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Send all rna Items aad Adrfress all Inquiries to 57S and 580 Century Buildin B Telephone, Lincoln 7487. What Does the NationrNeed? To answer this question in a manner that makes that answer an unprejudiced, disinterested contribution to the subject itself is a task that demands some unusual Toneiderations. First, recognition that the question applies to the great fundamentals in representative government; that the people are primarily concerned with the unhindered, just and orderly functioning of the national will and

that unfair party or executive usurpation in legislative or administrative departments, is more dangerous to the common state than individual corruption. Second, intellectual honesty and knowledge of the political history of similar efforts in self-government of large populations. In the march of civilization America faces a new problem, different from the two great similar experiments the British constitutional monarchy and the Roman Republic in that the people are seeking amalgamation, with full citizen privileges within the national boundaries, under the one language and a single political creed, of peoples vaster . than any who hetrn.ved Rome, of races whose characteristics are and persist in remaining alien to those who gave them their language, their habits, creed and flag. Again, any serious discussion of the great American republic's promise to civilization must recognize the faith, the deep abiding prayer with which

the people ia world service, in spite of incompetent party leadership sad continued party misuse. Sixth. That the American republic also became the creditor nation of the world. Seventh. That Europe's distress and the issue for which the war was waged is unconcluded and terminating treaties not kept, largely through our defaulting leadership. Eighth. That the republic economically and politically alone among governments survived the world war with greatly augmented credit and prestige. This makes us the most coveted power on earth and the most coveted force in the world today authority In America. Nor should we forget the danger power inevitably engenders or the abuse of authority in those incapable of administration. "Weak 'kinds, mayors, emperors and presidents inevitably clamour for "more power." Power in the state does not exist apart from the state, nor can it belong to individuals nor party agents, except for the moment, as delegated by the state or by usurpation. We must realize also that a republican constitution that permits partisan

power to develop and perpetuate its own control is not only weak as a charter for a representative government, but actually provldes a way to destroy the just and fair exercise of the national will. All federal offices of a judicial, interstate, law-determining character must be removed from partisan party control or the republic can not endure.

Therefore, conscious of the above, the license trade has usurped, the wanton orgy and waste in the national treasury under pretext of excessive war needs then and still unchallenged because of bi-partisan party implications conscious also of a mature, organized, partisan party despotism

which is at this moment dtesperately extending itself by the spoils system to a point that should be resisted at all costs: First. A national constitutional convention should be called immediately for the purpose of restoring and creating necessary safeguards to protect the representative intent of that great instrument, commensurate with the larger needs of the greater republic. Second. The president should be stripped of the political grip of his party upon permanent federal administrative officers the Supreme Court, federal judges, all federal commissioners and the

federal reserve bank governors by taking from him the nomination of these officers. The president should have veto power upon a certain percentage of these appointments, A thought is a college of state governors to be given authority to fill vacancies and make appointments, meeting annually at such place, other than Washington and nearer the center of the nation, as the president might designate. The above amendment would do five great things: First. It would restore the president to the presidency of the whole country and remove

him from the tyranny of a spoil-seeking, boss-directed group. I Second. It would remove from party spoils offices too long corrupted I

and corruptible by party preferment. Permanent federal appointments should under no conditions have ever been under party control. Third. It would force partisan activity away from its interest in spoils and political plunder squarely into serious consideration of constructive

national legislation; compel parties to fulfill pre-election promises or

retire everv two vears without materiallv affectine- the nresident It

ii was conceived. We must analyze government machinery and those who : woutl ajso automatically open the way in party legislation to close legisseek possession of, and guide that machinery. We must consider the ' lative relations with cabinet heads.

