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1 Tf9 KANSAS EDITION SUCCESSOR TO KANSAS ISSUE A SALOONLKSS NATION AND A STAINLESS FLAG L. CRABBE, Kansas Editor v. a tj a tJOK L3 Pi HC '54(0 J3 Volume VI WESTERVILLE, OHIO, OCTOBER 14, 1922 Number 21 HIGH SEAS BOOTLEGGING STOPPED; AMERICAN BOATS ARE ORDERED DRY CHURCHES OF AMERICA, AWAKEN TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS HOUR! DAUGHERTY RULING HOLDS PROHIBITION APPLIES TO SHIPS MICHIGAN DRYS CLEAN UP WETS, SIX OUT OF SEVEN In Michigan the dry forces were victorious in the primary elections September 12 in the nomination of their candidates in six out of the seven congressional districts where an out and out wet and dry fight developed. In the sixth congressional district, where the wets aimed the force of their MUSTER FUU VOTING STRENGTH IN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CONTEST AND NULLIFICATION PLOT WILL FAIL Success of the Conspiracy to Make the Prohibition Policy a Farce Depends Upon the Success of the Liquor Interests Gaining Control of Congress REGISTER AND VOTE! VOTE FOR KNOWN DRY CANDIDATES THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT IS AT STAKE ON NOV. 7 If at least one hundred delegates from Iowa do not attend the convention of the World League Against Alcoholism at Toronto, November 24-29, it will not be the fault of Superintendent R.

N. Hols-aple. This is the goal which Holsaple has set and he announces that it probably will he necessary to charter a special train. Reports from the superintendents of the Leagues of Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri and otlier adjacent states, indicate that their delegates will join the Iowa delegates at Dos Moines and Chicago and thus make up a large crowd of enthusiastic crusaders who will go to tho Toronto convention. Reservations have been made at King Edward Hotel which is to be the convention headquarters and the entire Iowa delegation will be located there.

In the convention hall there will be a special section for the Iowa folks who will sing N. Y. STATE DEMOCRATS Wine and Beer Plank to Platform Adopted Amidst Tumultuous Cheering CONVENTION IN UPROAR Platform Views With Alarm Growth of Contempt for Law and of Law Violation The New York Democratic convention in session September 29 gave unqualified approval of the splendid record of Governor Alfred E. Smith and declared for modification of the Volstead act to legs.IAw.Jlhe manufacture and sale of beer and wine. The adoption of the beer and wine plank was greeted with tumultuous cheers in which the women delegates joined heartily.

The demonstration for this plank started before Judge Mahopey finished, reading it. Delegates jumped on their chairs, waving their hats and shouting, We want wine, We want beer, and Well all have the same, and the band played Hail, hail, the gang's all here. The beer plank reads: The Beer Plank Recognizing that the interpretation of the Eighteenth Amendment In less than a month the voters of the nation will have the privilege of going to the polls and there registering their desires on the one big dominant issue the enforcement of the Prohibition law. This is more than a privilege; it is a duty that no citizen who is physically able to go to the polling can evade without being guilty of a serious breach of trust reposed in him by his government. An Appeal to Church Voters This is a special appeal to church members and church attendants.

The Chicago Presbytery on Monday, October 2, passed resolutions carrying this significant statement -which is applicable everywhere throughout this country: The issue, therefore, lies entirely in the power of the Christian churches of Chicago and they will be justly held responsible. An Attack Upon the Constitution 1009 Illinois Legislature was known as What is this issue? Briefly, it is the tIle jackpot Legislatuure and was so issue of sustaining the Constitution of corrupt that a committee of distin-the United States. In the opening sen- guished citizens issued a stirring ap-tence of this appeal the statement was Pea 'le citizens for the honor of II-made that every voter would have the hnois to redeem at the polls the charac-privilege of oting on the question of ter Legislature. In spite of the dry law enforcement. This is literally appeal many members of that corrupt true because enforcement of the Eight- Legislature were returned, among them eenth Amendment is dependent upon the TY ilson.

