The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-01
ARTICLE EIGHT

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DROHIBITION is propaganda
u made law. It is propaganda
sustained law. To large extent. it
has been propaganda administered
law.
The professional prohibition or
CARNATIONS spent more than $50
C0000O to bring about ratification
of the eighteenth amendment and
passage of national and state en-
forcement acts. They have spent
more than s25,OOO.OOO to prevent re-
peal or amendment of the law.
A professional propaganda is
person who advocates reform for
pay. There are many professional
prohibition reformers who never
have done anything else. II is al
most universally true that as soon
as a professional reformer is sepa-
rated from the Fay roll he loses in
terest in his pet reform.
The professional propagandists
created in Washington powerful
lobby. BY this lobby intolerance
was placed in the saddle. It boasts
that it has set up a super govern
ment in Washington government
that dictates TO the representative
government elected by the people.
It is controlled by a handful of
professional reformers, but it has
dictated TO Presidents, ruled con-
gress with a mailed fist. and con-
trolled the prohibition bureau with
out official authority.
What becomes of the constitu-
tional rights of the citizen when
a group of professional reformers
becomes powerful enough to seize
control of government? What be-
comes of his inalienable rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness?
VXTHAT are those rights worth if
w or when an Anti-Saloon
League Endorsed sy. wearing a gov
eminent badge, may have him hailed
into court to be prosecuted by a
hand-picked district attorney; to be
tried before a federal judge who
formerly sat on the executive COM
mittee of the Anti-Saloon League,
or owes his appointment to that in
tolerant organization; and to have
his guilt or innocence determined
by a jury selected by an Anti
Saloon League Endorsed United
States marshal?
What becomes of the constitu-
tional guarantee of the right of trial
before an impartial tribunal and
jury?
We read in the minutes of the
executive committee of the Anti
Saloon League that it not only
sponsored the eighteenth amend
ment AMI drafted the national en-
forcement law, but that it procured
the appointment of the prohibition
commissioner, and that certain
federal judges were appointed "by
and with the advice and consent of
Wayne B Wheeler" Also that it
has scrutnized appointments of
district attorneys, United States
marshals, and all other officials
having to do with prohibition en-
forcement.
This can mean nothing else than
that there has bsen a shameful sur
render o. power by elected officials
to self-appo-nted self-paid profess
rional refolmers. They have per-
mitted them to tamper with one c.
the most sacred institutions of the
peoples government-the courts of
justice
THEY have undertaken to lobby
Il through congress legislation that
would have given them the power to
child a club over the heads of every
federal judge on the bench and say
to them that unless you enforce the
Prohibition law as we want it en-
forced we will send a judge to your
district who will.
Why? Because there are many
abe and distinguished federal
judges appointed on merit. They
are fair and impartial judges. an
honor to the profession of law, and /
a credit to the judiciary. They are
not the kind of judges the Anti
Saloon League wants.
For that reason the Anti-Saloon
League wanted to appoint its own
judges to the federal bench, and /
seize power to hold threats over