lo.inders, their race, creeds and purpose, the civilization they attained, represented and delivered to us. There is not space here to review the informative evidence assembled by scholars, dealing with every phase of the creation of the American republic. Suffice it to say, the builders of this national administrative

machinery wore fugitive.1 from inonarcliistic political tyranny

cultured, of the highest racial type who migrated from northwestern i Kurope. :is an expression of their self-determination in all matters of l religion, morals and law. They were the offspring of rebels against a iiai iow political despotism more complete than any now extant, and their Miiall number made their chapel the natural mother of the town meeting. I Their learning and acquaintance with ancient culture, with early Grecian ! mid early Roman political experiences, made their sympathies logically j

republican, let, when luey found the baby nation in their laps, as practical men, i hoy turned to the use of the machinery of their mother country unit their colonial experiences, lleuce, America lias her Congress their model of Britain's upper and lower house; one created by and representing tin- people, the other created by and representing the state, and it is the belief that the American republic will either return to some form of more direct and effective slate representation and retain control upon centralization, possibly by a single national states congress, or the republic as

Mich must disappear

Fourth. It would restore some authority to the states, which belongs to them, yet would strengthen the Union. Fifth. It would relieve the president of corrupting friendships at this moment destroying administration. It would relieve him of a vast amount of labor and correspondence; give him time to develop knowledge and interest to executive guidance and much needed attention to the great

They were "uman welfare of the people utterly neglected m America.

cniru. a vigorous toreign policy (there is none) should be formulated and then instituted, based upon free world trade agreements

and open waterways, adhering rigidly to Washington's warning against "entangling alliances." Entangling alliances mean and meant "offensive and defensive alliances with foreign powers to protect foreign interests." At present our foreign policy is stained with ungenerous, financial interest and presidential ambitions by those in control, with undetermined trade agreements, and

whatever good might be gleaned from the fundamental strength of the i great republic's phenomenal position in world affairs is vitiated by the lack of either party having purpose or mental courage to conceive and ! formulate a policy dealing constructively at this crisis with world issues, i Europe's affairs are big with revolt of every kind. We stand at the , crossroad where civilization will either step back into one of the many ; periods of darkness or it will step to higher, firmer freedom. Sincere men j and not political mountebanks will determine this, if the course is upward.

With these legislative powers and the creation" of a central authority lifting for. about and between the separate sovereign states, a court was l:' fss;iiy to determine ail interstate questions as well as to pass upon the authority of the federal government itself, adjudging for the states and 1 1 1 tii .! ii i it the hitler in the authority they give the separate departments oi the national government and guarding against usurpation. The Virginia plan for the Supreme Court proposed by Randolph was, in l lie main, finally followed and in this leg of the federal machine is a ilisiiiict contribution to constitutional government. This sanctum saticlortitM v,ik and should have been kept the sound guardian of equity and the republic. Instead, intrigue of big business and political ambition have (hanged it into discredit. It has become the retiring bench for the politically faithful, or the incubator of presidential ambitions. In (he second section of the Constitution, in determining upon their cwcnlivc head, it is very clear, in spite of much discussion and consideration of the Roman plan of dividing the executive power, the framers followed the course of successful revolutionists and shaped that office about

Fourth. Europe's attention should be called at once to this unalterable fact: The Dardanelles are the gate and boundary of the East, West and South to the white, yellow and black races. The white races must prescribe the neutrality that is to be established there, giving international guarantees of protection to all and determination that bloodshed must cease. America can not escape the responsibility for the failure of the Lausanne conference. Fifth. A conference should be called of the great trading and manufacturing peoples of the world, including Russia, that conference to be held at Washington for the purpose of comparing and determining upon the natural order of national production of peoples' products, and for the purpose of finding the natural, unhindered course of production and markets and of finding friction and restraints, the initiative of trouble and war. Trade and exchange are the basis of war as they are the basis of peace.

Their freedom is the basis of happiness, as their restraint is the basis of

entire -question of political and racial destiny and define a wise, safe and true Americanism, - Therefore, following the calling of the national constitutional conventio and having set at work the machinery of restoration and completion to date of the intent -of the builders of the constitution; formulated a sane, sensible foreign policy, establishing definite world trade relations and protection for the freedom of trade internationally agreed upon. Seventh. A national, non-partisan convention should bo called at Washington of the most representative professional men and women, native Americans, Their firat work would be to determine upon naturalised alien representation in a fuller, enlarged convention, which would then determine upon their nationality and future Americanism.

