DRY LAW VIOLATES A RIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4

DRY LAW VIOLATES A RIGHT

.: (Siiiyvetant Fish, whose forebears were •inong those who fought for liberty in <1t76, has patriotic-.reason*' for^'his interest in the .'Aiio6jationis<>gpflS«d to the . ' ' Seited jbef ore Ms library'hearthstone 'aV'Nol-26, East 78th*treet, last evening' (says' the New •J ;"• Yjprk World of 17th April), with paint; ■ frigs. of, some of those ancestors smiling approval from the waHsjr' Mr.', Eish-.da-iiVered himself of the sentiments which explain those reasons. - . ' '?"Why am lopposed to the Volstead/ :'Act and the Eighteenth Amendment?" he• repeated. "Because I was"born a free, American citizen/and I don't propose to have my inalienable righte taken .from mo: and especially because of the ; • ''lift put into,'.the Volstead law that,_one T ■ ;ihalf of.l.t»r,'ce.nt-6f. alcohol i» intoxicat- ; i^X■■ wj^totKiß,ms^ l n^,,o^^^•■K^teenth■. ■ I*''''- ■ -eyer^lSu*^. ■' ''■••;'^:'?*;_. V'C'.';^:. ■k'ty^hiyo'^gat ii> gib our liberty back: if* w4^arevto-4%^to(Uß a j.fred'-prople.: 1 ■■ .! During 4ih'#^i^tpa;ttifitiC^;<atii!e^;jwere '' : igladH6^iV«';.^m'i't^ieir, moiti^cbiiniined. lights and'pi^swßwnaibecausethe safety ' :of their coiantry ,'denikncled this of them. ; ■ . "■.'•'Now tha^s|£^ii!;#p£iu*edj out Goy; ernment •mt^ir;ibn<^Cmore' become, 10 letter and in^iriti; doiwtUutional. - ■> 1 RESTLESSOTSStTHBiCitrGHOUT . ' '■■ NATION^U;.r : , ■'; "There is at present a restless moveilrient all over .the country .against the ■v. , ''aggressions'of the FederaJ-Government., All self-respecting citizens are. seeking to once more control _ their' o\vn affairs -'• ' iJocaUy / ■'■ ;■"■ '■;'.' \ [ :■;: '' |< "'; j"A certain \ amount' of alcohol, is a ■neeeSßity-ite;-the?l?e*ti.fflft3brity.;;'of r th» 1 human.raise, 'and" especially to labouring liren. The sick poor have b#en made to eifier awful hardship' through the en-; ■loiwsnerit \of the Volstead law. • They 'cannot afford to pay for a physician's '.i(presoription,;«very time their ailment or .their weakness requires a stimulant. i''The. same .situation warts to-day that ''existed before" .the. Revolutionary War, ■.-when people chafed' against the en'W'oachnientß of 'distant misguided and .airogant power. There were the battles over the Liberty Pole set up right, opposite where the Pulitzer Building iiow stands. Many pecplte have let those ; facta of Manhattan history slip "from ; Iteir ' mind^. -New York- ha« never ! written iiatory. .Maasachusett* has done, ■!»11 that1 lor her. So we are apt to think of Bunker Hill and 'the Tea Party and ' lo forget about the Battle of Golden Hill, down ;around Gold Street, in out .financial district May we hot now be entering upon, a like contest, with protests and resolutions and petitions which „ if ignored ' and rejeoted will have to I be followed up lay sterner measures later •i .i«>n? '■ ■ ■•■■ ' ■'.''; ■■• ALCOHOL IN HISTORY. "In the past 800 years'no, non- . . hlcbhol-Oonsuming nation has been a .victorious and Conquering* nation.. Meanwhile, the Mohammedan have been driven out of' Spain and much of-the rest of the north coast of the Mediterranean, and have been subjected to European Powers all along the south side of : "that sea. In jforth America, the originally non-consuming native Indian has . ■ been driven off the face of, the earth. In Central and South America the non: .consuming native has been reduced to „ , peonage.'.^. ,".',"• ~ ■", ;,'■'' '.".■ ;. -,'':'t'. ■ . ■ k'ln India,'-.iSrtat Britain has lbr x well ni^hl 200 years • maintained aii absolute ,'Eu'zerainty ■ of iZ00.000.000.t0 300,000,000 of professedly hon-b&'neuming Hindus and Mohammedans with an -army which .in times 'of. peace has never exceeded 80,000 men. In our own day the bulk'of Africa .lias been partitio.ieol among the European nations, and' Australia, almost a con- : •■'. tineht in itself, has been taken posses- . . «ion of by the British.. ' ' ■ '.-■■ I "If we are to remain a free people, we i .must have alcohol, have it in moderation, ! and have. it_,tindei- tiaos. regulation.' If, ''S ■ on' the cOtitSiry^we- should- become non£i\ sionstimers, we willy like, the rest) become 'eubjeet t6 one'fefj.otherf.of the.consujnitig ■?A races. .. _..., '. _ t ... " ; - . ijj'-i ■ "During rth'e late waif, although ■ the vv*s ''TJiiitfed States waagfeitingdriei and drier *tV^ *V6r. here, it waa found ;nece«sary when J^.'-i? - our boya 'over there' went into the firing *'£,']■ 3ina.^to let them.have* properly;and,by ''.?; measure, practically the. same-ration of:jjl.! ■ lightl wine:£Uid-'beei'"as tne-French-'and !r"-iA '.'-Bi-itish soldiers whb fought' alongside of ?';^-v. them aiid, ,the. : .. Germans, 'who .fought )'£.'£},. against-them -had. > Thank Heaven, our $>"li i *°ys wera n°t in that Te*pect put into $fts4 j*n 'utterly. unequal. contest! „..■.',, -..' ff-yS • "The recant election in the 37th Ooh-■"Xi-j igressional District of New York turned' 'squarely onth« dry or wet issue, with fijfi'** 'the result that the dry Republican can&s& jdidate, while elected by 3087 majority, {ig'gs 'failed bymore than 26,000. vote* of th» '"•V^»? Ixnajority received by hi« Republican pre•p-*?/ idscessor in 1920. , I hav*.never.had,ito :*-"■- Wo witK;party politics;'bntlmy gji'ees" is tliat? every s member of Congress who,'fof ' oiie reason or another, hah voted' wifc'd • '.'.'• th« dryi, is" now figuring out whether he ' can afford-to do so again. - - "The .real: ksac 'before 'the .'p«aple, lioWßvbr, -iiivo/vej! much- more than the eq-called'Volstead law, and forestißiiowj a" revolt al] dyer-"the" Union cgainst1 3Fe3eral ericiroaclimente 6n the.rjghtfS r»- ---■ Asserved' to the several,- States <thd the . ■''. ' jpeonle' thereof—local self-governmeut and ','■■'■' uidlviduiil ybwtjy.^'