The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-06
Borah's Broadsidc.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)


 Senator Borah at Cleveland Friday told several thousand members of the National Grange that prohibition must be enforced or be removed from the statute bookS-must be ended, in one way or another He asserted it to be his belief that il possibly can be enforced and is in favor Of intensive effort To accomplish actual enforce ment But the Senator admitted that it would be Tar better to take the Eighteenth Amendment out of the Constitution and repeal all prohibition laws than To have that Constitution made thing of scorn and mockery
 The Senator has observed the effects of this law upon the home the industrial, the political life of the people He admits the corruption il has caused in the judicial. legislative and en- forcement branches of city, State and Union. Under present conditions he sees the Nation be- ing destroyed by the vices and crimes and dis respect for law oosed upon it by the Eighteenth Amendment and the enforcement laws. And SC he says the laws must be repealed enforced We have. he says, arrived at the parting of the ways. We must make choice.
 He says the political parties will sidestep the issue. They probably will do so until forced to act But the tide of popular protest against this vast iniquity is fast rising.
 The recent Congressional election in Colo rado the decision of the Supreme Court in the Tumey case, with the resultant overwhelming de feat of the Marshall law; the prosecution of Shu maker in Indiana and the overthrow in that State of the twin curses which had marred it; reputaticn--the Anti-5aloon League and the kr
 
 agents for murder in the first degree the re- vusion and defecton of powerful papers formerly ardent and loyal supporters of the League; the change of sentiment in the South with respect to the candidacy for the Presidency of Governor Smith, of New York; the impending investigat on in this State of the Prohibition Department and the League; the awakening of the womanhood of the Nation to the fact that sinister political Organization has been making use of them to at tain it's ends at the expense of every principle lof republican government--al of these things are signs of coming dispensation Senator Borah sees this He still believes in the policy of prohibition and the possibility of it's enforcement, but demands that'a better show, ing be made or that the policy be repudiatec by the removal of the Eighteenth Amendment from the Constitution and repeal of the Vol stead law.
 Driven into corner. at last, the senator said also that if the Fifteenth Amendment IS being nullified claimed, 1t, too, should De enforced or repealed; that the same energy and power of national resource for such purpose should be applied to the Fifteenth Amendment as to the Eighteenth.
 He failed to say this some months ago when speaking in Southern city and demanding the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment He sees now the handwriting on the wall He knows that the Fifteenth Amendment has been nulfed for many years.
 But ingenuously--though the matter is of per tinent significance Senator Carter Glass, of Vir- ginia, last week proclaimed that State had the right to restrict and control part of it's electorate which was simple, ignorant and unftted to exercise the franchise, no matter what the language of the Federal Constitution might be!