Nationality Is not, as baa been stated, "an artificial political grouping of populations." It is in this case founded upon a common Christian bond, by people of similar longings and respect for law, of a similar creed, ex

pressing itself in certain freedoms.

The tariff has become the most vicious form of party purchase or reward for industrial support in political development. Out of a wise and once

necessary aid to industry, it has become similar to the sale of the right

to tax and collect duties in Spanish colonies, but more wanton ana crimi

nally unjust and without legal protection of any kind to the public.. It

is, however, more than doubtful if it could be immediately stopped, so power

ful and interwoven with the national political machinery has this practice

grown. However, this subsidy to corrupt and corrupting agencies of in

dustry might be converted into a genuine and permanent good.

The world markets will be free or war will continue. They will be free under international agreement. Permanent markets can be held only

by the competition of quality of material and superiority of workmanship

England and America know this and are preaching this creed from their

pulpits. Eighth. Protection should be recognized as a principle under the following conditions: The appointment of two commissions; one scientific; working with the Bureau of Standards and develop that splendid federal institution as the grading station of all products, raw or manufactured; the other, federal or executive, created by Congress and appointed by the governors to administer rates. The labeling of all products, and grade protection on the basis of quality should then be proposed; that is, give national help and protection, even high protection, for all manufacturers as they approached or excelled the quality or efficiency of similar world products. - Ninth. A profitable market should be secured for the products of America's great agricultural districts. Loans should be extended them under regulations flexible enough to stop the destruction of their farms, now in jeopardy throughout the great agrarian districts, remove the pawnbrokers from those great home-building peoples,

let their credits extend beyond the marketing period of their

products and give them an honest market for the profitable disposal

of their products. Tenth. The great Federal Reserve Bank should be restored, that great resource of national capital, to an institution for the preservation of easy, just and cheap credits, instead of, as it has been corrupted to, an agency Ol capitalism, used to legalize exorbitant "interest rates, imposed upon the very people who supply its greatest deposits. Eleventh. If the Norris amendment had not been passed, some form of direct elections for president should be proposed (with safeguards against demagoguery) and suppress the present form of national presidential conventions as unrepresentative, dishonest and, as managed, corrupt. Review In review, remember and be frank in the analysis of the course of the greater commonwealth. The colossal national sin is the general letting down, the adoption of quantitative rather than qualitative standards in

every measure of civilization, even the very instruments and technique of education. The standards of merit have yielded to the standard of bulk,

noise and vulgarity. The extent of America's greatness rather than the character, the purity or loftiness of her attainments prevail. Our carte de yislte has become the dollar sign. Politics in its first plunge downward in the north hoisted and held itself in place upon the "bloody shirt" and later upon the purchased support of wet-nursed, alien-manned industries. To protect these the legislative mills have fairly built storehouses for the law necessary to legalize special interests' thefts from the people, penalizing every possible exercise of national freedom which interfered with partisan or protected interests. The south sulks in its tent, justly, impotent politically, unfairly legislated against, outrageously used to this hour in all matters of political patronage, affronted by gross even worse stupid abuse in negro appoint

ments over southern native Americans. Even the Supreme Court has been supplied by that political anomally, the "Southern Republican." It would be difficult to invent or apply more unwisely or unjustly presidential prerogative in appointing partisans to departments that should be pro

tected from politics at all times. "The partisan rebellion against Wilson was trivial and unimportant as compared with the national disgust, and is only balanced by the growing revulsion against his successors. The unprecedented graft and waste, political hesitation and international failure of Wilson, Tumulty and Baker have, in their national consequences, not been corrupted by Harding, Hughes and Lodge. The first failed through inability and intimidation; the latter through deliberate connivance with interests, whose alien electorate has been a determining factor in crucial states necessary to per

