The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-11-02

: The most momentous moral issue which American voters
have faced in this generation confronts us at this election.
l. The Return of the Liquor Power
Smiths election would mean the return of the liquor power with
all the concentrated infamy which that term implies.
The liquor power of the preprohibiion years comprised a triple
alliance between (a) the liquor interests, OBJ predatory wealth, and ()
Amendment aimed to destroy, is being reformed to batter down Ma.
(a) The liquor interests will be back in the saddle if Smiths pol
icy succeeds. The breweries will corrupt politics as before. The traf
pfc in liquor will proceed unhindered by governmental barriers.
If Smith gets his way the states themselves will promote the sale
of the products of the breweries and the diaileries.
OBJ Smiths campaign has brought into bold relief the menace of
the domination of government by unprincipled wealth The Assoda-
ton Against the Prohibition Amendment boasts that its directors
serve on boards of corporations aggregating 40 billions of capital
The imminent peril is from those malefactors of great waltz who
contemptuous of obligation to public welfare, combine to legaHze the
enslaver and destroyer of mankind. Having seized the presidential
nomination of a great political party they seek to lay hold on the pesi
dency itself to carry out their nefarious detectives.
() The most notorious and continuously corrupt machine in the
history of America will be elevated to supreme power in the national il.
Smith, its scion, is elected, Tammany has not changed.
Similar to Tammany is the political machine of Jersey City. Smith
chose the boss of that machine to be Vice Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee after he had chosen to be Chairman a Republican
officer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment who said
Every voter should be awakened to a realization of the terrific
consequences to III country if the reorganized liquor power should
gain control of III government.
H.. Liquor Champion in the Presidency.
Smiths election would mean the foremost liquor champion in the
presidency-the position of greatest influence in the world. The most
distinguishing feature about Smiths whole career is his long continued
N unremlttng championship OIL liquor.
Smith bludgeoned the state enforcement act He abolished penal
tions. He deprived the state courts of power to punish for violations
of the Eighteenth Amendment. He bestowed freedom upon the boot
leggers, but withdrew from the citizens the protection OF the state
against bootleggers!
Ill. The AnnihIation of Prohibition.
Smiths election would mean the annihilation of National Prohibi
methods of change mean nothing less than annihilation-
Do not be deceived by the besuilins words of those politicians who
say that Smith cannot break down Prohibition because a dry majority
A determined wet of Smiths type S President could Sc administer
Prohibition as to bring it to naught. Every student of the subject
knows that Prohibition is not sefenforcing. 1t requires not merely
legislation but prominently administration Its chief handicap thus
far is that it has lacked a united party back of it to administer it. To
subject Prohibition to the administration of its avowed and determined
enemies is to destroy it.
Could the embodiment of the wet hope. the tmplacabIe enemy of
prohibition be trusted to enforce a law he seeks to destroy? An agrees
President dominates his whole administration. he controls 4ooOO
5000 in the Department of Justice alone. Would his ap-
and who a remove them? The federal offices would swarm with
Prohibition would be massacred.
w. Tanmany Methods At Washington.
Smiths election would mean Tammany methods at Washington.
Tammany compels obedience. If its creatures do not do its biding,
Governor sulzer because he refused to obey Tammany? Although
'ammany did not have votes to do it along, Smith got some pocurable
republican votes to help impeach the Governor
Smith as party leader al practically compel the Democrats to do
bidding. If dry Democratic Congressman refuse, they can be denied
he privilege of distributing postoffices and other party patronage. A
ecalcitrant Congressman will not get his bills passed. His constitu-
omination.
Furthermore. when twothrds of the Democratic Congressman are
into line, Smith through the caucus would be able to WELD his
party vote in Congress. The Democratic Congressional caucus
lles provide that when twothhds of the caucus vote for a certain
leasure, all of the party members are bound by the caucus decision
Will his party compelled to line up behind him, a Tammany pesi
ent, long experienced in Tammany's peculiar methods of merging wet
votes INTO part nnl ~ us" pona1t;os oou1d !,
ongress and obtain almost any law which he desires. penalues could !"
rcement discontinued repetition and enlargement of the New a
ok notification.
V. Lawessness Rampant.
Smiths election would mean lawlessness rampant. 1t would mean
ctory for the worst elements. 1t would be a signal for the under
to become more emboldened and outbreaking. 1t would unleash
e baser appettes. 1t would mean a moral setback from which we +
oud not recover for a generation.
W. Government by the Worst
Smiths election would mean government by the worst 1t would =
wer the quality of American craftsmanship. 1t would cause a deter
ration in public officials. 1t would discourage high class young men
ON entering public life. It would hinder the solution of complex ma
problems. The advocacy of a policy by which the government
debaucb its W citizens could not help but engender dsrespect
+ government.
VII America DHsgraced. II
Smiths election would mean America disgraced in the eyes of the
rid, a moral rerogression, a collapse of ideaism, a base surrender
the old alcohol traffic which has destroyed men and nations down
e centuries. III
HE SHALL NOT PASS! ii
zip administer the most decisive defeat a major party candidate has
ever received. II