He was so prominent in federal law enacted by Congress to make the 1909 session of the Legislature that that amendment operative. What kind of he was indicted for bribery but a Cook law this will be rests with Congress. In cunty jury did not convict. While unless than a month, November 7, a new der indictment he was nominated by the Congress will be elected. The liquor in- vteB of 98 electors his total vote, terests have organized their forces into HILE 24,036 REGISTERED OT-numerous associations with misleading ERS IN HIS DISTRICT DID NOT names for the purpose of electing a Cori- THINK IT WORTH WHILE TO OTE.

gress that will weaken the present en- TY hen the local option petition was enforcement act the Volstead law in culated a few years ago in Chicago, it such a way as to bring back beer and found that 15 of the 16 members of wine. Beer constituted nine-tenths of one Biljle Class could not sign it because the liquor consumed in old license days, they were not registered. In the election of 1921 in Chicago two gioups of the Same Old Booze Forces Under New flnefct churcll people were decked up and Banners 1 ouj 0f gg 0f tjle eligible voters only 1 7 The liquor interests are therefore con- 0ted in that election. These are but a centrating their fight on the election of few instances of many that show how a the next Congress. They have rallied good citizen's failure to vote is equivalent the same forces that have opposed all to casting a vote for an unfit candidate, anti-liquor legislation from municipal jf Church Fails local option to National Prohibition.

Don't fall to register where registra-The forces which are fighting to main- tion is requuired; don't fail to vote; and tain the Volstead law and to uphold the be sure the candidate for whom you Eighteenth Amendment will meet no for Legislature or Congress is not new enemy on November 7. They will favor 0f the liquor interests scheme meet the same old booze crowd mas- to nullify the Eighteenth Amendment, querading under new names. It is gen-j If the churches and church voters fail eraly conceded that the victory for Pro- t0 recognize the importance of registra-hibition was won under the leadership tion days and election day the battle will Iowa songs and make other demonstrations which will indicate clearly where are located tho pilgrinj from the state where the tall corn gA. 1. Holsaple is planning to have the largest delegation from any state in the Union.

Nobody wants to discourage him, hut it would seem a good stunt for other states, some of them nearer than Iowa is, to take up Ilolsaple's challenge and try to outdo him in the number of delegates. While there will be a general convention song, it is urged that delegates from each state sing their own state song, have their own state yells and otherwise indicate who and what they are and from whence they come. Into the ofliec of Doctor Ernest H. C'herrington, general secretary, arc coming methods which indicate that state superintendents are active in trying to get large delegations for the convention. to the Federal Constitution expressed in the Volstpad act has resulted in widespread contempt ami violation of the law, in illegal traffic in liquors and in official corruption, we insist upon Congress enacting such modification of tho Volstead act as shall legalize subject to the approval of the people of the state of New York, the use of beer and light wines under such careful restrictions as were nposed by the law passed in New Vm'; in 1920.

The beer and wine law referred to was declared unconstitutional after the legislature had passed it and after it had received the approval of Governor Smith. To Change Method of Ratification cf Amendments to Const'tution The platform also included the following declaration: Amendments to the Federal Constitution should be Ratified by referendum of the people instead of the state legislatures! It is altogether probable that the authors of the above mentioned plank were thinking in terms' of the beer stein. This suppositibn is justified by the fact that no opposition to the method of ratifying proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution ever developed until the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified. No one is surprised that tho New York Democratic convention took the action it did because it is dominated by booze-soaked Tammany Hall. Larimore Alcoholism on behalf of their representative organizations.

During the sessions of the organizing were present officially or from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, several localities in Africa, including Northern Africa, South Africa, Sierra Leone and the Belgian Congo, the Balkan States, Korea, Japan, China, S.am, Mexico, South America and Cuba. On the Sunday following the convention many of the pulpits of Washington were filled with speakers who spoke in the interest of the World Prohibition movement. Exactly twenty countries were represented in the names of those who signed the constitution. Officers 'Elected Dr. Robert Hercod of Lausanne, Switzerland, director of the International Temperance Bureau, Hon.

Leif Jones, former member of Parliament. and president of the United Kingdom Alliance and Doctor Howard H. Russell, founder and Associate (Concluded on page 2) Foreign Vessels Must Not Come Into Ports of United States With Any Liquor Aboard OPINION COVERS STORES HELD IN COASTAL LIMIT Sale of liquor on American boats, heretofore permitted by the Shipping Board, is inhibited in an opinion handed down October 0 by Attorney General Daugherty. Moreover, the transportation or sale of intoxicants on American craft wherever operated also is declared illegal. Ship Stores cn Foreign Boats Prohibited The opinion goes on to say that all vessels, American and foreign owned, are prohibited from having liquor on board in American territorial waters.

