Evening star., 1932-10-25
can be directly charged to that political

can be directly charged to that political
The Republican convention at Chi
cago, with characteristic hypocrisy and,
add. characteristic stupidity. attempt
ed to face both ways on the prohibition
question. They tried to hold out a sop
to the vets and little bone to the drys,
SO that they could again repeat the per-
formance Of 1928 and try to have every
body with them. and had it not been
for the offlceholders that were amenable
to the influence of the White House
that were delegates to that Republican
convention at Chicago that convention
would have handed the United States
of America as clear-cut a wet platform
as did the Democratic National Conven-
ton. But, what did they run up against?
They ran up against Herbert Hoover,
who Is himself the leader of the dry
forces today in the United States.
Let us get back to Mabel for little
while After the victory in
1928 she didn't wait for the
revolution to come. She got position
as chief counsel of the Fruit Industries,
Inc Of California. She did
two things for them No. l. she con-
vinced the Department Of Justice that
their II per cent wine was not intoxi-
eating = !" She did something else
for them which is equally important.
She got the Farm Board to lend them
500 900, 900. When all is said
and done, Mabel collected beautiful
big fee to make the Volstead act and
the eighteenth amendment just look
like 80 cents"
Quotes Two Platforms.
Turning to the 1892 campaign. Smith
said: Let US take look at the plat
forms. The Democratic plank on pro-
hibition consists Of about so or so
words; the Republican plank is half
page. But I will only read two little
sections: No. l, We do not favor a
submission limited to the issue Of re-
tention or repeal That means that
they will not limit the issue only for
submitting it to the American people,
to the question of repeal. Nothing
could be palmer than that. They did
not have to say it in the platform.
There Is no reason for say
ing it. But although that is what they
mean.
Now. this, however. is the important
fact. Members of the Republican party
hold different opinions with respect to
1t. and no public official or member of
the party should be pledged or forced to
choose between his party Affiliations and
his earnest convictions, upon this ques-
tion' That means that while the party
declares 1t as fundamental principle,
no candidate Is pledged to it. He can
do anything he likes. That is exactly
what that means. 1t is an empty decla-
ration. 1t does not mean anything. 1t
was not intended to mean anything. 1t
was put in there with cold-blooded de-
liberation SO that they could come out
afterward and say in the various con-
gressional districts I am not bound by
that. My platform distinctly and spe-
ence to any declaration against the
eighteenth amendment That is what
it was put in there for. and that is
exactly what it means.
Now, let us look at the Democratic
platform. The Democratic National
Convention is speaking to the people of
the United States, and no political party
during my time on any particular issue
spoke more plainly and more definitely
than the Democratic party spoke from
that convention in Chicago when it
said: We favor the repeal of the eight
eenth amendment. To effect such re-
peal We demand Congress Immediately
provise a constitutional amendment OF
uuiy ICHI CoCIltdtlNC SOANCAltlOiio AL
States, called to act solely on that pro-
posal. We urge the enactment of such
measures by the several States as will
effectually promote temperance and ef-
fectually retard the return of the saloon
| and bring the liquor traffic into the
open, under complete supervision and
under the control of the States. We
demand that the Federal Government
effectively exercise its power to enable
the States to protect themselves against
importation Of intoxicant liquors in
violation Of their own laws. Pending
repeal, we favor immediate modification
of the Volstead act to legalize> the man.
| ufacture and sale of beer and other bev-
erageS of such alcoholic content as Is
permissible, under the Constitution, and
| to derive therefrom profit and needed
| revenue
Twice Nothing Is Nothing.
II wrote that plank. -
"The result Of 1t all has been Just
this: The Democratic platform plank
has put the Democratic party in the
right light Of intelligent understanding
on the part Of the intelligent people
throughout the United States and it
leaves the Republican party today
where 1t was in 1928-the party OF
bigotry, of deceit and of hypocrisy.
IT ran across this only yesterday,
| Tax yield rises, but falls short Of the
estimate Up to couple OF days ago