Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26

Dwight w. Morrow's plea for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment and for
q new amendment which will restore
to the States the power TO determine
their policy toward the liquor trafdc
and vest In the Federal Government
power to give protection and assistance"
to the States has created wide COM
publican nomination for Senator from
New Jersey his statement has 50 Inn
pressed the country with its sincerity
that many feel that the issue raised has
become national. Various predictions
are made as to his three cornered fight.
I'm effect. Mr.. Morrow put the ques-
ton to the country-for his speech was
too great for New Jersey alone
whether the evils of lack of confidence
In the Government, Of lawlesSness, OF
bootlegging, of corruption, do not out
weigh the benefits of national prohibi-
ton" says the New York Sun, while
the Rock Island Argus believes the New
Jersey fight will amount to Q reterer-
dunn" and the Cincinnati Times-Star
sees real progress" toward IAN honest
and practical solution" when courage
is exhibited by men "of Morrow's char
acter and ability" The Bloomington
Paragraph halls the bringing Of the
issue "out into the OPEN"
Discussing the practical side of the
New Jersey fight, the Newark Evening
News expresses the opinion: "Freling-
huySen's position may logically be dis
regarded by those who wish to register
effectively either for or against proht-
bition' Either the voter must go with
the candid, undemagogic Morrow or
with Franklin Fort, who, while meeting
the real issue, still may make comfort
ing reservations as to home brew that
will reassure the beer lovers and en-
on. At last, the Republican party,
which has assumed responsibility for
prohibition, stands face to face with
that issue in an important election, an
election which will have its ultimate
echoes in the Nation"
While contending that present indi-
cations do not encourage the prospect
of an early repeal or modification of
the eighteenth amendment" the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin, which stands
for law enforcement, concludes: There
has previously been, at least from such
q prominent voice, no comparably dis
passionate statement of the prohibition
question nor any more truly prophetic
definition of the issue upon which the
final determination Of pclicy ultimately
shall be based"
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Behind this definite program" In
the judgment OF the Richmond News
Leader, stands a man at whom the
fanatic may shoot his venomous darts
in vain. In character, in courage and
in intellect, Morrow can meet all the
assaults that may be made upon him
Before he has finished the campaign IN
New Jersey, his clear advocacy OF his
the
crime wave, more than the Jones act,
more than the arrogance OF Bishop
Cannon, and more than the Literary
Digest poll to make prohibition an i'm
mediate national issue"
The wet brigade has just about
picked up the biggest asset 1t can boast
In securing the addition Of this eminent
man to the list of its leadership" states
the Charlotte News, while the Memphis
Commercial Appeal calls his "espousal
of the wet cause setback to the pro-
hibition movement" The Milwaukee
Sentinel feels that people ARE bound to
his clear definition OF his stand" The
Chicago Daily Tribune points to his
conspicuous place in the Republican
party" and to the fact that "he is set
ting himself against the policy to which
his national party management has
ITSELF" The Syracuse Herald
concludes that he has shown high
moral courage" and that "only such in
tellsctual approach ever viii solve the
far-reaehing national problem"
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The signiAcance Of tie utterance to
the Roanoke Worid-News Ia in the fact
that the "cleaf-cut, candid declaration"
ranks as "the Arst definite pronounce
nasnt from the Republican side of the
prohibition discussion" The Rirming-
ham News recalls that the lata Senator
Underwood warned Democrats Ia 1928