The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-04
Prohibition Conflicts with Principles of
 Constitution.

Or. Nicholas Murray Butler in New York Tlmes)
 No be in favor of the principles upon which Government rests or of the Constitution itself as it existed before 1920, and at the same time in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment because the two are absolutely contradictory That amendment is alien and unnatural1zed invader of the Constitution and must be deported by the people if the Constitution itself is to be preserved and protected
 Mr. Hoover is opposed to the repeal Of the Eighteenth Amendment and at that point his troubles begin. Accepting the formula of that paid band of agitators, lobbyists and prosecutors, which calls itself the Anti-Saloon League he speaks of notification as if that were an un- heard of and horrid thing. As matter of fact the word qualification" should not be used to describe what is in Mir Hoovers mind, for in American political history it has very precise and definite meaning applied to the doctrine of Calhoun which Andrew Jackson smashed with his( heavy hand The process and action which it is fashionable to call nullifcaton are the accepted and usual ways by which any free people, and particularly the American people have gotten rid of laws that they do not like or that were offensive to their of justice and right. If it had not been for this treatment lof the Fugitive Slave Law, the Republican Party might never have been born. Statute books, Ma tional and State, filled with enactments which Legislatures too indifferent or too lazy to repeal, but to which longer pays the slightest attention. In almost any one of the older States it would be quite impossible to pass the waking hours of Sunday without violating a half dozen laws.
 Any one who is opposed to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and who is also opposed to that process of statutory absolescence that is now called nullifcation, must then be in favor of their only alternative, which is the continuance of the present reign of lawlessness, debauchery and Government-made crime Every bootlegger in the land will support this position, both with eagerness and with share of his very satisfactory profits.
 The parrot-like cry for law enforcement means somewhat less than nothing, and, the Irishman said, not much of that. The facts being what they are, to declare for law enforcement in re- spect to the Eighteenth Amendment is to declare for lawlessness and for a continuous and organ ized assault under official protection, upon the foundations of Government. It what MT. Justice Holmes, speaking from the bench of the United States Supreme Court has properly called dirty business"
 l What l wish to make entirely plain is that no candidate of my party for the Presidency can commit me or countless others like me to any such doctrines or to any such policies It would indeed be sorry day for the Repub- lican Party if it to turn its back upon all
 it's principles, it's traditions and its ideals in order to put the sinister figure symbolic of the
 Anti-Saloon League in a place of honor and authority among it's counselors. Should that day
 come and should the door of hope be closed to those hosts of Republicans whose mind and heart
 are set upon Republican leadership in restoring the purity of our Federal form of Government | in putting end to the rapidly growing menace l of centralized bureaucracy at Washington and in ladvancing the cause of temperance while protect ing the civil liberties of the people, then the | Republican Party, have known and served
 and honored it, would have to a dismal and ldiscreditabe end.
 I In the face of state of things like this, it seems far cry to the days of Patrick Henry
 and James Otis and Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson but some of at least have not for
 gotten them. Of what I have written say in the words which Patrick Henry made famous | If that be treason, make the most of it," l The man who favors Al Smith has just as much right to do so as the man who fayors T Herbert Hoover. We should this Presidential race on the broad lines of who is the best fitted flor the job and not through the mouthings of lntoierant blatherskites.-(PortA Angeles News)