petual power and presidential candidates. The only fundamental step that has been taken since Lincoln and Cleveland by any president was Roosevelt's revolt against partisan, party corruption in selecting representatives in national conventions. He was successful for his country, though he failed for his party. He escaped another army of new spoils seekers which had joined him as leaders. That was national good fortune. He succeeded in giving to America an

independent electorate with the courage and the habit of thinking after it,

FIERY CROSSES BURN

THROUGHOUT COUNTY

Lexington, Ind., May 5. Tata city and the entire county were thrown into a state of excitement Saturday night by a series of dynamite explosions and the burning of numerous lery crosses throughout the county. It is thought that the explosioaa and crosses were the work of the local Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and were a part of a county-wide demonstration by the Klan, although such a rumor was not confirmed. Rushing into the streets here following a heavy explosion, local residents were further startled by the sudden fiaming-up of a huge fiery cross on a hill overlooking the B. & O. station. Friday the local school secured a new American flag, which now flies over the school, and some unseen force in the county is urging that each school fly the flag.

Two fiery crosses were burned in Scottsburg. Fiery crosses were burned, and dynamite exploded Saturday night in Scottsburg, Lexington, Austin, and Vienna, all of this county.

NATURALIZATION CEREMOXIES AT ROSEDALE, PARKE COUNTY

Rosedale, Ind., May 7. Recently hundreds in this community witnessed the burning of a large fiery cross at midnight, near this city. Tha Ku Klux Klan has been rapidly organizing in Parke county for the past few weeks, and those who doubtsd

the activity of the organization were fully convinced at this time. The first evidence of any unusual happening in this quiet little town was the sudden appearance of more than 100 automobiles that turned east on Main street, and which was immediately increased by citizens who joined the crowd and followed the procession to a point one-half mile east of Rosedale, where behind a guard of white-robed figures was prepared a great fiery cross, which blazed forth from the top of a hill. The crowd continued to gather until midnight. After the cross was burned the

crowd gathered about campfires, refreshments were served and-a general jollification took place. Many remained until daybreak.

JENNINGS COUNTY SEES KLAN INFLUENCE

miserv and revolt. America alone, can ndiust this, and this fact alone.

I he leader ill hand. It should also be noted, in justice to them, that the makes it incumbent upon America to do it. lack ol proper safeguards for this office wifs due in part, if not wholly, Her decision will either regenerate civilization or America will become, to the Jngh character of that leader and the unqualified trust reposed in in fnf.r the desnised Pharisee nation the rich man's almshouse of dis-

l.iin. He was president of the federal constitutional Convention and nrstiOI.(iei.e(, in,manity. Europe's illness is artificial, is political corruption I entered the voting booth there voting independently for the best men

o mu .ue o.iH.iiiwu. ,.!. niKi. i :, uptime ami msmiei es-.eu economically controlled , rendering impotent her productivity and destroytliaracter alone explains the unreserved power entrusted to the office of ; iK her market. Europe's troubles lie not in her people. They were never in esiileiit . ! better prepared for great modern development. Their troubles lie in the Note how completely they delivered the national government over to the 1 general degradation, the corruption of their leaders.

executive. Section U ol the Constitution reads: i l The executive power of the United States is vested in the president. j In twelve words they place the entire authority, without qualification,; in a single pair of hands. Then they proceed to extend that power, author- I izing i he president to create the Supreme Court (one whole leg of the, triangle that makes the federal government), together with all other offi-; ers "not otherwise provided," which means oniy that he does not name the vice-president, senators and representatives. And those are all of the , leileral officers he does not name. j Then he is made "Commander in Chief." It is added here that he "may ret eive suggestions from time to time from his generals." This looks like. 8 concession to General Gates. Further, "the entire diplomatic corps" is! named by him, together with "the draft of treaties." True, appointments ' and treaties must be approved by the senate, but he has been given "veto j power over all legislation." This, coupled with his appointive prerogatives, i forms a power so potential, so dangerous, it is amazing that it has not long i

