Evening star., 1932-08-12
Dry Issue Views Compared
Republican Platform and President for Constructive
Substitution of Present Law-Democratic
Repeal Stand Upheld by Roosevelt.

ways out.
"Our objective must be sane solu-
tion. not a blind leap back to old evils
Moreover, such a step backward would
result IN a chaos C nsw evils never
yet experienced. bee, use the local sys-
tenn of prohibition End controls which
were developed ever generations have
been in large degree abandoned under
the amendment
THE Republican platform recon-
mendS submission of the question to
the States, that the people themselves
may determine whether they desire a
change but insists that this submits
sion shall propose a constructive and
not a destructive change 1t Goes not
dictate to the conscience of any mem
Der of the party.
THE first duty of the President of
the United States is to enforce the
laws as they exist. That shall con-
tinue to do to the utmost of my abil-
ity. Any other course would be the
abrogation of the very guarantees of
liberty itself.
THE Constitution gives the Presi-
dent no power or authority with re-
spect to changes in the Constitution
itself. Nevertheless, my countrymen
have a right to know my conclusions
upon this matter They are clear and
need not be misunderstood. They are
based upon the broad facts 1 have
stated, upon my experience in this high
office, and upon the deep conviction
that our purpose must be the elimi-
nation of the evils of this traffic from
this civilization by practical measures.
1T is my belief that in order to
remedy evils a change is necessary by
which we rcsummon proper share of
initiative and responsibility which the
very essense of our Government de-
mands shall rest upon the States and
local authorities. That change must
avoid the return of the saloon.
1T is my conviction that the nature
of this change, and one upon which all
reasonable people can find common
ground. is that each State shall be
given the right to deal with the prob
lem as it may determine, but subject to
absolute guarantees in the Constitu-
ton of the United States to protect
each State from interference and in
vasion by its neighbors, and that in no
part of the United States shall there
be a return of the saloon system, with
its inevitable political and social cor
ruption and its organized interference
with other States.
American craftsmanship is capable
of working out such solution and
making it effective
Outright Repeal Favored.
Gov. Roosevelt said at Chicago:
"And talking about setting a definite
example, / congratulate this convention
for having had the courage, fearlessly,
to write into its declaration of prin-
ciples what an overwhelming majority
here assembled really thinks about the
eighteenth amendment. This conven-
ton wants repeal. Your candidate
wants repeal, and / am confident that
the United States of America wants
repeal.
1.-TWO years ago the platform on which
I ran for governor the second time con-
tanned substantially the same provision.
The overwhelming sentiment of the
people of my State as shown by the
vote of that year extends, / know, to
the people of many Of the other States.
1 say to you now that from this date
on the eighteenth amendment is
doomed. When that happens we as
Democrats must and will, rightly and
morally, enable the States to protect
themselves against the importation of
intoxicating liquor where such impor-
tation may violate their State laws.
We must, rightly and morally, prevent
the return of the saloon"
Glass Views Like Hoover's.
Senator Carter Glass, a Virginia
Democrat, offered in the Senate joint
resolution which is considered, para
doxically enough, to approach the
legislative form of President Hoover S
views:
Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States relative to the eighteenth amend
ment.
Resolved, by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled
(two-thirds of each house concurring
therein), That the following is pro-
posed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which
shall be valid to all intents and pur-
poses as part of the Constitution when
ratified by conventions in three-fourthS
Of the several States:
ARTICLE -.
Section l. Article XVIII of the
amendments to this Constitution is
hereby repealed The sale of intoxi-
eating liquor within the United States
or any territory subject to the juriS-
diction thereof for consumption at the
place of sale commonly known as a
saloon), and the transportation of in
toxicating liquors into any State, Terri
tory, District or possession of the
United States in which the manufac-
ture, sale and transportation of intoxi-
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hereby prohibited. The Congress and
the several States, Territories and pos
sessions shall have concurrent power
to indorse this article by appropriate
legislation.
Section 2. This article shall be in
operative unless it shall have been rati-
fed as an amendment to the Consti-
tuition by conventions in the severa.
States, as provided in the Constitution
within seven years from the date oil
the submission hereof to the States By
the Congress"
A joint resolution submitted in the
Senate this year by Senator Robert F
| Wagner Democrat of New York i
held TO approximate the legislative
form of Gov. Roosevelt's prohibition
views. 1t reads as follows:
Joint resolution, proposing ar
amendment TO the Constitution of tn,
United States.
Resolved, by the Senate and Hous,
of Representatives of the United State,
of America, in Congress assembled
That the following article is proposed
/ as an amendment to the Constitution
/ of the United States, which, when rati
/ fed by conventions in three -fOurthS O
/ the several States, shall be valid to al
intents and purposes as a part of tn,
! Constitutions:
ARTICLE -.
THE eighteenth amendment to tn,
! Constitution of the United States /
hereby repealed"