Show BECKER SCORES I ACT I AS PERNICIOUS I II I I i Opening of Ogden n CamI Campaign Campaign Cam- Cam I for Five Million National Endowment Is I I Marked by Outburst I OGDEN April 7 G. G. G L. L Becker er opened the local campaign for tor the national endowment fund of the American legion at the HerI Herman Her lien I man Bal Baker er post No Ko 9 last night nigh by denoun denouncing the act After recounting the heroic deeds I of the American soldiers in the World war Mr l Becker repeated satirically but look what they did while they were away He lIe continued For Instance the passage of the tho act over President Wilsons Wilson's veto to my mind wasn't in harmony with tle spirit with which you ou men went out to fight to make the world safe for democracy Nor have the the golden promises made by the proponents of that act been realized We were told that taxes wouldn't be in- in leased that we wouldn't need any jails or almshouses or policemen drunkenness would cease and everybody everybody everybody ev ev- ev- ev would be be- good What has happened Crime is rampant jails f full to overcrowding courts glutted with liquor cases general contempt for the law everywhere violations of this law deliberate and wilful and universal taxes so high as to be almost at the point revenues of cities and countIes counties counties coun coun- I ties still inadequate unemployment general agriculture prostrated and I Imore more serious than anything else else else- the effect of having their homes else I raided upon decent and otherwise p patriotic and citizens who conscientiously believe that the use of liquor is not a crime Such procedure does not tend to make patriotic or better citizens of the victims thereof QUOTES DARROW Clarence Darrow recently said I This Ia law has filled our jails with people who are not criminals who I have no conception of doing wrong i Because as the immortal Lincoln said You cant can't make crime out of I things which are not crime i Even the draft law effective in I such an emergency as war provides provides provides' relief for conscientious objectors I Nothing like that In the j j la law In reply to an inquiry What Is the he worst law In the Unit United i d States Dr A A. A F F. Van Bidder of ot Bel el Air Maryland writes in Life as follows fol fol- lows The law of course course It has put a premium on hypocrisy demoralized our young yung people set the cause of ot temperance back a hundred years cost the country Billions in revenue enriched criminals crimi nals made criminals of thousands inflicted untold physical injury through consumption of bad liquors worst wOrt of all it has caused an al almost almost almost al- al most universal contempt for law lav Financially physically morally it has been an unmitigated curse INSANE LAW No wonder Commander Drain la lamented la- la ted mer-ted this tinkering with the con con- I find in Branns Brann's Iconoclast Iconoclast Iconoclast Icon Icon- this statement The eighteenth eighteenth eighteenth eight eight- amendment to the constitution constitution constitution tion was the first departure from fromI the faith of or the fathers It transformed trans trans- formed that glorious declaration of I American ideals and principles into nto a criminal statute Every other section-and section each of the other nineteen nineteen nine nine- I teen amendments preserve the rights of the states limit the power of the federal government and protect protect pro pro- the liberties of the individual is nothing but an In Insane Insane insane in- in sane attempt to make people moral by force make |