Show BORAH URGES REPEAL OF LAW LAY LA Y If Prohibition Is Not En En- Enforced Enforced Enforced forced Idahoan Would rould y Abolish It CLEVELAND Nov By 19 19 By The Associated Press Supporters Preas-Supporters Supporters of pro pro- prohibition must either cither bring brin about a a. better bet bet- better better ter enforcement of the eighteenth amendment or face the fight to take It 11 out of the constitution Senator Wil- Wil Willlad llad E. E Borah Idaho told several se thou thou- thousand thousand sand und members of the National Grange at their convention here Friday night I venture the opinion that If 11 the thc eighteenth amendment cannot be en en- enforced enforced enforced forced and the pe people le so conclude they will take the eighteenth amend amend- amendment amendment amendment ment out of the the constitution the sen sen- senator senator senator ator said ENFORCE TORCE E A REPEAL The most solemn Impeachment of constitutional government lo that I can conceive of Is to have ha In the charter of government a provision pro that Is be being be- be beIng belog ing log constantly and notoriously noto That kind of or impeachment of constitutional government gO the people of this country will not endure You must either enforce this the amendment or face the fight to take bake It out of the constitution Declaring that all laws must be en enforced en- en enforced enforced forced by the agencies of of political par pu- parties parties ties Senator Borah told v the the grange members that when political parties take up this law and execute It with the same dispatch that they do other laws you ou will realize the worth of the victory for which you have been fighting for fifty years But so long longas as this stepping side-stepping continues there will IU be no adequate enforcement A SEVERE ERE TEST What I pm am asking for Is s party and political fidelity to the constitution constitution constitution tion as It has been written I am against the liquor traffic but I think more of ot constitutional government go than I Ido do about the liquor traffic Senator Borah asserted I 1 think democratic Institutions are passing through as severe a test as they have ha ever had or will have Fascism on one hand communism on the other and a 8 vast drove e of ot timid souls In be bee tween makes a pretty hard fight for democratic Institutions It If the time ever comes when a 8 provision pro of the fundamental law un un- under under under der which we live Is s scoffed at derided de derided de- de derided and denounced nullified and still sUI permitted to remain a part of the constitution that In my Judgment will wui be the final find Impeachment of con con- constitutional constitutional constitutional government I favor there there- therefore therefore therefore fore the mobilizing of every ery ounce of power and political efficiency that we have to enforce this amendment I would not compromise upon the sub sub- subject subject In any way shape or or form but If the time ever comes when It Is s apparent apparent ent that the people as a 8 people do not propose to enforce It then I venture to say they will take It out of the constitution and they ought to No provision of this constitution ought to tobe tobe tobe be permitted to stand Indefinitely against the will of the American peo peo- SORRY SITUATION I believe It can be enforced It Is s swithin within the power of or the party of which I am a member to enforce It If It It falls fats to do so o It strikes a blow at the cause of and a still stUl stillmore stillmore more vital blow at the cause of or con con- constitutional constitutional constitutional government go For a a. great political party to stand neither for maintenance or repeal seems to me mc a sorry plight in democratic d Declaring g that t those who ho favor or nul soul nullification l cf of the prohibition amend amend- amendment amendment ment have been thrown Into a state of or ecstasy 1 by discovering ering the fifteenth fifteenth amendment which they say also Is being violated Senator Borah called caned upon the Republican party to take a stand for Its enforcement along with prohibition BETRAYAL OF DUTY If H the fifteenth amendment granting grant grant- granting granting ing the right TIght to suffrage is s being vio vio- violated violated and It 11 can be b shown then it would be a a. shameless sham betrayal of or a public duty for f r the Republican party not to enforce It it or stand for Its re repeal re- re repeal repeal peal one of or the two Senator Borah spoke poke at the end of or ofa ora ofa a ritualistic service of the grange In which more than members In Including In- In including himself were given either cither the sixth or seventh nth degrees of the order ord The seventh degree Is s the highest |