AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 5

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT SENATOR BORAH’S APPEAL, Presi A-.sociatton—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 13. (Received November 14, at 9.25 a.m.) Senator Borah, addressing the New York Women’s Committee for Law Enforcement, said that the issue in which the people of the United States were interested above ail others was the Eighteenth Amendment. He added: “ Everybody, except the deaf and the dumb, and the candidates for public office will bo discussing it. The people of the United States, under proper leadership, will enforce any law which they are unwilling to repeal, or repeal any law they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play this game below the intelligence, courage, and character of the voters. Merc political expediency in the clear sunlight of this issue is both discredited and futile. We know that the spirit of lawlessness has come to be the most stupendous problem in our national life. We know frftm the decisions of .the Supremo Court that we are passing through a period in which corruption has reached the very doors of White House, and dominated Cabinets, and robbed the people of their inheritance.”

The speaker concluded with an appeal to candidates to announce their posilion regarding the Eighteenth Amendment, and added that the women alone could bring the political parties to support the amendment.