The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-12
WET CAMP Align
OPENS SUNDAY
AT DICKINSON
Stone, Stretch, Campbell and
Hardt Are Speakers at
Mass Meeting

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Dickinson, N. D., March 12.-lR3
Opening the campaign FOR the re-
peal Of the prohibition clause Of the
state constitution, four speakers adj
dressed mass meeting &c the arm.
Org here yesterday.
They were G. P. Stone. president
OF the North Dakota Better Citisen.
ship association and vet candidate
for the Republican senatorial NOM
ination; Charles Stretch OF Bottin.
eau county, wet candidate for the
Republican gubernatorial nomina.
ton; Wallace Campbell Of Biomarck
and Herman Hardt OF Nspoleon.
Herman Rabe Of Dickinson, . menu
Der Of the state legislature, was
chairman Of the meeting.
Chartine that tour lawmakers the
nation over scott ct the very law
they made for others to obey"
Stone declared the eighteenth
amendment and so-called enforce
ment act are merely the expression
Of . fleeting within that Is misguided
but well-organixed minority, By lob
bying. trickery, foisted upon the
. american !, people in IN ungusrded
Commenting on the manner IN
which the Volstead act WAS passed
over the veto Of President Wilson.
Stone said that 1893 congressman Is.
sented themselves from the house
when the vote on passing the bill
over the presidents veto was taken.
while It's voted for it, passage and
IS voted against It.
Indifferent to Law
"Citizens in every walk Of life
are Indifferent II not defiant to-
ward this law" Stone charged. and
averred that "our overworked courts
are becoming tribunals Of mockery
AID jest"
Stone said that he, q Z candidate.
IS for the modification Of the Vol.
stead act but against the saloon.
that he favors the McNary.Hauee
bill, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
waterway and cooperative market
ing and that he Is opposed to grant
ing milling in transit privileges to
Canadian grain in this country.
Stone said that IL either Of his
opponents for the Republican sena.
torial nomination will come out in
support Of the movement to revise
the volstead act he will withdraw
his candidacy and give that capdi-
date his support.
Stretch said he is willing TO 1t. nd
on the wet platform adopted At a
convention in Bismarck earlier in
the year and expressed his belief
that the eighteenth amendment lis
shield for hypocrisy and double
dealing. ! believe that Z law which
Is unenforced should b. repealed:
that our present prohibition amend
ment is just q meal ticket for the
bootleggers. It causes contempt for
law and increases taxes, drunken
ness and crime"
A Wide Difference
Declaring that he. believes in and
practices temperance, Stretch said
real temperance and prohibition
3 rot bed fellows and the differ
between them 10 % wide as the
Of North Dakota"
II his address Campbell charac-
ID the prohibition amendment
the Volstead act Is direct
s".s ~ Iue PeCDOuaI 1lOeTIy OF
rican citizens. He said the
ter Citizenship association be-
.eves in temperance in eating,
thinking. general conduct and in
legislation and quoted Abraham
Lincoln as having said: "A prohi-
oition law strikes . blow ct the
very principles on which our gov
eminent il founded. l have never
given my consent to such Z law.
Until my tongue shall be silenced in
Heath ! shall continue to fight for
he rights Of men,"
Denouncing the saloon % the
breeder and nursery Of crime, Camp
bell said the Better Citizenship as
ISOLATION opposes the saloon a.
strongly Is does the Anti-Saloon
League. He branded prohibition,
however, % tie father Of bootleg
gerry. Of blind pigs, Of stills, Of
moonshine factories, Of speakeasies
and hip pocket TASKS"