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f fiE garden Island Tuesday, octobek 24, 1922
THE GARDEN
Issued Erery Tuesday
ISLAND
KENNETH C. IIOITKIt
Managing Editor
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 24, 1!)22
HUM'S
h'EFEUEN
DIMS
It is essential tliat Hie forces of prohi
bition throughout the United States should
he alert to the menace involv
ed in such ref-jrendum votes
as that asked in Illinois ou
the neriuissabiiity of light
wines and beer, and in Mas
sachusetts on the approval of the state en
forcement law. It is perfcMl.v true that
should the vote on either of th. issues be hos
tile to prohibition, as the 1 iw at present
stands, it would be still effective
legally. No state can by its independent ac
tion annul within its own be. tiers a consti
tutional amendment. If that were possible
it would have been entirely v. ithin the pow
er of any individual southern state at any
time since the Civil War to re ,nact laws leg
alizing slavery. If it were possible, any state
in the Union today might by a successful re
ferendum vote deprive women of the fran
chise. It is perfectly apparent, therefore,
that nothing which the individual state does
can affect the binding authoriiy of the Eigh
teenth Amendment.
But the success of (he I'npior forces in
either of these referendum votes would be
used by them as a powerful weapon in their
present campaign to capture the country
again for rum. It would make enforcement
of law doubly difficult. In Massachusetts
the success of the liquor forces, by the de
feat of the state enforcement bill, would
mean that the fines paid by violators of the
Volstead Act would go into the national
treasury insetad of into the state treasury.
AYe would speedily hear from the friends of
the saloon of the burden imposed upon the
state and of the diversion of state moneys
into the national coffers. If the Illinois
proposition should succeed, the Nation would
be told that one of its biggest states had re
pudiated the Eighteenth Amendment in let
ter and in spirit, and that efforts to enforce
it there must be regarded almost as the im
position of the will of the conqueror upon an
unwilling people.
For these reasons it is essential that all
who desire to prevent the return of the sa
loon to power should vote against every prop
osition to weaken in the slightest degree the
force of the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead Act by which it is given effect, and
for all endeavors to make enforcement more
certain. It would be folly to ignore the grav
ity of the situation present or to underesti
mate the strength of the liquor forces now
engaged in the effort to undermine temper
ance. These forces are thoroughly organized,
liberally financed, and possess spheres of in
fluence in sections of society where it was
not supposed anarchistic activity against the
enforcement of law could find any place. It
must not be forgotten that great and presu
mably respected financial institutions in New
York, and other great centers, are still heav
ily burdened with commercial paper, issued
by distillers, which they hold and on which
they can recover only by breaking down the
ride of prohibition. This fact goes far to
explain the apparent connivance with law
lessness of many apparently respectable forc
es, both journalistic and political, which have
allied themselves with the movement against
the Eighteenth Amendment.
There never was a time when universal
vigilance was more necessary than now. The
moment is critical. The fight for the reestab
lishment of rum is at its fiercest today. The
forces of temperance have won a notable vic
tory in the recent primaries, which have giv
en assurance lhat the next Congress will be
quite dry ami probably drier than the pres
ent one. But that is only a skirmish. The
main battle is still on. Victory in it, while
it will not assure a final triumph, will drive
back 1he forces of lawlessness and disorder.
Illinois and Massachusetts are the stragelie
points. The people of these states should be
particularly awake to their duty. 1'hri.itittii
Srinin' Monitor.
The world owes us a living, but it pays
on the installment plan.
Our objection to putting Europe on her
feet is she always wants to sit right down
again.
Uncle Sam says each citizen should have
.i'.t.'.i:!. If you haven't your per capita ask
your wife. She may have frisked your pants.
Some fellows who think they belong to
the uiu-r via stalled counting from the
wrong direction.
The world has made wonderful progress,
but we still have people with little enough
sense to rock a boat.
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A FEW WORDS TO THE REPUBLICANS
(From the Star-Bulletin)
Republican leaders of Hawaii have done
well to sound a note of warning against oy
erconfideuce in the present campaign, which
will terminate with the election of November
7th.
Being normally Republican, and with Re
publican territorial and national administra
tions, it is almost iuconveivable that Hawaii
should send a Democrat to represent it in con
gress, but the one factor which might, bring
on that political catastrophe for it would be
nohting less would be overconfidence on the
part of the Republicans, an overconfidence
induced by the smashing victory won by
Delegate Baldwin at the recent special elec
tion. The Star-Bulletin repeats what it has
said before, that of the two candidates for
delegate, Senator John II. Wise and William
1 Jarrett, it believes the former the best
equipped by training, education and actual
exierience, to represent this Territory at
Washington. These are reasons entirely apart
from the political exigencies of the situation
which should influence voters in Senator
Wise's favor.
Mr. Jarrett was an excellent high sheriff
and he is a good, honest citizen. Nothing per
sonal can be said in derogation of Mr. Jar
rett. The fact remains, however that he lacks
virtually all of the qualities which have been
cited in support of Senator Wise's eligiblity
for the office he seeks. Jarrett does not know
Washington and its public men as Wise does,
nor has he the personal address essential to
a forceful and effective presentation of Ha
waii's claims to recognition.
The Republicans throughout the Terri
tory must not, however, make the mistake
of underrating Mr. Jarrett's political
strength. He is widely known and popular,
with a large personal following. Many votes
will go to him of personal friendship, from
men and women who hold the personal equa
tion above a critical consideration of what
is best for the interests of the entire Terri
tory. The Republicans will win and Senator
Wise will be sent to congress, but to make
these desirable accomplishments certain every
man and woman in Hawaii who call them
selves Republicans must do their full duty
to the party and to Hawaii.
Cash registers are not of much use in
Russia. They prefer hay balers for putting
their money away.
Maybe the reason a drummer is good at
talking is because he lives away from home.
We can't understand why Europe should
be so poor. She doesn't have to support an
army of bootleggers.
Why is it that when a man has some
thing the matter with hint his wife does
most of the suffering?
We read where New York crooks stole
a patrol wagon. There is some talk in that
city of nailing down the Brooklyn bridge.
I'eople long for the good old days when
they could read all the way thru the big
city daily without finding a word about
strikes.
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