since destroyed the republic. The president's "patronage," so called, gives him a political power that Mfikes at the very heart of political freedom, otherwise anxiously sought throughout the constitution, and has utterly corrupted party politics, in

timidated senators and representatives and creates a partisan force over

North Vernon, Ind., May 7. Some months ago it was rumored that the Knights of the Ku Klux . Klan were organizing in Jennings county and from the number of fiery crosses burned in the various parts of the county, even to the most remote parts, one is led to believe that there are several hundred Klansmen in this city and community. However true this may be, and whatever influence they may have had, it is very evident that there is a marked change in law violations and vice conditions in this county. It is an outstanding fact that all of our Protestant churches are enjoying a rather noticeable increase in attendance at all services. The

general consensus of opinion is that it is greatly due to the activities and teachings of the Ku Klux Klan. Of the new faces seen at these services the majority of them are men who were never known to attend church before.

Sixth. In connection with this trade conference, a proposal might be made for the neutralization of all straits, canals, rivers, estuaries, bays or watercourses of every sort which lead from the high seas

inland to two or more nations. These straits and waterways to be governed by international commission, created on the basis of export trade. The commission's authority to extend for ten to twenty-five years, experimentally. Territorial rights of canals or contiguous territory in no way to be imposed upon or infringed. An attempt should be made to secure from the great powers an agreement that the Hague tribunal, solely and alone, should have the right and jurisdiction over granting the freedom of commerce

to any of these gateways. Its acts would be judicial and based' upon its decisions affecting questions that might come before it of an international character. Punishment of offending nations to take the form of prohibition of free trade through neutralized gates, during such period as the Hague should prescribe, or pending the satisfaction of judgments. The punitive plans of such power would be more effective than the declaration of war, without the destructive consequences. Humanity, once made mad, artificially goaded by banking brokers or

lapping succeeding administrations and extending over the states, that ! ' "UU1C1VC" l""'fu"J , an me prescriueu uu ut .,,! ,i,., ,... ,u. ;., ; destroying itself. Therefore, sensible men genuine humanitarians will

iitiniiiLn unit uroii o i ricariitnmr iui u mri v. Our forefathers also provided for the selection of the president by presi- SJP l"aHSfs r war- . - - . .lential decors in place of by popular ballot. This was deliberate and to , f Ttl,e camie ,ot war does not lie in the farm; it does not generate in the prevent demagogue.-,- an! should not be- wholly lost. j factory. It does originate m the brain of those who get control of the Just one more vrious and illuminating sidelight on those minds actually ! owtlut, of ,U,e far,m a"d factory . and international agreement and freedom renting the const.. Uon. There was not a single clause in the original : ol"atl? aIo?wlU solve the way to peace. , ' , document protecting tb rights of the citizens or safeguarding individual: Jh instability and failure of every European empire to date has been libertv and it was not until 1790-1791. at the first coneress under the Con-i Vhlefly attributable to the unsurmonntable barrier of alien race and

st it nt ion, that personal liberty was considered. Then appears the famous

i language conditions. Recent re-establishment of ancient nations has been

p.. ii ,,f i!ii,. in ti. ten .me,Hmi,', rnvirtin" fr fr. anAaeh fr n,- i 'ased upon race, language and religion. These conditions have fixed the

and the right of assembly. AH these amendments deal with specific pro- i Iwundarics of the new countries. There are in fact, no other boundaries lection for the citizens again., possible political tyranny, further speci- ! excepting artificia I trade barriers, called political.

tieailv slatinir that nnv nowers ,ot delegated in this Constitution to the "ci ica uuiit ioiu a wee uuui w.iwiu over corruption ui ucSeucia

Inderal government remain with the people, that is, the states.

It Is generally accepted as phenomenal that the extraordinary powers

given to the president have not led to disaster. This is due to the precedents of the original leaders and the inherent Anglo-Saxon respect for form: also because the forty-eight little republics that form the Union still hold sovereign authority, as well as political and economic control,

that act us a check

lion by racial, alien influence against the perpetuating of national ideals; but following 1870 and 1880 and the influx of alien races with alien religions establishing an, alien press, an alien civilization has grown and rooted itself to such proportions that definite national alarm has seized

the founder race, and organizations are forming throughout the land to

resist further denationalization and alien domination.