American teiritorial waters were construed to include those not only within the three mile limit of continental United States, hut also those within the same limit of the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Yirgin Islands and Alaska. The law would not apply in the Panama canal zone as that zone is specifically exempted by the statute itself. So far as American ships are concerned the sale or transportation of liquor will cease at oree, or as soon as those vessels reach their homo ports. In the case of foreign ships the decision will become operative as soon as the neeessaty regulations can be prepared and promulgated by the treasury department. Chairman Lasker was of the opinion that the fiist move of foreign lines would be to seek an injunction restraining the government from enforcing the law.

The attorney general said his department would co-operatc in every effort to expedite a ruling by the Supreme Court. President Calls Conference Publication of the opinion of the department of justice followed a White House conference to which President Harding summoned Mr. Daugherty, Secretaries Hughes and Mellon and Chairman Lasker. Various phases of the situation were discussed, including the possible results of enforcement upon the international relations of the United States. High administration officials explained that there was no course for the executive branch of the government except to enforce the law as interpreted by the legal department.

Interpretation was based upon the decisions of the Supreme Court in a case involving the authority of the United States to interfere with the transfer of a liquor cargo from one foreign ship to another in an American port. President Orders Enforcement Ruling Orders for enforcement of Prohibition laws, as construed by Mr. Daughertv, were issued immediately by President Harding. In a letter to Secretary Mellon the president requested that due. notice he given to the masters of all privately owned ships operating under the American flag and that regulations for the enforcement as to foreign ships he formulated and that such notice be given to the agents of foreign lines touching American ports or docking therein as becomes the ciicumstances and commits us to the full enforcement of the law.

Writing to Mr. Lasker, the executive said the transportation and the service of intoxicating liquors on all ships, owned, operated or leased by the shipping board, should be prohibited at once and all transportation, either as cargo or ships stores must cease at once on ships now in home ports and ships at sea or in foreign ports immediately after docking in home ports. Quoting the Supreme Court to the effect that the intent of the National Prohibition policy was to stop the whole business of trafficking in intoxicants, the attorney general said the scope of the statutes enacted to carry out that policy, undoubtedly must include all territory subject to the jurisdiction of (he United States. Under such interpretation, he held, American ships, wherever they might be located, would come under the national law. The ruling published today was in answer to a request from Secretary Mellon, dated June 23, 1922.

campaign against Grant M. Hudson jears identified with the anti-saloon work as superintendent of the Michigan Anti-Saloon League, the dry achieved an unmistakable victory when their candidate was given a vote which nearly equalled a total of the votes cast for the other Jwo candidates in the field for nomination The wets were victorious in the thirteenth congressional district, but ony because the dry vote was divided between two dry candidates. The congressional districts in which candidates lost with the indorsement of the wets were the firtt, second, fifth, sixth, seventh and twelfth. GOV. SPROUL REMOVES PHILA.

JUDGE FROM OFFICE Judge J. R. Johnson of the county court in Philadelphia recently ruled that state authorities could make no arrests in Prohibition cases unless the liquor involved had been determined by analysis to be intoxicating. Now this same judge has been removed from office by the governor of the state. The removal order was signed after more than 1,500 residents of the county had signed a petition asking the removal of both the judge and the county prosecutor because of alleged laxity in law enforcement.

U.S. DEPARTMT OF JUSTICE MEN CALLED ON CARPET Charged with Appropriating Large Quantities of Seized Liquor to Own Use i GRAND JURY DIPS DEEP Alleged Peculations Cover' Large Period of Time, the Grand Jury Reports Charges that certain representatives of the Department of Justice converted to their own use large stocks of liquor seized in Washington, D. in the enforcement of Prohibition laws, were made in a special report filed October 2 by the District of Columbia grand jury. The report asserted that the liquor was removed from the warehouses used by the department for storage purposes and was used by the officials involved for their private consumption, for distribution to personal friends and as gifts to favored institutions. There was no charge that any of the liquor was distributed for financial gain.

Illegal withdrawals covered in the report were declared to have occurred between July 30 and September 11, 1920. The liquor stocks covered in the report were those taken during the operation of the Reed bone dry amendment which prohibited sale of alcoholic beverages within the district during the early months of the war and during the period when purchases in adjacent territory were still permissible. The jury did not name the individuals who were involved but declared that their conduct can not be too severely condemned. AGAINST VOTING REFERENDUM QUESTION stein of beer within easy reach of them all. And after it is all done, they will be more thirsty than when they began.

