Home and State (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 1922 Page: 2 of 8
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PAGE TWO
HOME AND STATE
July, 1922
WARD THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT.
MAJOR CRIMES DECREASE IN CHICAGO
for
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BOOTLEGGING AND BOLSHEVISM
PROHIBITION DECREASES INSANITY
NOTE
FOR WHOM TO VOTE.
STATE OFFICES.
I
1919
1920
1921
%
Robberies
2,912
2,782
2,558
Murders
330
194
190
Burglaries
6.108
5.495
4,774
The Chicago crime commission because of its reputation
accuracy of statement, soundness of principle, fairness of judgement
and courage of performance, has earned the full confidence of the
CONGRESSMAN TINKHAM HAS ANOTHER
NIGHTMARE.
Dr. Geo. H. Kirby, Director of the New York Psychiatric In-
stitute and professor of Psychiatry for Mayer University, in an article
in the American Medical Association, give the following statistics
on the effect of prohibition on insanity. At the Bellvue Hospital,
New York in 1917, the last wet year, there were 5,849 alcoholic insane
received. In 1920, under prohibition, this had decreased to 2,001.
For the first 10 months of 1921 this had further decreased to the
rate of 159 per month, it was 192 per month in 1920.
In the State hospitals alcoholic insane admitted in 1917 were
594. In 1920 this had decreased to 122.
Dr. Kirby further states that drug cases of insanity have not
increased, but rather decreased under prohibition, and that there is
no form of insanity that has shown any increase under prohibition.
Secretary of War Weeks recently delivered an address before
the gnaduating class of the Pennsylvania Military Academy in which
he attacked the prohibition laws and declared that if he were a mem-
ber of Congress he would vote to legalize the sale of beer and wine.
When the press brought the report of this address to the people
the editor of the HOME AND STATE sent the following tele-
gram to President Harding:
“Newspaper reports of speech made by Secretary of War Weeks
at Pennsylvania Military College very disquieting. A man of his
intelligence must know that to legalize sale of beer and wine would
subvert the constitution. Such a message to the students of America
cannot be wholesome for creating loyalty to our laws and constitu-
tion. Conditions are too much disturbed for members of the Cabinet
thus to denounce the fundamental laws of our Nation. Is he voicing
the policy of the administration?”
Referring to the telegram sent Mr. Harding, Mr. Webb continued:
“I do not at all believe that the speech made by Secretary of
War Weeks meets the approval of President Harding.- I know it
will not meet the approval of the Republican party and if the secre-
tary campaigns for the liquor interests, the Republican party had
just as well prepare to vacate the White House._ I know too well
the temperament of the dry Republicans to believe that they will
stand for such speeches.”
On the 4th day of July, in his home town, Marion, Ohio, President
Harding delivered an address touching upon many things from which
we quote the following concerning the Eighteenth Amendment:
“The Eighteenth Amendment denies to a minority a fancied
sense of personal liberty, but the amendment is a will of America and
must be sustained by the government and public opinion else con-
tempt for the law will undermine our very foundation.”
In this speech no reference was made to Secretary of War Weeks,
but evidently the question in the above telegram as to whether Weeks
was voicing the policy of the administration was answered.
For Governor—HON. PAT M. NEFF, for Re-Election—Governor
Neff is not only a life long prohibitionist, but is sincerely
enldeavoring to see that all of the laws of the State are en-
forced. His efforts n behalf of prohibition commends him to
all the frineds of this cause.
There has been a good deal said by those who oppose
Govenor Neff to the effect that he is not doing all that he
should to enforce the law. They have special reference to
such outrags as are hargeed by some to the Ku Klux Klan.
We believe that Governor Neff is doing everything that he
can. For further discussion on this read the front page of
this issue of the HOME AND STATE.
