Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-09

| try never could properly consider re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment
until some program to replace 1t was
| submitted.
"Sheer Political Expediency."
"You cannot ask the great Repub-
| lican party to advocate the repeal OF
| the eighteenth amendment and take
the ban off the liquor traffic unless
you present to the American people
something in the nature of a program
to take the place of the eighteenth
amendment"
Scoffing at the proposals for modi-
| flcation of the Volstead act as utterly
ridiculous" Senator Borah said 'this
| wouldn't stop the attack for one,
hour" and wouldn't keep the con-
| troversy out of the next campaign.
Modification under the Volstead
act" the Senator declared, us a mat
ter of sheer political expediency to
enable candidates to get by the cleo
ton without telling what their posi-
ton is upon the eighteenth amend
meut."
He agreed with DIR Butler that the
case is one that cannot be cured by
political soothing strip" and he
added, Certainly" the Republican
the next campaign upon the question
of near modification" OF the Vol.
stead act.
Born of Confusion"
Taking up the proposal to repeal
the eighteenth amendment, Senator
Borah said this seemed to him a
proposition born of confusion"
The Government control of the
| traffic. he held, would rot out the
pillars OF Government inside of half
| a century"
cit contains every evil and none of
| the virtues of prohibition" he assert.
ed, ''It would be bureaucracy and
| bureaucracy drunk"
Referring to the results of govern.
ment control in Canada. he said that
country has 1.-The same bootlegging
which was never so successful, SO
| lucrative and so impudent as it Is
under government control"
my friends" he said, 'let me pause
! here to say that there never has
been a system of any shape or kind
| introduced for the purpose of con
trolling liquor traffic that the liquor
traffic itself has not undertaken tC
pollute, corrupt and break down."
"OId Saloon Back
Government control, the Senator
argued, means "the old saloon back
again under another name"
| II am not welded to the eight
zenith amendment" he said. IF there
is any better way on earth to con-
troll the liquor traffic. I am for 1t
But | never would vote to put Uncle
Sam into the liquor business"
| If the Republican party should de-
clare for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment and substitution of Gov
eminent control, he declared, "it
would not carry single town out
side of a village over here by the
name of Manhattan, in New York
| The third proposal. In addition to
modification of the Volstead act, and
repeal of the amendment. he said, Is
that of disregarding law, which sis
undermining and breaking down"
Every man a law unto himself
disobeying all laws which he does not
like" he went on. And that condi-
require the Republican party to &C
on record in 1928"
Repeal Means Reaction"
| Repeal of the amendment, he con-
| tended, would mean a return to the
condition which prevailed prior tc
| It's adoption.
| There is in the United States. the
| Senator asserted, "a deliberate, or
ganized attempt" to nullify the Con-
stitution, as well organized as the
notification doctrine of John G.. Cal
| houn. And he followed by quoting
a debate between himself and Senator
Bruce on the floor OF the Senate
which he held supported this view
| when men upon the floor of the
Senate and throughout the country
are advocating defiance or nullifica-
! ton of the Constitution of the United
| States, 1 say there is only one thing