Evening star., 1928-04-11
DRY ISSUE SPLITS
REPUBLICAN CLUB
National Organization Divid-
ed Over Resolution Urging
Repeal of Amendment.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 1.-THE New
York Times today says that the men,
bership of the National Republican Club
is badly split over a resolution urging
the repeal of the eighteenth amendment,
which it is proposed to have the club
adopt.
The resolution has been proposed by
a subcommittee of the clubs committee
on national affairs. and will come up
for action at meeting of the fun COM
mittee late today.
The Times says that feeling between
the vets and dryS i'll the club has be-
come so intense that resignation OF
some of the dry members is feared II
the committee should vote to submit the
resolution to the club and II should be
adopted. The outlook is that the COM
uittee on national affairs will approve
the resolution. but that ii probably Will
be defeated II submitted to the club
membership.
The membership of the committee in
cludes John T. Adams. former chairman
of the Republican national committee:
former Gov. Frank o. Lowden of Illinois
presidential aspirant;Dr. Nicholas Mur-
raw Butler, president of Columbia Uni
yersitv. an advocate Of the repeal Of
the eighteenth amendment; Senator
Walter (. Edge of New Jersey, Charles
D. Hilles. vice chairman Of the Re-
publican national committee; Otto II
kahn. Ogden L. Mills, UnderSecretary
Of the Treasury: Henry l.. Stimson.
Governor General of the Philippines.
Group Proposing Move.
The subcommittee proposing the
resolution is composed of former Rep
resentative Benjamin L. Fairchlld OF
Westchester County, chairman; former
District Attorney w. NJ. *. Olcott;
Martin SAKE. former State Senator,
and Charles P. Spooner, son of the late
United States Senator Charles G.
Spooner of Wisconsin.
If adopted by the full committee 1t
would come up for action at the regu-
lar club meeting April II.
The resolution Is the outgrowth or
one introduced last month advocating
amendment of the eighteenth amend
ment to permit the United States TO
appoint agencies for the manufacture.
sale. transportation or expectation OF
liquor
The present resolution reads in part:
The evil Of an amendment TO the
United States Constitution as proposed
in said resolution would be to per-
petuate the fundamental error involved
in the eighteenth amendment. the only
cure for which is repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment.
Repeal Is Advocated.
THE eighteenth amendment should
not he amended II should be reDeaied
If the American system of Government
of a Union of self-governing States is
to be perpetuated, If Government Of
the people. by the people and for the
people is not to perish from the earth,
the time has come when the public
conscience must be aroused in opposi.
ton TO revolutionary changes in our
Government, always sugar-coated with
loud aSseverations about some moral
cause.
This is not a wet and dry question.
It is very serious fundamental ques-
ton. of which the wet and dry question
is only an incident The adoption Of
the eighteenth amendment was, in the
entire history of the American Repub-
lie, the first violation of the American
system Of Government: an indeStruc-
tible Union of indestructible States. II
is today the Benedict Arnold provision
OF the Constitution, destructive Of
governmental system created through
the sacrifice of the blood Of patriots.
under the inspiration Of Divine Provi-
dence."