The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-01-31
No Tax Reduction Better Than Too Big Cut Coolidge Say.
w. {. I. j. LEADERS MEET TO PROMOTE
DRY CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICES
National Treasurer OF Organi.
zation Says Notification Of
Liquor Laws by Wet Ju.
dietary and Enforcement OF.
ficers Might Follow Election
Of Wet TO Presidency.

Chicago. Jan. SO.--(ReBent on
solidifying the phalanx Of women
voters in behalf Of the dry cause 1t
the 1928 elections, national and mid.
western leaders Of tho Women's
Christian Temperance Union met
here today 1or = two-day confer.
enoe. Gathered around the council
table with the national officers were
state w. C. +. u. presidents from
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Ohio and Wisconsin and rep.
reeentatives Of q half dozen WON.
ems political, religious and law en-.
forcement bodies.
Promotion Of dry candidates for
public offices and the advancement
Of law observance and enforcement
were put forth - the 1ims Of the
conference by Mrs. Ella E. Boole,
national w. c. T. II. president, %
she opened the presidential year
crusade in the middlewest.
Laws Might be Nu1lified
Notification Of the liquor laws
by . wet judiciary and wet enforce.
ment officers was pointed out - 4
peril that might follow the election
Of . wet to the presidency, by Mrs.
Margaret C. Nuns, national trea.
surer.
Prohibition can be upheld or null.
lifted by the very appointments .
p p.esident Makes" declared Mrs.
Nuns. "A vet president could se-
lect judges who could make Z mock
cry Of prohibition. The attorney
general could ruin law enforcement.
The president appoints district At
torneys who cen refuse to prosecute
bootleggers. He appoints the secre-
tary Of the treasury under whom
the l..w has placed the prohibition
unit. The president appoints the
prohibition director and heads Of
prohibition departments, customs
officers and coast guards and the
diplomats who may or may not
negotiate the treaties to prevent
liquor smuggling. The whole
strategy Of the wet interests Is to
elect . wet president"
Il prohibition ID ever to be the
success It should be, said Mrs,
Josephine Sixer, + Minnesota state
president, It must have the hearty
support Of public opinion. To this
end she emphasized the need for :
broad educational program to instill
In coming generations . reverence
for law and knowledge Of the ply
steal effects Of alcohol.
Chsree Called Unfounded
The charge that prohibition has
increased crime cannot be sub
stantiated, asserted Mrs. Anna Mar
den de Yo, in an attack on "wet
propaganda" which she character
lied Is utterly unreliable" Mrs.
de 70. who Is corresponding secre-
tary OF the w. C. T. u, answered
the charge with the statement that
"no commission and no expert has
ever discussed prohibition as the
cause Of crime"
She absolved the federal govern
meut Of responsibility Tor deaths
from poison liquor by explaining
that alcohol manufacturers since
1906 have poisoned and labeled a.
cohol TO escap, the high tax on
beverage alcohol, for industrial al
cohol Is tax free.
"To the accusation by wet prop
agandists that the United States
murders boot,eggsrs," when they
are shot by law officers. Mrs. de
Yo countered:
"Not :. single shooting by United
States enforcement Officers has
been without warrant in the opin-
ion Of government officials. My In
formation II that in every case the
criminal shot first or threatened
the life Of the officer. Forty-sev-
en- United States officials In the
last eight years have been shot BY