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Page Twi? THE AMERICAN ISSUE A. L. PRESIDENT ISSUES .) STIRRING CALL TO ARMS TWO TEMPERANCE LEADERS OF INDIA COMING TO 0. S. BISHOP PROPERLY RATES BOOTLEGGER BISHOP MANNING IN PUBLIC ADDRESS STATES POSITION ON PROHIBITION LAW ENFORCEMENT Clergy and Laity Urged to Support Law With All Their Strength Bishop Gailor Misunderstood; Believes Prohibition Beneficial HAWKEYE CITY DADS PASS UP WET SCHEME The city council of Ottumwa, Iowa, went on record opposing the proposition to modify the Volstead law so as to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine.

A resolution was passed on February 27 expressing the conviction that it is the duty of public officers to enforce the laws of the land regardless of whether they approve them or not. The resolution was called forth by a request from the city council of Davenport, Iowa, that Ottumwa pass a resolution appealing to Congress to modify the Volstead act. the gratification of their appetites, or the promotion of their interests, law-years, bankers, great merchants and manufacturers, and social leaders, both men and women, disobey and scoff at this law, or any other law, they are aiding the cause of anarchy and promoting mob violence, robbery and homicide; they are sowing dragons teeth, and they need not be surprised when they find that no judicial or police authority can save our country or humanity from reaping the harvest. "As bishop of this diocese, I most solemnly associate myself with those words. As true citizens we cannot take any other position.

I call upon all our clergy and upon all our people, whatever their views about Prohibition, whatever their station in life and whatever their religion, to stand with their whole strength for the sacred principle of respect for law, upon which the life of our country depends. And let me add in this connection that the position of the presiding Bishop of our council upon this question has been misrepresented. I have not consulted him, but I know well that Bishop Gailot stands as strongly as I or anyone else for the principle of respect for law of which I have here spoken and for which I call upon all our people to stand. Violators of the Eighteenth Amendment were put in the same class with anarchists who would wreck Americm institutions by the Rev. James Wise of Topeka, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, in a speech the Sunday Evening Club in Chicago, March 12.

Bishop Wise is quoted as "It is about time the Prohibition laws ceased to be considered a joke. The time has come to realize that the violators of the amendment are encouraging the breaking of all law. They are the ones who are giving this country the reputation of being the most lawless nation on the earth." "ROSICRUCIANS CULT LOSE FERMENTED WINE SUPPLY General Prohibition Agent Andrew Stroup on March 11 cut off the supply of wine accessible to the cult of Holy Rosicrucians, San Francisco, from the cellars of the California Wine Association. Mr. Stroup announced that he had taken this action through a desire to find whether the Rosicrucians worship harkens back to Bacchus.

He said he would like to determine why they term themselves the "illuminati and just what sort of illumination they seek. The Rosicrucians creed he stated, makes the use of wine obligatory as per article five of the constitution of the cult which says: The use of well fermented wine is obligatory upon every person physically and otherwise able canonically to keep and observe the rules. LONE STAR STATE EJECTS GOVNOR ON DRY PLATFORM Governor Neff of Texas Has Unique Distinction of Winning on Dry Platform MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Better Element of State Rally to Support of Courageous Executive Governor Neff of Texas is the first Prohibition governor ever elected on a straight Prohibition platform in that state. He is making good in enforcement of the law. His method of dealing with the lawless booze makers and sellers is well illustrated by the action he took in Freestone and Limestone counties.

In an address to the people of Mexia February 18 in which he gave the citizens six days to decide whether they would guarantee the strict enforcement of law by civil authorities of whether they would prefer to sec instituted at that time a martial law of the strictly blood and iron variety, he said: "I make no apology for sending rangers to this region or for declaring martial law. For many months before this regime was instituted reports of extreme lawlessness in this community came to my office. I could not believe them. Finally I sent a detachment of detectives here to investigate. They came back and made such a report that I could scarcely credit the truth of it, I sent a second detachment.

They remained a few days and then came back with a worse report than the first. I sent the rangers here and told them if they had to shoot to shoots straight. They took charge of two places at once end rounded up 50 or 60 prisoners. Then for two days nothing could be done. No court of inquiry could be established.