HON. FRED S. ROGERS, of Bonham, is a candiate for
Governor, and is supported by Former Senator Jos. W. Bai-
ley, and, we understand, has been endorsed by the Associa-
tion Opposed to National Prohibition. While Mr. Rogers, we
believe, has a prohibition record, he is bitterly opposed to
those measures that the prohibitonists of Texas believe are
essential to the adequate enforcement of the prohibition laws.
FOR UNITED STATES SENATE.
There is no question but that the liquor interests will make a
supreme effort to secure a modification of the Volstead Act as
well as weaken its enforcement. Their first effort will be to se-
cure such an amendment as will permit the sale of beer and wine.
Failing in this they will make an effort to increase the amount of
alcoholic content. Any such increase will tend to defeat the en-
forcement of the law.
For these reasons it is of supreme importance that we elect
men to the United States Senate who are not only opposed to
beer and wine, but opposed to an increase of alcohol permitted
in beverage under the Volstead Act. If the prohibitionists of
Texas would be safe at this point they cannot afford to vote for
any one except bonafide prohibitionists of long standing. It is
always wise to to be shy of those who are late recruits.
HOME AND STATE endorses Hon. Cullen F. Thomas of Dal-
las and Hon. Earl B. Mayfield of Austin, as two candidates for
United States Senate whose prohibition records are above ques-
tion. Both for more than a decade have been ardent fighters for
prohibiton in the political history of our State. Their standing
on this issue cannot be questioned'.
The present United States Senator, Hon. Chas. A. Culbertson,
has always been an anti, but since the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment’he has cast every vote favorable to the enforcement
of this law.
Hon. Clarence Ousley has come out with a strong statement
for the enforcement of the 18th Amendmen, but at the same time
he is insisting that prohibition is a dead issue. This does not
sound good, for every intelligent man knows that it is the livest
issue in American politics today. For years Clarence Ousley
fought in the ranks of the antis and was delegated by them to
visit Tennessee and Georgia and write to the newspapers a dis-
cussion of how prohibition had failed there.
Hon R. L. Henry of Waco has always been an anti. For
nearly twenty years he defended them in Congress whenever the
question was brought up. By messages through the press and
otherwise he fought for the liquor traffic in every state-wide
campaign. His whole record is soaking wet. About two months
ago he came out with a strong statement n favor of enforcing the
18th Amendment. Evidently he had concluded that the tide for
prohibition had set in so strongly that a candidate had no chance
HON. HARRY T. WARNER of Paris, is a candidate
for Governor, and lays special emphasis upon the Ku Klux
issue. Mr. Warner is a prohibitionist but is bitterly opposed
to those measures that the prohibition officers of Texas be-
lieve are necessary if we would have these laws enforced.
For Lieutenant Governor—W. A JOHNSTON, Memphis.
T. W. DAVIDSON, Marshall.
BILLIE MAYFIELD, Houston.
For Attorney General—W. A. KEELING, who is filling out the un-
expired term of General Cureton.
For Comptroller—HON. LON A. SMITH, for re-election.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA PRESIDENT HARDING DEFINES HIS POLICY TO i
IS AN ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST. ------------------------ ----
Commissioner of Agriculture—GEO. W. TERRELL, for re-
election.
Superintendent of Public Instruction—S. M. N. MARRS, of Aus-
tin, present first Assistant Superintendent.
Superintendent of Public Instruction—ED. R. BENTLEY, Super-
intendent of Schools, McAllen, Texas.
For Railroad Commissioner—J. C. MASON, of Merkel.
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, is
doing his level best to put the working men of America into battle
for the return of beer and wine. In a letter to the New York Herald
he urges a tax on wine and beer as a method of raising a bonus for
the soldiers. Recently he gave out a declaration adopted by the
Council of the Federation setting forth seven alleged results of pro-
hibition and demanding in the name of labor that the Volstead Act
be changed. The change demanded means the virtual nullification
of the eighteen amendment. The National Labor Tribune of Pitts-
burgh, for fifty years one of the leading spokesmen for the American
workingman, takes issue with Gompers and enters vigorous protest
against the attitude of the Executive Council. The Labor Tribune
says in part:
"In the Pittsburgh district there is a widespread condemnation
of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor'in
denouncing the Volstead prohibition enforcement act. The toilers
in the American industries do not want booze. They want work.
