Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-13

amendment Is to protect the American
home
I'm his speech of acceptance he said
that he looked back with satisfaction
over the Republican record during the
last seven and a half-years.
Assails G. o. p. Record.
I'm view of that record, can he con-
scientiously say that the Republican
administration has so enforced the
| eighteenth amendment as to make 1t
any degree whatever of protection to-
the home? In view of the record /
| laid before the people In Milwaukee
a little over a week ago, how can any
candidate for any position on the Re-
| publican ticket speak about the sacred
obligation to secure honest enforce
ment?
1.-THE Republican party has made pro-
hibition the foot ball of politics A
former Republican enforcement agent
referred to it as the new political pork
barrel. Graft, corruption, bribery, on
| wholesale scale have been the his
| tory of attempted enforcement under
| Republican auspices. The record shows
that we have never have had prohibition
In this county in the sense that hard
| liquor was banished from it. There is
as much If not more liquor in this
country today than there was in the
e-prohibition days. We have not
achieved temperance under the present
system. On the contrary, the wide
spread disregard of the prohibition law
is today undermining respect for all
law.
1.-THE Republican candidate himself
admits the abuses that have grown up
around it, but instead Of suggesting
remedy, which he is either I'M
willing or unable to do, he expresses
just the faint hope for its future
success.
IT have definite ideas about the eight
zenith amendment and the Volstead law,
and as husband and father, / have
as much interest in protecting the
American home as any man in the
United States. ask that the prohibi-
ton question be treated in accordance
with the JefferSonian theory of State
rights. This great section of the coun-
| try through which / have been travel
| ing for the past two days during all
of its history has been devoted to the
Jeffersonian principle of State rights.
I think you must admit the great
| difficulty of securing cooperation from
the rank and file of our people for a
reasonable, fair and just enforcement
of the prohibition law when large num-
bers of the people of so many States
| are out of tune and out of sympathy
with the law.
Refers to Popular Referendums.
IF you have any doubt about this,
consult the popular referendums that
have been had in so many States that
stand in opposition to the existing pro-
h{hifiNY1 a oh Iafr
question: What would you or the people
of any dry State think about a pro-
posal to amend the Constitution to for
bid you to enact prohibition laws? You
would resent any such proposal, and
justly so. That is just the way the
people of other States feel about tire
eighteenth amendment in its present
form.
I'm my speech of acceptance laid
down clear. definite program. In
the first place, I said that I do not
believe the present definition of what
constitutes an intoxicant Is an honest
one. simply ask that Congress, after
proper advice and after proper medical
, and scientific research, provide def
milton of an intoxicant more in keep
ing with the fact and the truth. /
firmly feel that a great deal of the
poisonous hard liquor that we now have
in this country would be driven out OF
existence If people who desired to 40
SO would, under appropriate restric-
tons, be permitted to use beverages not
in fact intoxicating.
In the second place, I said that
personally believed in an amendment
to the eighteenth amendment which
would give to each individual State
itself, after approval by referendum