It was then up to me to declare martial law or else turn the community back over to the lawless element. I declared martial law. You know the results. But now after four weeks what is to be done? This situation cart not go on forever, whether or not you think you can I want to confer with you as to whether or not you think you can handle conditions or whether the state will have to take morevigorous action. One thing is sure, and that is that we are not going to surrender this region to the crook and the gambler.

That is the first proposition and the fundamental one. The report comes that the better citizenry of Texas are delighted with the governors drastic moves to suppress lawlessness and are standing squarely behind him. SPANISH WINE EXPORTS TO AMERICA INCREASE Declaring exports of wine from Tarragona, Spain," to this country were larger in 1921 than for any year of the previous eight years, according to a report of the Commerce Department on March 4 from Vice Consul V. H. OHara.

During 1921 he reported exports of wine to this country totaled 115.000 gallons, valued at $116,000, as compared with approximately 70,000 gallons, worth $83,000 In 1920. Vouth of Nation Called Upon to Meet Challenge of Law-Violator NULLIFICATION RAMPANT Pry Leader Avers Immediate Future Holds Biggest Fight For Sobriety Smce-the saloon is not, it should be the definite purpose of every Christian young man and young woman to see that it IS not," declared Bishop Nicholson, president of the Anti-Saloon League America in a statement issued March 8 to 750,000 members of the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Nicholson declared: "The most stupendous effort at nullification that has ever been made is now being put forth in this country to break down the good work of the Eighteenth Amendment. Facts are distorted, the waters are muddied and the most specious and adroit appeals are being made. The facts are overwhelmingly against the whisky business and the saloon "Law enforcement is the first great work of the hour.

The sanctity of our Constitution and the preservation of the laws enacted by the overwhelming vote of the people are equally patriotic considerations. The saving of, this and the next generation of our young from the ravages of the liquor traffic is of the utmost national and international significance. "Let every Epworth Leaguer inform himself, then go in as he must 'if he knows Jthe facts, for the biggest we have ever made against the enemies of law and order the brewers, the -would-be saloonkeepers and all those who would break down the victory for morals, for decency and for temperance which have been won at great cost in the last twenty years." A ANDERSON ASKS AUTHENTICATION Bishop Gailors Lincoln Quotation Challenged by Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Anderson Bishop Gailor, president of the National Council Protestant Episcopal church, quotes that ancient anti-Pro-hibition statement credited to Abraham Lincoln. It, is a statement that was first used in an effort to deceive the negroes in wet nd dry elections in the south. The liquor interests have never been able to prove its authenticity.

It is not found anywhere in any official or authentic, edition or of writings or utterances. In fact, it is a fake, pure pnd simple. William H. Anderson, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York, has written Bishop Gailor an open letter in which lie says that the bishop owes an apology to the American people for lending reputable aid fo the smirching of the memory of Abraham Lincoln by thus making use of this spurious anti-Prohibition statement. Mr.

Andersoh closes his letter with -this parting shot. "However, even the public apology, which is overdue from you, will not obscure the fact that if you arc so prejudiced or think so loosely as to accept as gospel truth the fabrication of the liquor interests on this point, the rest of your statements against Prohibition must be considered to have no more substantial foundation." ILLINOIS A. S. L. MAPS OUT 23 LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM The Anti-Saloon League of Illinois announces a defensive and offensive program for the legislative session of 1923.

Vigorous opposition will be offered to the proposal to repeal any of the sections of the Illinois Prohibition act and -the passing of any resolution or legislation favoring the so-called beer and wine program. The League shall favor these three propositions: First, the enactment of such amendments as are necessary to strengthen the Illinois Prohibition act; Second, an appropriation for the attorney general to take care of what legal work be done in the 'matter of law enforcement and whatever investigation is necessary in regard to these legal cases; Third, the enactment of a law providing for a Prohibition commissioner similar to the law now in force in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and other states. PHILA. URGES FORMATION NATION-WIDE L. E.

LEAGUE President Harding was appealed to on March 10 by the Philadelphia Law Enforcement League through the secretary, William R. Nicholson, to is-u a proclamation urging a nationwide organization for law enforcement similar the Philadelphia League. A similar appeal was made to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon setting forth the object of the League and requesting him to indorse publicly a movement to make possible a real enforcement of the law. Secy Cherrington Announces Visitor Will Speak Here and Study Prohibition1 ATTEND TORONTO MEET boards of Trade, Commercial Clubs, and Individuals Will be Interviewed Following up the Prohibition campaign recently assisted in India by William E. (Fussyfoot) Johnson, two Indian business men who are highly associated with temperance and other reform movements, shortly will come to the United States to speak and to study conditions, according to Dr.