‘A fine bunch of skates,’ said one of the toilers in the mills here, To
denounce the most profitable measure ever passed by Congress.’
Regardless of the hard times, children have bread and shoes upon
their feet and are going to school. If there is suffering, inquire the
cause and it will not be so much lack of employment as it will be
the squandering of the wages to keep up a still or swell the profit
of the bootleggers. No soup houses and some men have not worked
for more than a year. Go to church Sunday is more prevalent today
than in the days of booze.
“Away with Gompers and his organization. Finding the time
dreary on their hands they seek booze. An honest toiler has no time
for booze; none but a parasite feeding off honest labor has time for
booze. Gompers and his gang should be ashamed of themselves.
“Better that Gompers and his Executive Council devise ways
and means to secure employment of the idle toilers than to pass
resolutions for a liquid which has ruined every strike and torn asunder
every union lodge of workmen in this country. Who ever heard of
a drunken mill worker being able to stand the heat either at a
puddle furnace, a heating furnace, at the rolls or anywhere else where
heat is intense? Booze, the monster which caused so many acci-
dents, explosions and wrecks. The bank statements and insurance
reports and commercial prosperity with the elimination of the soup
houses during a period of depression, the like of which the country
has never experienced, is sufficient compliment to Congressman
V olstead.
“Labor congratulates Congressman Volstead for his interest in
behalf of the American toiler and he could be elected to Congress
from the Pittsburgh district, where he to become a candidate here,
where Gompers has never succeeded in getting a peep-in.”
for election if he opposed it.
James E. Ferguson, as every one knows, has fought for the
liquor interest and will still fight for it.
FOR CONGRESS.
Below we list those Congressmen only who have voted with
the prohibitionists during the last two years. Also we list oppos-
ing candidates who are pros—according to our best information:
1st District—Lamar, Red River, Hopkins, Franklin, Camp, Bowie,
Cass and Morris, HON. EUGENE BLACK, for re-election.
Dry record satisfactory.
HON. J. H. (Cyclone) DAVIS, Sulphur Springs.
2nd District—Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine,
Angelina, Tyler, Newton, Jasper, Hardin, Orange and Jeffer-
son Counties, HON. JNO. C. BOX, for re-election. Record in
Congress on Prohibition satisfactory.
STATE SENATOR L D. FAIRCHILD, of Lufkin, as a mem-
ber of the State House of Representatives, voted against the
impeachment of Governor Ferguson in 1917. As a member
of the State Senate 1921, voted against the bill for the re-
moval of corrupt officials.
In a recent letter to the editor of the HOME AND
STATE he says that he has been a pro all of his life and fur-
ther says: “I believe in the enforcement of all laws, both
State and National, and know no reason why any portion of
the Volstead Act should be relaxed.” Again, “I am in favor
of the enforcement of the law (the Volstead law) and if we
are going to keep the law, and of course we will, because the
13th District—Wilbarger, Baylor, Wichita, Throckmorton, Young,
Archer, Jack Clay, Montague, Wise, Cook and Denton Coun-
ties, SENATOR GUINN WILLIAMS has just been elected to
fill the unexpired trem of L. W. Parrish, deceased, and is a
candidate for the regular term.
His opponents were Miss Annie Webb Blanton, Judge S.
A. L. Morgan, W. S. Moore and one Mr. Bullington. HOME
AND STATE has no information as to whether they will run
for the election to the regular term or not.
14th District—Nueces, San Patracia, Wilson, Bexar, Aransas,
Kames, Bee, Guadaloupe, Comal, Kendall, Blanco, HON J. H.
CUNNINGHAM, San Antonio.
