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Show I SEES DANGER IN 1 UQUOR BALLOTS, Bishop Nicholson Fears I Organized Attacks on Amendment NEW YORK, Nov in (By the As-i As-i Mciated Egress) Tho heavy Democrat; j vote last Tuesday In states where , jinuor was made an Issue wm not a Ii il referendum on the prohibition question. Bishop Thomas N'lcholson. resident bishop of Chicago for the , Mothodlet I'.plscopal church and national na-tional president of tho Anti-Saloon I )c riffii.' declared today. He said tho election was tpo pomplicated by oth-j r issues and it was too early to i , tresa a final judgment on wthat had j occurred. "1 predict.' he said, "that before : We get through with it, the prohibition question will test t hi; foundation of our democracy and will be as prominent i.. -I 1 J I ...I li I u , I. I., tn I have an efficient democracy, as was from another point of view, the Civil war.". fight; until death "Prohibition is here to stay." was another declaration, "and we are hero i nutil death do us part, to help make it stav." The so-called referendum vote on tfohlbitlon in Illinois, Bishop Nichol-I pfcld said, has llttlo or no significance The Anti-Saloon leaguo and the thurcheM distinctly and actively urx-. urx-. (i their people not to trote at all on li issue.'" lie added. "I honestly believe be-lieve thai to do so under conditions H Illinois was really to be false to the i institution and the law of the land. Die referendum could have no legal Height Of any sort and to the drys It J I4peared as encouraging the peoplo to , indorse disloyalty to the constitution ) myself, did not vote on the Issue Und I am sure that probably 90 per t-pnt of the church and temperance peoplo utterly ignored it. COMPLICATED MOTIVES "The Issue was complicated with many other Issues, in Michigan, the , result on the scnatorshlp was deter- i 1 lulncd by the Newberry issue. In other j Ij'ection.s th BOiaiers Donus diii ik- , viVed largely; in others, the 1 'augherly injunction In few. if any. pla. s wa-i , thero a straight out issue on the pro- i hibitlon question "Nevertheless, on the face of the returns, re-turns, it seems to be a fact that the I frort of the wets to nullify our laws , and to begin the proi iss of breaking Jjown the constitution of the United States, has had no inconsiderable ef- , Ifcct. They have boasted that they had jjiore than 30 organizations, most of Acm well financed in organized i f-orts f-orts for this purppsi To mj mind he question now raised, is distinctly irgcr than the question of whether , e shall have beer and licht wines. It a question of whether democracy' Can make good. H w DANGKJiS POINTED OUT j "If heavily financed and selfish organized or-ganized groups ean proceed to defeat the will of the people, and If their ( hief argument Is as It has be.-n that ihey would see that the think could never be enforced, then wc have no Jtocurlty for our democratic institutions People are Immediately encouraged to j keep a perpetual flcht against any lav,-I lav,-I hlch does not ph ase tin m " |