Ernest H. Cherrington, general secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism. Both visitors arc officially connected with that organiza- tion. Tarini Brazad Sinha, silk manufacturer of Benares, and J. Niogi of Cal- cutta, assistant secretary of the Calcutta Teipperance Federation and secretary of the Social Service League of the Servants of India, are to spend several months in America.

They will study workingmens conditions and the general effect of Prohibition, also making speeches in many cities, Dr. Cherrington says. Each of the men will remain here long enough to attend the World League convention at Toronto during November or December. Both men are graduates of American and English universities and are said to be importantly regarded at home. During Pussyfoot JohnsonS visit to India it is said both of them were closely associated with him and became greatly interested in Prohibition.

Mr. Sinha especially, it is said, will visit chambers of commerce and comcrcial clubs, and also interview individual manufacturers and labor leaders not only as to Prohibition but also as to general conditions of commerce, manufacture, labor and living. NOVEL METHOD OF HOME BREW PRODUCTION IN N. C. Federal Prohibition Director R.

A. Kohloss of North Carolina has reported to Commissioner Ifayncs the seizure, by his men, of a 150-gallon copper still and a large quantity of bee? in the vicinity of Hunting Creek, Wilkes county. still was located near-the top of a high mountain reports Kohloss, "and jt was impossible for us to get to it undetected, as they had watchers out for us. The still was in full operation on our approach, but no oper- ators were in sight, There was a batch of manure from a hog pen by the side of the distillery and the operators were using this in the beer. The odor from the condenser was nauseating.

I understand that they used this for the purpose of adding kick and causing it to bead high. MSS. ATTVS. FAVOR VOLSTEAD ACT Improvement in Bay State Crime Conditions Given as Ground for Attitude Attorney-General J. Weston Allen and District Attorney Thomas C.

OBrien of Massachusetts speaking at the banquet of the Boston Life Underwriters Association recently stoutly chanipionel the Volstead act and the new district attorney declared uncompromising war against narcotic vendors. Mr. OBrien declared the fact that there are but 21 women in the penal institutions of Suffolk county and less than 200 women in the penal institutions of the commonwealth, is a wonderful tributc to Massachusetts womanhood and to, the Volstead act. Its opponents, he said, might say what they would of the Volstead act, its so-called evils and the difficulty of enforcing it, but the arrests in Boston for the year ending June 30, 1910, numbered more than 88,000 of which more than 56,000 were for drunkenness, while for the ensuing year the total arrests were only 47,000 and of these 16,000 were for drunkenness. Of 2,969 families that have been helped by the Family Aid Society for the latter year, 3 per cent were affected by intemperance, against 10 per cent of a proportionate number the previous year.

Attorney-General Allen said: "Let no one think that America will repeal the Volstead act. The women of America are not going to let the country return to the open saloon and become a silent partner and largest gainer in the sale of rum. NARCOTIC SLEUTHS BUSY ALONG SOUTHERN COAST Col. G. L.

Nutt, head of the narcotic division, according to an announcement by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes under date of March 13, is in Florida with a squad of narcotic experts investigating drug smuggling in Florida and a number of foreign points in the southern waters. This investigation is being supported and aided by customs officials. Bishop William T. Martning, at one of the regular lenten services in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Nw York city, on March 10, stated his position with regard to the enforcement of Prohibition and calltd upon "all our clergy and all our people, to stand with all their strength for the upholding of the lav no matter what their personal views on the wisdom of its enactment.

Bishop Mannings statement is of added interest due to the pronouncement against the Volstead law by Bishop Gailor, president of the National Council, Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Manning refers to Bishop Gailor, declaring that Bishop Gailor lias been misinterpreted and that no man stands more strongly than he for the principle of respect for law. Bishop Manning said: "I have spoken on this subject several times and recently at the dinner of the Sons of the Revolution, but I want to express my judgment on it again here at the Cathedral in the most open and public manner possible. "I have never been in theory a Prohibitionist. I do not agree with the extremists who say that to drink wine or beer is a sin in itself.

