Show BREAKING DOWN F DERAL RULE Xi Almost most as a note ot of o defiance s c the statement of ot Captain W II H Stayton I in regard to prohibition g re received four tour severe blows within two weeks The captain giveS the list as follows The rho supreme court decision on he he carrying ot Of liquor b by American ships on the high seas the refusal Ol ot or the Pennsylvania legislature to se the enforcement Item the by the New York legisla legisla- legislature lure ture of o the state stale prohibition law lawand lawand lawand and the of Judge Knox d de do declaring daring claring that the tha limit on the num num- number num- num number ber her of physicians prescriptions was Then rhen Captain Stayton ds to make a declaration in direct con met fIlet with the latest utterance ce of President Harding He lie says In every instance the incIdents l reflect either cither tho the sentiment of ot the people or tho the supremacy of the constitution over the tyranny of othe the zealot The first Is true kite of the action by the New York and Penn Penn- Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania legislatures while whilo the lat latter ter seta sets the bounds to which Purl Purl- Puritanism Puri can go In a free country and po points ts the way to an approach to the whole question of or the liquor constitutional constitutional traffic along sound Bound and lInes In their practical ap- ap application ap application all alt tour four Incidents bavo fur tar further further ther opened the floodgates to the this illicit liquor traffic although has come through the Inherent act it itself weakness of ot the self President Harding maintains that New York and Pennsylvania are conStitUtion constitution out of o harmony with with nth the their must retrace tion and they days of steps Citing ClUng back to tho days slavery he ho quotes Lincoln as say cay saying ing lug the country could not be half slavE and half halt free and now it can cannot cannot not be halt half dry and half halt wet wot There the tho I lia a ad aery and d ry e every ry state must do its law lawor lawor part to uphold the fundamental or America will cease to be a n nation na nation tion of r firmly ly bound states No doubt these rebellious acts of break breakdown breakdown breakdown the states are helping to down the law but the country must Insist on enforcement The one re- re recourse re recourse course coarse for tor those opposed to prohibition prohibition the eight eight- eighteenth eighteenth eighteenth tion lion Is to seek to repeal amendment railing in that they must yield to the mandate of the constitution |