15th District—Southwest Texas, HON. JOHN T. BRISCOE, De-
vine.
16th District—West Texas, HON. CLAUDE HUDSPETH, El
Paso, re-election.
17th District—Palo Pinto, Stephens, Shackelford, Jones, Nolan,
Taylor, Callahan, Eastland, Runnels, Coleman, Brown, Com-
anche, McCullough, San Saba, Lampasas, Llano and Burnett
Counties, HON. T. L. BLANTON, Abilene. Dry record sat-
isfactory.
HON. W. J. CUNNINGHAM, Abilene, wrties: “I am opposed
to legalizing beer and wine; to increasing the per cent of al-
cohol allowed in beverages, and am in favor of putting teeth
■in by providing a penalty of confinement in the Federal Pen-
itentiary for any person to possess a still or for any person to
manufacture liquors for unlawful purpose, such penalty to be
imposed for first offense.” Mr. Cunningham has long been a
consistent pro.
world is going forward and not backward, then the stronger
the better.”
JOHN B. BURNS states that he is opposed to repeal or
modification of Volstead Act.
3rd District—Rusk, Gregg, Wood, Smith, Upshur, Kaufman, Van
Zandt and Henderson Counties, HON. M. G. SAUNDERS,
for re-election.
4th District—Grayson, Fannin, Collin and Hunt Counties, HON.
SAM RAYBURN, for re-election. Dry record satisfactory.
Former State Senator, ED. WESTBROOK, Wolfe City.
5th District—Dallas, Ellis and Rockwall Counties, HON. HATTON
W. SUMNERS, for re-election.
6th District—Hill, Navarro, Limestone, Freestone, Robertson,
Leon, Brazos and Madison Counties, HON. LUTHER A.
JOHNSON, Corsicana.
7th District—Henderson, Houston, Trinity, Walker, Polk, Mont-
(Continued on page 3.)
President Hainisch recently gave to Dr. Clarence True Wilson,
general secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and
Public Morals of the Methodist Church, a written and signed state-
ment containing his message to America which reads as follows:
“My message to America is this: Stand by prohibition, enforce
the law, because in proportion as you enforce it, there will be a
decrease in criminality, pauperism, insanity and other things that
make for ill human society. I regard the 18th Amendment to the
Federal constitution of the United States as 'one of the greatest and
most far-reaching pieces of legislation ever enacted by any nation
of the civilized world. We are thankful to America for the help
she is giving us in providing food for starving children and to the
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals for
the help it is giving us in furnishing means for the dissemination
of facts relative to intoxicating liquor.”
The President further says: “Austria should do something of
a bold nature to extricate herself from debt. We have issued 56,-
000,000 kronen of paper money. Our chief assets are a fertile soil
and an earnest and inductrious people. If we can add the virtue
of sobriety, with the savings that will result there from, we will be
a 100 per cent better able to meet the world’s demands and to put
Austria on her feet.” ,
Washington, D. C., June 25.—“The last attacks by Congressmen
Tinkham and Gallivan on the Anti-Saloon League and prohibition
enforcement are like the others, 100 per cent alcoholic. They are as
baseless as the liquor traffic which they defend is lawless,” said
Wayne D. Wheeler, General Counsel of the League who passed
through Indianapolis Friday noon en route to Kansas City to speak
at the International Sunday School Convention. “The Anti-Saloon
League of America obeys the election laws and the liquor interests
defy them. In order to distract attention from the activities of the
outlawed traffic, wet congressmen cry “stop Thief” and point their
accusing finger at the Anti-Saloon League. They are fooling no one
but themselves, and the beer and wine brigade who are back of them
These attacks reveal the fact that there is a nation-wide wet effort
to defeat Congressman Volstead and they are using a fellow wet
Republican to furnish their propoganda.
