identity. The La Toilette fol-
lowers, though parading under the
Republican name in Wisconsin, are
socialistic. Throughout the country
they succeeded in securing the in
dorsement, and later the absorption, of
the Socialist party. New York is the
notable exception to this. Here the
present Democratic party has accepted
the public ownership and public opera
tions nostrumS of the Socialists and
have annexed their vote.
An important result has been
achieved by those who are guiding the
tax bill through the two houses. quite
apart from the merits of the bill. An
economic problem is being solved
without any attempt to gain party ad-