Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-04

President Hoover recognizes THE cast sums
that are poured into the hands of the criminal
classes By the patronage of illicit kQuor by other
1Uise responsible citizens"
But he does not seem to realize that these vast
sums have financed the underworld, and are chief
Iy to blame for the wide extension of crime and
the effective organization of the criminal classes
in all lines of criminal endeavor.
How great that extension of crime and that
organization Of criminal classes are can best be
told in the Presidents own words when ne says:
'T'zUenty times as MANY people IN proportion
to population are Ld1Ulessly killed m the United
States as IN Great Britain.
"At least fifty times as ma'ay robberles IN pro-
portion, to population are committed m the
United States as IN Great Britain and three times
as many burgldrleS.
'|Lite and property are relatively more unsafe
than IN any other civilized country IN the 1UorId.
In spite of all this the President apologies for
the communicating conditions under prohibition
and declares that 1T IS only section OF the m
UdSiOn of ldzULeSSneSS.
CAN 1T BIZ that the Jones law is in accord with the
Presidents idea of proper legislative procedure
the Jones law which is widely regarded as the
most menacing piece of repressive legislation that
has stained the statute books of this republic since
the Alien and Sediton laws under John Adams,
which permanently put the FederaliSt party out
of power and installed the Democratic Repub-
lican party under Jefferson to preserve the rights
and liberties of American citizens!
The Jones act calls for more vigorous and more
vindictiye enforcement of the sumptuary laws.
The Jones act increases the penalties until the
citizen who commits what can only be regarded as
misdemeanor is punished for high crime.
The Jones act adds persecution to prohibition,
and in our principles of government substitutes
fanaticism for freedom.
The Jones act destroys the American ideals of
liberty which have been our boast and our boon,
and imposes upon our people the European idea
of governmental tyranny which our Fathers
came to this country to avert and avoid.
WTHAL, the Jones act will defeat its own narrow
purposes, and, instead of creating condition of
rigid restriction, will cause
FIRST, fewer convictions because of over-severs
penalties
SECOND more killings for fear of possible infection
of the severe penalties;
THIRD more corruption to avoid arrests and possible
convictions;
FOURTH higher prices for liquor account of greater
risks and consequently greater profit in crime;
FIFTH, more violence and more violation of popular
rights
SIXTH, conflict between the extremes OF bone
head drys and buhead wets with distress and dis
comfort to the moderate, temperate peacelovng, lib.
erty-loving mass of our citizenship;
SEVENTH, cant and hypocrisy in public life.
insincerity among public and more DISPOSE
ton the part of the public to consider the lawmakers
of the land lot of fools and frauds and fanatics.
All of which could be avoided if the party in
power would remember that it was elected on the
Republican ticket, and not on the Prohibition
ticket, and that it could best serve its party and
its country by restoring the principles of liberty
and equality and justice for which our Fathers
fought.
For BE IT REMEMBERED that our Fathers shed their
blood, not for LAWS, but for PRINCIPLES.
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