From actual observation in the army, however, I believe that Prohibition will be of great practical and moral benefit to the life of our country. From information coming to me from many sources I believe that Prohibition is working great moral and practical benefits in the homes and conditions of life among the working people of our country as a whole. "But the question now is not whether we believe in Prohibition or not, but whether we believe in keeping the law of the land. Upon this question there is no room for two opinions If we disapprove the Prohibition laws we have the right to say so and to work for their repeal, but none of us has the right to evade or disobey the law as it stands, and we can not do this without working grave harm to our national life. The charge is made that this law is disobeyed chiefly by those whose education, wealth and, position in the community give them widest influence.

If this is the case it is a matter of the utmost seriousness'. The Judicial Section of the American Bar Association has felt called upon to utter a warning' upon this subject. The committee, composed only of judges, and speaking as it declares, for all the judges, says: Reverence for law and enforcement of law depend mainly upon the ideals and customs of those who occupy the vantage ground of life in business and society. The people of the United States, by solemn constitutional and statutory enactment, have undertaken to suppress the age-long evil of the liquor traffic. When, for ALL AMERICAN CATHOLIC BOUND The Catholic church teaches that all Catholics are obliged in conscience and under pain of sin, to obey the constitutional laws of their native or adopted land.

1 The National Prohibition' law is now a constitutional law of the United States, consequently all Catholics in the United States are bound in conscience and under pain of sin to obey the present National Prohibition law. It is the God imposed and church imposed duty of all Catholic pastors in America, to properly instruct their Catholic people, on all their grave duties as good Catholics and as good citizens of the United States. One of these grave duties as good Catholics and as good citizens is obedience and respect for our present Prohibition law of the land. Consequently, it is the God imposed and church imposed duty of all Catholic pastors in America to properly itv struct their Catholic people, on their duty in conscience to obey and respect the present Prohibition law. The principal mission and duty of all Catholic weekly papers is to instruct their Catholic readers on their grave duties as good Catholics, and as good citizens of America.

Ohe of these grave duties of all Catholics in America is to obey the laws of their native or adopted land, of which laws Prohibition is one. Consequently all editors of a Catholic weekly paper in America who are not instructing their Catholic readers on their duty in conscience to obey the Prohibition law while tens of thousands of Catholics' in the United States are violating that law of the land, are failing in their mission or duty as editors of a truly Catholic weekly paper. "Our Sunday Visitor says: "Prohibition has passed the stage of discussion in America. It is now a matter of law, andthe Catholic, by his very religion, must (is obhged in conscience) obey the laws of his native or adopted land. PHILADELPHIA PIGGER DRAWS PRISON AND FINE Judge J.

Whitaker Thompson in the United States district court, Philadelphia, on March 17 imposed what is Said to, be the heaviest penalty thus far assessed against a bootlegger. He sentenced Peter Mikonis, one of the worst offenders in Philadelphia, to six months in the Mercer county jail at Trenton and to pay a fine of $1,000. Mikoilis bartender, Ignatz Zalkouskas, drew a sentence of three months. As the result of the convictions and the imposing of the heavy sentence, United States Attorney Coles was informed that there would be a number of defendants awaiting trial who would seek to change their pleas to guilty. Thee defendants are hopeful that the punishments meted out to them will be lessened if they can obtain sentences without having any of the evidence heard.

MIAMI BANKER CAUGHT IN ENFORCEMENT NET C. M. Clayton, vice president of the Miami National Bank, was arrested on March 21 on a warrant charging violation of the federal Prohibition laws, says a Miami, dispatch in the Cincinnati Enquirer. The complaint charges that Clayton conspired with two men and a woman to handle the sum of $4,050 which was to be paid to a member of thespecial squadron of Prohibition' agents. In a statement issued after his arrest Clayton declared he received the money and gave a receipt for it as he would in any ordinary business transaction, and that he merely happened to be the officer of the bank who handled it.