“The Anti-Saloon League of America has made the fight to pre-
vent wet organizations from defeating congressmen who have voted
against the liquor traffic. The charge that we have spent 150 million
dollars is ridiculous and false. We never spend one dollar where our
opponents spend fifty. The combined budgets of the Legal, Legis
lative and Executive Departments of the Anti-Saloon League of
America never reached $100,000 per year and only a small part of
this was spent in political campaigns.
“The League has reported the funds secured and expended for
political purposes as required by law. It is the only non-partisan
organization that does comply with the Federal election law. We
will help to make the existing law stronger and will insist on its
enforcement against the liquor organizations that now ignore it.
“Mr. Gallivan’s interest in prohibition enforcement on the sea is
like the devil having a thirst for holy water.
“We challenge the wet champions and their followers to join us
in the fight to sustain and enforce the law against selling liquor on
American ships, and to adopt a law top resent foreign liquor selling
ships from entering the harbors of this nation.
The time has come for a show down by the wets on law enforce-
ment or a shut-down on their camouflage beer and wine appeals in
the name of law enforcement.”
public. 1 he report of this commission is accepted as authoriative.
The report of the commission covering major crimes of violence,
murders, burglaries and robberies, for the past three years shows a
continuing decrease in these violations of law.
The publicity agents of the liquor interests have persistenly
circulated the report that there are more murders and burglaries
committed in Chicago under the Prohibition regime than there were
when saloons were operating, and attribute this alleged increase to
Prohibition. They have probably succeeded in making the people
of the nation believe that there really has been an increase in mur-
ders and burglaries in the second largest city of the nation. It is
time to refute this false statement of the booze interest and the Chi-
cago crime commission supplies the facts with which to dot it. Here
is the record:
Respect U. S. Law, But—
All of the official reports upon the wine situation in the United
States and wine exports from France to that country were careful
to say that there must be no interference with the internal laws of
the United States. Delegates representing the wine growers, how-
ever, in open discussion after reports had been read, were emphatic
in their declaration that some way must be found to circumvent,
pierce or jump over “the wall of prohibition surrounding the
United States.” Various means of propaganda were suggested, but
the most important move, in the consensus of opinion, would be “to
teach Americans how to drink—then they would find some method
of importing French wines.”
A resolution discussed called upon the associations of war
veterans of France to get into touch with American Legion friends
and former Canadian and American soldiers, who learned to appreci-
ate French wines on the plains of Picardy, Champagne and the Ar-
gonne, to tell their countrymen that wine is much better as a bever-
age than syrups, sodas and near beer.
LABOR CONGRATULATES VOLSTEAD.
The editor of the HOME AND STATE Las been as careful as
possible to get the record of every candidate for office mentioned in
this issue correct.
There is.no doubt good prohibitionists whose names are not in
-the list of candidates given here. The reason for it is that either
we have never heard of their candidacy or do not know their post
office address, or we have written to them and have had no reply.
We have used all dilligence to get every name that should be
on the list and to get their views upon the legislative program. If
any have been omitted we trust that nobody will presume that it
was done to hurt them.
The people of the State are looking to the HOME AND STATE
for this information and we would be derelict in our duties if we did
not do our best.
You see a party of rich men sitting around in their clubs and
homes, drinking- hootch—the real stuff, for they can pay.
There’s much boasting, of how they get “the stuff.” Much
rivalary, comparing their cunning in eluding the prohibition agents.
In other words, we have otherwise respectable citizens gloating
at their ability to evade the law.
If the hootch furnished by the bootlegger is the real thing, it
probably was stolen from some distillery—-either in straight burglary
or with the aid of forgers and counterfeiters of withdrawal permits.
A year or two ago, the same drinkers were afraid of the
Bolsheviks. They talked loudly about how the law “must be obey-
ed, in accordance with the principle of government by the majority.”
Their chant was “You can change the law it you want to. But,
while it’s on the books, live up to it.”
The bootlegger’s customer is lawless—a dyed-in-the-wool
Bolshevik.
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