It is truly pathetic. After the count is in on this fake proposal the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law will still bo intact and applicable to the state of Illinois, which is a part of the Union. No doubt their publicity agents will get busy immediately, however, to herald to the world the fact that Illi-noise voted unanimousuly for beer and wine. The Anti-Saloon League has issued a statement setting forth reasons why not only the drys but loyal citizens regardless of their ideas on Prohibition, ought not to vote for or against this (Concluded on page 2) GREAT WORLD GATHERINGS WILL DEVELOP CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM TOWARD COMPLETE PROHIBITION First International Convention of World League Against Alcoholism Will Have Support and Encouragement of Other Movements Meeting in Toronto During Same Week for Same Purpose be lost. The church voters do not constitute the entire dry voting strei.gth of the ifation, but they constitute such a considerable part of it that ANY NEGLECT BY THEM WILL BE FATAL.

POLISH GOVT ADOPTS A NEW LIQUOR POLICY Poland took a new step toward prohibition on October 3, says a Warsaw dispatch, by organization of a governmental commission to restrict the liquor traffic. The commission will set up a nation-wide machine with sub-committces in every district having powers to grant or cancel licenses. The scheme is under the general direction of the Ministry of Health. LEAGUE WILL CAMPAIGN ON WET ILLINOIS ALL FRIENDLY BODIES URGED TO SEND DELEGATES THEIR SELECTION SH80LD BE MADE WITHOOT DELAY of the church. It is now up to the ehurch voters to hold the ground gained.

That is why this appeal is made especially to them. The Church Must Not Fail But just as the church voters are receiving and deserve the credit for the Prohibition Amendment ietory, it is probably just as true that NO BATTLE FOR CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS EVER BEEN LOST AT THE POLLS EXCEPT THROUGH THE NEGLECT OF CHURCH VOTERS. For that reason every church in the United States ought to be and must he thoroughly alive to the necessities of-this hour. No pastor can do greater service for the cause of righteusness than to keep before his people the importance of the next elec tion day. Know Candidates Attitude First of all, voters should inform themselves as to the attitude of Congressional candidates on the question of dry law enforcement.

They should take nothing for granted as to a candidate's stand on this important question. As a general proposition, the candidate who does not declare himself as in favor of enforcement on the Eighteenth Amendment may be classed as wet. Register and Vote Then, knowing the candidates attitude, the voter must not neglect his or her duty at the polls. If registration is required register. Thousands of dry votes have been lost simply through voters neglecting to register.

Registration days is as important as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November where registration laws are in effect. When Good Citizens Fail As an example of how neglect by good citizens to vote results in the triumph of unfit candidates at the polls, the case of Robert Wilson, member of the Illinois legislature, coming from the Evanston district, is to the point. The Booze Crowd to Have Little Ballot Picnic All to Themselves Drys Not Fighting Issue, but are Urging That the Temperance Voters Refrain From Marking Their Tickes By J. H. Preceding the 19th National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America held at Washington, D.

June 3-6, 1919, a large number of delegates from foreign countries visited the United States and Canada studying the progress and methods of the Prohibition movement. Conferences were held in New York City, Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago. At Chicago the delegations divided into groups, each group making separate tours of various cities located in all parts of the United States, all parties hnally converging at Washington, D. for the National Anti-Saloon League Convention. During these pre-convention tours scores of public meetings were held, and at the same time the foreign delegates were given opportunity to meet public officials and to investigate the actual workings of Prohibition.

At Washington the conferences of international delegates were resumed, with the result, that on Thursday evening, June 5 a constitution was agreed upon, and on Saturday, June 7, at noon, in the presence of a large number of friends of the cause, duthorized members of the international committee signed the constitution of the World League Against On September 30 Attorney Genera1 Brundage of Illinois delivered an opinion to Secretary of State Emerson bolding that tlie beer and wine question must go on the ballot for a state-wide referendum on November 7. This means that the question proposed in the petition filed by the wets will go on the ballot unless some court intervenes. League Urges People to Ignore Proposition The Anti-Saloon League has issued an appeal to the voters not to vote on this question as submitted. This advice will undoubtedly be followed by the rank and file of Illinois drys. The booze crowd therefore will have a little referendum all by themselves.

They will treat themselves to a make-believe beer and wine law which will put a make-believe.