With the influx of Europe's distresses, we have Imported the most un-

Next to this and synonymous with it has been the national suffrage for

women. Our women are the finer and of the more intellectual fibre of the human race, and as evidence of this they have held aloof from the party of their husbands, fathers and brothers. Less corruptible, they will not

yield their vote to interests and the great burden of their influence will compel the government to turn to the large question of human welfare. These two freedoms political emancipation effected by Roosevelt and

the enfranchisement of women are the only hope America has for the restoration of the intent of the Constitution, viz : the maintenance in America of a great Anglo-Saxon republic, where the citizen and the smallest state can have their day, their welfare presented, respected and protected. Further, the president's advisors should not be confined to political gangsters, successful tradesmen or the "megaphones" of the biggest business, nor alone to men. Cleveland and Roosevelt in their second term3 were exceptions to the common practice, as were, of course, Lincoln, Wash

ington. Jefferson and Madison. Every great period in history has been great only and when the nation's life, from its politics down, instead of from its- politics .up, has reflected the standards of culture and learning

in its national leadership and daily life. A definite policy should be found and instituted for putting the meaning .of "home" back into the national house, ridding it of spoil hunters; time should be given for opening a large way for those who are sacrificing their time, unaided, in the great service to better medicine, sociology, science,

engineering, architecture and the .fine arts, to insure a healthier life, a better people, greater merit, better training and more beautiful cities, We have, dropped far below the standard of the colonial culture and

learning. Even the national capital building, finely conceived by those founders, is a model of neglect, retrogression and incompetence, misapplied appropriation, hodge-podge disorder and bad taste, truthfully and gro

tesquely reflecting this hour and government. Yet this same capital is

perhaps, as a building, in its large conception, one of the finest in the country, certainly one of the most important in its effect upon the people of America. It should be furnished with the taste that conceived- it.

Hundreds of unfinished federal buildings, flung about, barren and record-

less historically of the great life that has passed in their making, should

be completed.

It should be noted in these suggestions that none have been made, not

even the last, which would involve or strain, or even increase, the burden

of taxes; rather, every suggestion would lighten them and constructively

mark the beginning of a new era. But they would draw heavily upon what

seems almost a thing of the past, patriotism and loyalty to the funda

mentals of freedom. It would require volunteers to war against crimes

and usurpation if America is to be protected, if independent, republican government for and by Americans is to continue.

FIERY CROSS IN PARKE COUNTY

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It will also be conceded that the conscience of the nation and the all- : K Vi t- T . abiding trust in the Constitution have been a more restraining influence ""lettered and generally blindly religious. And as this immigration has gainst usurpers or abuses of power that would lead to disaster than has!(,lome B,a'n,Jr ,rom. tnet barker Mediterranean races and southeastern tt,.. r'rM,tut.n it.ir it iu i,n.w. n,ut win, ,- ,,.' Europe, there has been taken into the great republic peoples whose settled

Influence of alien races, their possession and known use of wealth, the I V ,. r tTl c J . . , .

nistrators have been trusted as far " , "Tc"

precedents of great disinterested admi

as it is pafe or effective; that the period has come when these influences ; cease to operate and that the lime has arrived when a general stock-taking j must be made anil a recharting of our national course. Tins has been di ue in the following lines, with concluding remedial j sugge-Uions, bearing clearly in mind these facts:

There are no sadder annals in the history of man than those enacted

by the peoples of separate racial origin, operating against each other

who meet about that inland sea .that washes the shores of Europe, Asia

and Africa. It is at this gate that the West challenges the East and the

South. Here the white race meets the yellow and the black. The brief life of Crete's and Egypt's greatness and the greater yet briefer heroic

First. That America was founded by "the pure3t strain of one of 1 periods of Greece and Rome prove the absence of those qualities which

the most law-respecting races in the history of men."

