Evening star., 1932-12-10
OPENS
NEW NATIONAL WAR
Widespread Campaign oi
Education Mapped Out
by Leaders Here.
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of their program. The vets nave nc
substitute plan to propose because they
know of none but the saloon. If liquor
comes back the saloon viii be back, ano
they dare not defend the saloon"
Declaring the vets had been whip.
ped at every turn in congressional elec-
tions under non-partisan program,
DR.. Mcbride charged. they have prov
en- themselves poor sports. When they
saw they could not win fairly" he said
''they set out to manipulate party
platforms in an effort to coerce dry
members of Congress. There is not
nor can there ever be, mandate thai
will exceed Congressmans own con-
science and the wishes of his constitu.
ency. II a Representative in Congress.
so descends as to become merely q rub.
Der stamp of wet party platform
committee that poorly represents hi
district, his constituency should be in
formed Of that fact and should be giver
a chance to elect some one else In hi
place"
"Not Wet Mandate"
Bishop E. G. Richardson Of Phila'
delphia, president Of the league, said h,
was convinced that the recent election
was not q wet mandate, but that tn,
majority sentiment Of the Nation still
was dry.
I'VE are resisting repeal," he declared
because the traffic in alcoholic bev'
erages is now an outlaw and we wish
1t so to remain. If the traffic in in.
toxicants is as respectable as many ar,
now claiming 1t is, 1t should be treatet
exactly as all other lines of bushes.
are treated. We are resisting repea
because the agitation for repeal ha!
been based on misleading, erroneous
and false statements.
"The economic distress under which
we have been suffering In common with
almost the entire world has been cap.
italized to secure sympathy for repeal
The claim has been made that be-
tween 100000 and 2,500,0 900 unem
ployed will be put to work. In order
to do this, the manufacture and con-
sumption Of liquor would have to be
many times what 1t ever was. In order
to secure the amount of tax that the
proponents of repeal say can be Sc
cured, from 6 to II times as much
liquor would have to be consumed al
ever was consumed Who would be re-
lieved of taxation? Those who car
best afford to pay taxes. Every dollal
collected In taxes from the sale Of in
toxicants means at least SO to IS divert
ed from useful channels of trade.
"The farm products now are used II
the production of commodities tha
bring much more revenue to the farmel
than could possibly accrue to him from
the manufacture of alcoholic bever'
ages,
,v%lA ~
neighbor, Canada, proves that prohibi'
ton repeal carries many evils in it
train. The consumption Of liquor ha,
already Jumped to two and one-hal
times the amount that was promised
Along with this increase in consumption
of alcohol, there has been a very grea'
increase In major crimes.
1--WE are resisting repeal because W!
believe that when the furor aroused
by the indiscriminate use Of large
sums of money contributed by wealthy
people has died down and the country
has come to sober second thought, Il
will be glad still to have the eighteenth
amendment in the Constitution, anc
traffic in intoxicating liquors as out
law"
"New Leadership" Need.
DR.. Arthur j. Barton of Wilmington
N. c., chairman Of the Executive Com
mittee Of the Anti-Salon League, anc
president Of the National Conference
Of Organizations Supporting the Eigh.
teenth Amendment, declared America
needed a new political leadership,
and predicted the possibility Of new
party whose principles and purpose.
might be indicated by some such name
as Progressive Constitutional Party"
"In such a party" he said, "all the
moral and progressive forces Of thu
country could unite on issues thai
really mean something. Such party
could fight for principles instead o.
becoming an aggregation of subservient
politicians seeking and adopting every
political expedient for the sake of Sc.
curing office"
Each of the political parties be.
trayed its constituents" declared DR.
Barton. 1.-The Democrats went ovel
bag and baggage to the liquor traffic
and espoused the wrong side of mora
question Just as it did concerning the
matter of slavery The Republican
party. if possible, Is even more cul.
pable. 1t belied its own record and
betrayed its own constituency in it;
recent surrender on the liquor Ques-
ton.
1--WE are now in a pitiful plight,
declared the speaker who said he wa:
a Democrat, with the affairs of the
Nation placed virtually in the hand,
of Tammany Hall, the most corrupt
and corrupting political machine the
Nation has ever SEEN"
A copy of the pink Might Final Of
The Evening Star was read before tht
audience by DR.. Barton, as he com,
mended" wet Representative La
Guardia of New York for saying be.
fore the House Ways and Means Com.
mittee Yesterday: THE brewers and dis.
tillers are up to their old activities
which brought about prohibition
Brewers and distillers have no righ
to help draft bill to modify the Vol
stead law"
Message From Bishop.
A message from Bishop W. N. Aims.
worth, Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at Birmingham, Ala, was reac
by Bishop James Cannon, jr. in par
as follows:
Civilization cannot get away from
the fact that science puts opium, CO.
caine and beverage alcohol in the SAINT
category as narcotic habit-formint
health destroying drugs :. The Stats
has no right to maintain itself by tht
debauchery of its people"
Declaring that it was virtual!
pagan" for America to balance he
national budget by a tax on crimina
anti-social liquor traffic" Bishop Aims.
worth said: 1.-THE responsible men thai
dare to do it may make exciting
'whoopee' in the delirium Of mo-
mentary triumph. 1t will not last long
The political party that serves thu
liquor interests of America will dil
the pit of its own damnation. TIL,
march of civilization is the other way
and the Congress under whatever
presidential lead that allows 1t, tha
attempts to legalize Illegal beer in the
face of an unrepealed eighteenth
amendment will go down in history a.
the arch nullifiers of the country's con-
stitution."
Others on the program last night
we're; G. w. Morrow of Detroit. DR.
Homer w. Tope of Philadelphia. DR.
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor o.
Foundry Methodist EpiscOpal Church