He said that lie was later astounded to learn, "I had apparently been the victim of a frame-tip in a deal between Prohibition agents and bootleggers." His arrest is accepted as the first of a series in Miami by Col. L. G. Nutt in charge of the special Prohibition enforcement officers, who announced that his investigation had disclosed an unusually well-organized bootlegging ring with which several prominent business men had been allied. RESPONSIBILITY PUT UP TO STATE OFFICIALS Responsibility for prosecution of liquor, law violations will be turned over to the state officials and courts wherever possible, is a statement credited to Attorney General Daugherty and given out in a dispqtch under a St.

dateline of March 16. Mr. Daugherty adds, However, in such states where the work can not or will not be done by the states, the federal government will do it. The announcement marks the beginning of a new policy In the enforcement of Prohibition. In large cities where bootlegging is most prevalent, Prohibition officials have charged that the city authorities are lax in enforcing the law.

Mr. Daugherty indicated that it is his idea that states, generally speaking, are relying too much on the federal government in the prosecution of dry law violators. FLA. DRY SLEUTHS SWOOP. DOWN ON MUCH BOOZE A Jacksonville, dispatch of March 14 says that a raid conducted by sheriffs, deputies and federal agents and 100 specially deputized citizens resulted in the seizure of truckloads of evidence but no arrests of dry law violators.

Twenty-five stills, 16 wprms, 889 barrels of mash, 11 sacks of coal, 11 barrels of syrup and 13 gallons of moonshine, were part of the haul, A number of American Legion members were in the raiding party. Sheriff Merritt expressed himself as pleased with the inroads into the countys illicit booze industry and said similar campaigns would be carried out until moonshining was eliminated. INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN HITS NEW YORK SUDS FACTORY A Washington press dispatch pf March 16 announcing the seizure of the Central Brewery in New York by Prohibition officers, quotes Commissioner Haynes as saying that this seizure is a part of an intensive campaign being carried on throughout the country against the manufacture of beer containing alcohol in excess of the legal limits. Begun in Pittsburg several months ago the campaign, Mr. Haynes said, is being pushed vigorously in all quarters where the illegal manufacture of beer is Suspected.

FALSE PREMISES LEAD TO FALSE. CONCLUSIONS There is. great ado In the wet camp over the number of arrests for drunkenness in San Francisco last year as compared with 1920. Arrests on that charge in 1920 totaled 1,814 while in 1921 the number was 3,847. Wets point to this as proof that the dry'law is ineffective.

But it will be noted that the comparison is made between two dry years. Nothing is said about the last wet year, for instance. In 1919, which year was wet up till July 1, the number of arrests for drunkennes in that city was So it will be seen that arrests in 1921 were more than 13,000 fewer than in the last wet year. Prohibition is not as ineffective as the booze interests would have the public bc-licve. N.

J. PREACHERS PLEDGE DRY CANDIDATES SIJPPORT In a resolution adopted by a rising vote, 300 ministers in the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference in annual meeting, Atlantic City, March 10, pledged themselves to support dry candidates even to the extent of taking the stump. The action followed an announcement of the ratification by the New Jersey House of the Eighteenth Amendment, which was greeted with cheers and applause. CONSCIENCE TO OBEY PROHIBITION LAW Most Rev. M.

I. Curley, Arch- bishop of Baltimore, says: "Prohi bition is ndw surely the law of the land Let it be observed (obeyed). If it does not suit the people, let the people change it." Brauns Iconoclast in its October number says: "Law is the will of the people. Written law is the resuk of public sentiment. All good citizens (and good Catholics) respect (must obey and respect) law.

All Catholics, including Catholic editors, have a perfect right to condemn the present Prohibition law, and to call it a curse if they so desire, but they have no right to violate that law of the land in the meantime. If they do, they give public scandal to their non-Catholic neighbors, becoming public law breakers, and public underminers of respect for law, which is the fundamental principle and cornerstone on which the entire stricture government and orderly society are based and cemented, and without which there is nothing left but anarchy. Rev. Julius Sheldof in Branns Iconoclast for February. The Catholic layman who forwarded the above clipping from Brann's Iconoclast, that persistent and rabid foe of Prohibition, made this comment: We will add that these Catholic editors have no right to uphold violators.

Rev. Mr. Sheldof spoiled a spendid appeal for respect for law by conceding without qualification that anyone" has a right to condemn the present Prohibition law and to call it a curse if he so desires. He should have qualified such "Statement by specifying that anyone has a perfect right to advocate the repeal by the regularly prescribed method of the Eighteenth Amendment and to hold that it is working an injury, but no man or woman has a right to condemn it and eurse it for the purpose of inciting others to violate it or for the purpose of condoning violation of it..