Second. That for the time and the standards of their life their machinery of representative government was adequate, efficient and clastic. Third. That the people are temperate, generous and politically tolerant; their recent sacrifices in life ami .wealth in a cause alien to themselves raised them to the first rank among peoples. Fourth. That following the unbridled imperialistic rape of Europe in 1914-1918, the great American republic, through the manner of its service, became the determining force among nations. Fifth. That this virtue belongs to the people and was acquired by

make Stability.

The question is, is this great republic as an Anglo-Saxon civilization

with a constitutional government worth saving? If so, it can not survive and administer the Anglo-Saxon principles of self-determination, maintain the original love of organization, preserve the inherent regard for common and statute law, or, moro important, maintain the great moral code all but extinct today la the great foreign dominated cities preserve the ideals

of family life, sincerity, loyalty and orderly evolution in political growth

except by the clearest and frankest definition of the intent 'and logical

course of nationalism and by creating laws safeguarding it.

Rockville, Ind., May 7. Following a series of meetings held in Bloomingdale, Bellmore, Bridgeton and Rosedale, which were attended by hundreds of Parke county residents who listened to stirring talks on Americanism, several crosses have been burned at various times the past week. People living near where the crosses have been burned tell of tha sudden blazing forth of the fiery messengers, but no one has been found who has seen anyone putting the crosses up. Many and .varied are the explanations being offered, but the consensus of opinion is that

it has to do with the recent activities of the Ku Klux Klan. A concerted campaign seems to have been planned for Parke county and hundreds of real Americans in the county are taking a keen interest in the Klan, and rumor has it that tha organization is rapidly growing in this vicinity. .

RIGHTEOUS LAW EN

FORCEMENT

No doubt it will be charged by those who would disparage Governor Pinchot's efforts to enforce prohibition in the state of Pennsylvania that he is whistling to keep his courage up. In an interview appearing in a recent issue of the Manufacturers

Record, published in Baltimore, the

governor sends an encouraging word

to those people in every state who are seeking some means of overcoming the menacing tendency toward

lawlessness. Beginning wita the re-

ru-ntrance that it is his purpose and

within his power to bring about com

plete enforcement of the eighteenth

I amendment in his own common-

A national convention must be called by the president to consider thejwealth, he answera those who are In

sisting that it has been proved that it is impossible to compel respect for

the law bv stating that, as a matter

of fact, "the United States is not only dry, but getting steadily dryer." There is no doubt whatever, and it is well for all fair-minded persons to appreciate the tact, that it has been a part of tha propaganda of the foes -of enforcement to make it. appear that nothing is easier than to violate the law. The same might be said, and with equal force, of any law which , society has enacted since the day Moses gave the Decalogue to the children of Israel. " The law for

bidding the bearing of false witness, the prohibition against stealing and against all the crimes which civilization has been taught to shun, can

be broken with equal ease. No human power can prevent such transgressions of the law, as human depravity may Incite or Inspire,.

But there 6re effective continuing processes by which observance of the law is encouraged or Anally compelled. Governor Pinchot does not hesitate to say that these processes are now active, and that the realization is being impressed that the law, written into and made a part of the constitution, is the approved policy of the people, the source of all governmental authority. He answers those wh are seeking to make it appear that the amendment attempts to prescribe a

method Of government adopted without the consent of the governed by declaring: "Slavery itself was not

more thoroughly discussed in advance of a decision thaa this very matter of prohibition, and no decision ever taken by our people was ever more deliberately registered, or more clearly in accordance with popular will." It is high time that Pie American people aroused themselves from the false belief In the power of the indulgent, the morally lax, and the vicious, to override and annul their solemn pronouncements. The theory

of government has sot been changed. The issue now la not whether prohibition shall be adopted as a national policy. It Is whether or. not the law, as it is written,, wittr tha approval ot the ieople. shall be up held and mpected. Monitor. . :