| Show BORAH BORAK AVERS PEOPLE HAVE TWO CHOICES I BEFORE mEither m THEM THE Either Control Contro Appetite for Rum Rum Or Wreck Constitution N 1 Y Y 1 IS ASSAILED ASS State Wants to Be Bc Nations Nation's Saloon Solon Believes BOISE Idaho Aug Aur 16 1 By 16 WY G-WY By The Thc Associated Press Press of 01 the Eighteenth amendment havas haw hav ns as their objective nullification othe of 01 the tho United States constitution Senator William E Dorah Borah sale said Sunday In treating prohibition aJ a aa aia a governmental question which Is testing our self governing ability our courage e and our our patriotism to maintain law until the tho people Ih iii their wisdom see fit to change chance it It He spoke ata at atIl ata Il a community mass meeting under the auspices of the Bolso Boto Minis Ministerial association 1 The Th senator arraigned the tho NewYork New NewYork NewYork York referendum and declared the Question Is not that of wet or ordry ordry ordry dry but that opponents of the tho Eighteenth amendment are ar advocating eating cating the th old Sold principle of nullification He described the Eighteenth amendment as specifically ex ox explicit ex- ex explicit In Its It d to put an end to th the liquor traffic just lust as the Thirteenth amendment was designed to put an end to flav-ery flav slav slav- slavery cry ery ALL ARE IU nn BOUND D The amendment Borah added binds every citizen and every public officer whether state state or federal and every state or every public officer not looking to en enforcement of ot tire tin Eighteenth amendment is absolutely disloyal The Tho The governor of every state takes an au oath to support th thC constitution of o the United States Slates Dorah continued and acid It thus be becomes be- be becomes comes romes the duty of the governor or r any tate state executive officer to uphold the th Eighteenth amendment lust just as It If It were a part of ot tIre tho state constitution L v The senator declared ils Its Its- should sho appeal to the wet as OS much as to the tl dry when he urged obedience to the tho law because It Is the law not we think th the law Is the wisest but because e the tho people have rave written it Into me tue constitution constitution Lution Ho He pointed out that the Eight Eight- Eighteenth amendment went Into tIre the constitution after aler con con- consideration consideration and reflection that It represented the will wiil of ot the th Amer Anier- AmerIcan American ican can people and was In itself Itsel a of oe a Il great national that policy that th the liQuor traffic should be prohibited throughout the Iho wide range ranee o of oe the Union Americas entrance Into the tho war best disclosed that the liquor WI wis undermining tIre the man man- manhood manhood manhood hood o of America TEST OIl IOn AMERICANS After a provision has hns been written Into loto the constitution and the he question of oe Its Ils observance irises arises th the capacity of oe th the Ameri Amen American American can an for tor government self Is Senator Borah DOrah continued Opponents ot of th the Eighteenth amendment propose to have In In- In Intoxicating regardless of whether the th constitution the law permits ur or not It has ha Decomo a question of ot whether or not the people ut tho tuG United States will tive up their appetites or wreck the lire entire fabric of ot the th constitution constitution tion ion by the doctrine of oe nullification Lion tion I 1 believe they will vote ts as they did before and uphold the tho Senator Borah Dorah described the New ev rork ork referendum as the tho themo ever t original proposition submitted In the tho history ot of poll poll- tics poll tics ic New York he continued proposes to determine what Is 1 intoxicating liquor and In this way we would have forty fort forty standards and kinds 1 of liquor In th the United States State A A- A tow fow lays das ago aco I 1 submitted an nn answer to o a a letter written by Clemenceau end and today I received a telegram morn from a New York man asking me wiry whY I did not go co to France Franc to lind out what the tho French wanted Pa On the question of oe the referendum I I might ask the tho people of Now New Newyork York to go co to the th United States to out what they want AMAZING JUI STATEMENT The New York referendum Is the John C Calhoun theory and this Is what tho leaders of ot NewYork New NewYork York fork aril ar are trying to put Into effect today oday Andrew Jackson on hla deathbed regretted that ho ire had hadnot hadnot not ot hung hune Calhoun Now York Is ft 0 great a-great great common common- commonwealth commonwealth wealth and there thero is nothing to prevent New York from shipping liquor to the tha United States and thus hua becomIng the tho saloon keeper of f America I hive have not DOt enough to express my contempt for or the principle written Into that Proponents of ot the referendum would 1 thIs government A great New York newspaper made mado an on astounding statement In an editorial a few tew lays days astounding ago ato In any outside or of o nus Russia la TIre statement was The Tire laws of o tIre the country y are ore not on the statute books but in the will and wishes oe f the tha people That lat I t Is bolshevism W We Ve are ot Teeing lacing repeal or of oe the Eighteenth but the old principle of f nullification collon Are Aro se w e to permit this his doctrine to result In annul annul- annulment annulment ment of o government through the Influence o ot of the liquor traffic In discussing the tho objections raised to to Iris his stand tand on the Iho lh Eight Eight- amendment Senator Borah said I 1 have the tho same viewpoint vies on Continued oil On lage l'age T 1 0 o BORAH POINTS POINTS OUT CHOICES Continued From ITom rage Page One the Eighteenth amendment as I Ihan have han on the Fourteenth and Fit Fit- Fit amendments Violation ot of o the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments Is not justification for tor violation of ot the Eighteenth amendment It Is the part ot of 01 good citizenshIp to see to It that thai all amendments and laws are tip Up- held Wo SO are not violating th Fifteenth amendment and aliI I am am firmly convinced the South In Ir good faith Is endeavoring to live up to the Fifteenth amendment Augusta negroes vote with with a a great great deal deal lell less fear than In the city of ot Chicago LINCOLN Senator Borah declared that Lincoln much though ho bated hated ala slavery very upheld the fugitive slave law Jaw and condemned the spirit ot of nullification The Tho two great forces for tor nullification In American his his- history history tory the senator added have been to protect the traffic In hu- hu human human man beings and to protect another tr traffic c In human souls o o one nas over cone Justice to Mr Wilson tor for his efforts to eliminate vindictive terms of the Versailles treaty Senator Borah Borab said In describing Americas America's great great- greatness greatness ness It he had been success success- successful tul ful the rehabilitation of ot Europe Europi would have been advanced fifty years year Europe wonders what makes make America great greaL It i Is III our devotion do to law and order but once ws we wi plant the Idea ot of tho the New ew York referendum In the hearts ot of o the thi American people we wo will have de de- de destroyed our very principle of ot gov- gov gov government eminent We will have under under- undermined undermined mined the tho fabrio of ot our ability to t self govern that which makes makel America the envy of ot the civilized cl world 00 |
