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A “DESPERATE SITUATION’’
The phrase is that of Mayor Dever of
Chicago. Testifying before the Senate com
mittee, he pointed to certain assured evils
which have flowed from the Volstead act.
Be it remembered that he favors its en
forcement, so long as it is the law. Let it
not be forgotten, either, that before he be
came Mayor he had been a Judge. He is a
man who weighs his words, and speaks on;
the basis only of what he believes to be the j
ascertained fact. For his own part, he
frankly admitted that he had in his pocket j
no ready-made and infallible remedy. It
was for Congress to see what could be done, j
Two alternative policies lie open to it.
One is modification of the statute, a change
of the “demonstrated falsehood” of its def
inition of intoxicating liquor, and a release
to the States of a larger measure of con
trol over the interpretation of the Eight
eenth Amendment. The other course is to
heap one Draconian statute upon another.
Make the possession of an alcoholic bever
age or the ownership of a private still (ex
cept in a farmhouse) a felony. Run up the
expenses of the prohibition unit to $100,000,- j
000 a year. Stiffen the law in every way, and
fill the land with new swarms of Federal of
ficials to execute it. Mayor Dever admit
ted the possibility of such tactics, but he ob
served to the Senate committee “there is a
time when the “people will revolt even!
against legal methods if they become too!
oppressive.”
Such appeals and warnings are really
the most significant thing that came out of
the prohibition hearings at Washington.
There was a maze of contradictory evid
ence. Witnesses violently refuted witness
es. Not even on the simple fact of crime,
as affected favorably or unfavorably by pro
hibition, was there agreement. In general, |
the hearings were less of a judicial inquiry
than the opening of a public forum where
one set of beliefs was vehemently asserted
in opposition to another. But one thing that
could not be reduced to writing or put tan
gibly into the testimony was deeply im
pressed on all those present, and through
the press reports carried to every part of the
country. This is that the prohibition issue
has become very much alive and threaten
ing in our politics. Rightly or wrongly,
powerful -forces or discontent and resent
ment have been roused, and it is certain
that they are going to find expression in the
elections this year and in 1928.
Mayor Dever holds this to be unfortun
ate. He thinks that if candidates for office
are put up simply because they are Wet or
Dry, the effect cannot fail to be to bring a
lower order of ability into public life. Men
of proved capacity and high standing will
not be willing to enter a contest where the
chief issue will be their attitude toward pro
hibition. The Chicago Mayor is convinced
that this unhappy effect of prohibition has
already begun to be realized. He sees it in
his own city, and he deprecates its spread
elsewhere, especially throughout the whole
country in a national election. But what is
to be done ? Prohibition was thrust into pol
itics and forced to enactment by action at
the polls. By no other methods can a modi
fication of the Volstead act be brought
about. Those who are holding up hands of
horror at the thought of bringing prohibi
tion back into politics should stop and ask
themselves who first put it there.
In any case, the people cannot be stop
ped from talking about it and voting on it
whenever they get a chance. Here is ano
ther clear consequence of the Senate hear
ings. They have revealed not only an in
tense popular restiveness in the desperate
situation of which Mayor Dever speaks, but
a determination in some way to secure a
fresh consultation of public opinion in all
this business- This has been so strikingly
exhibited that it has deeply impressed a man
like Judge Gary. He believes in prohibi
i tion, both personally and as the head of a
; great corporation employing many thous
; ands of workingmen, but it is now his con
| viction that things have reached such a pass
that a referendum must be had. Whether it
results for or against prohibition, it is to
day the only form of safety-valve in sight to
j relieve a pressure which is becoming dan
gerous. Even an official of the Anti-Sa
loon League concedes that, in the end, the
! people will insist on being allowed, by one
I means or another, to utter their true voice
! in respect to this now burning public ques
| tion.
It has reached the point where it might
| almost be said of it, in Seward's words, that
it represents an irrepressible conflict. Nei
ther side shows at present the slightest in
tention of surrendering. The only hope of
compromise appears to be along the lines
proposed in the bill for a referendum vote
which has passed both houses of the New
York Legislature, and which the Governor
is expected to sign Should that appeal to
the people of this State lead to an over
whelming demonstration in favor of a
change in the Volstead act, the movement
toward the same end in other States would
receive a powerful impetus, and the final in
fluence brought to bear upon Congress could
scarcely fail to be effective.—N. Y. Times.
Alaska mosquit >es may lie vicious at
this time of the yea : , but nevertheless they
will eat right out of our hand.
Watt Terry, negro, son of a former
slave, is now the owner of more than a mil
lion dollars worth of New York real es
tate. But this is not so remarkable when it
is explained that he was for several years
a Pullman porter.
A STITCH IN TIME
Several complaints have been voiced re
garding the bursts of speed exhibited by nu
! merous local motorists over the new eut-of*
j road. Probably, if we had a car we might
| go and do likewise for it is a fine highway
! —but the cold facts remain stepping on the
gas on some of the “S” turns is taking un
necessary risk of one’s precious neck.
It would be well for some of these speed
demons to slow down a bit when approach
ing turns, or at least toot their hom here
instead of in Gabriel’s Domain where they
might be adorned with sprouting wings, or
perhaps, somewhere else witfi a pitch fork.
Lt. John A. MacReady, who reached an
altitude of 38,740 feet but failed to break
the world’s record, has resigned from the
Army aviation service and will sell electric
refrigerators. probably felt that he
could get no higher as a soldier.
Baseball fans are more interested in
the dash for the pennants than they are in
a mere dash to the Pole, which can’t be
used to hang a pennant on.
One of the mistakes of the speedy age
is that so many people seem to think not
oriety is the same as popularity.
If he howls about the way the Territory
is run, you can silence him by asking if he
voted last election.
We have pretenders to the throne in
this country, but we call them “advisers to
the President.”
You can take off your flannels now.
The ice has gone out of the Interior rivers.
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