Judge — August 7, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Editor, Norman Anthony. Ole Bill rs not for nothing, of course her signs without cause Nature never hangs out that Bill Borah runs to longish hair and flowing ties, to the wide-brimmed campaign hat and the orotund phrase. Bill at heart is a showman. If he weren't in the United States Senate helping to bedevil our foreign relations and championing the Volstead Law, one would expect to find him on the back end of a cart peddling patent medicines, or just outside the big tent selling tickets. This key trait of his explains a great many things in his picturesque career. It explains, for instance, why he could go down to Augusta, Ga.. and with a perfectly straight face thunder forth to the Protestant: Ministers Association on the wickedness of “nullifying” the Con- stitution, meaning, of course, the Eighteenth Amendment. He knew, and his hearers knew, that Georgia, with the consent and approval of its ministers, has been “nullifying” the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Con- stitution for more than half a century. He knew, and his hearers knew, that the forces of Prohibition, with the enthusiastic support of most Protestant ministers, have been “nullifying” the Fourth and Seventh Amendments to the Constitution ever since Prohibition became a national law. He knew, and his hearers knew, that in their zeal against the teaching of evolution, or their mani: for a blue Sunday, virtually all the Protestant mir in the South are working to-day tooth and nail to accom- plish the “nullification” of the First Amendment to the Constitution. But he never referred to these other ex- amples of nullification. Instead— ts "em alive! Eats ’em alivi un in eaptivit pahts! A monster never before seen in Impo'ted by the Liquor Int’rests! Feeds on con-stee-too-shuns and swallows gover’ments at a bite...” ee AHH SD Quite as bra: en, coming from Borah, his suggestion in the ch that “if neither of our political parties will take a definite stand on the liquor question, then let the people organize another party which will be loyal to the Constitution of the United States.” Has he forgotten that third parties have been formed cre this to further the objects he has advocated with all his eloquence, and that on each occasion, when the time has come for him to flaunt the new banner and brave the consequences, he has found it convenient to linger within the protecting folds of the G. 0. P.2 N me spe . he has Associate Editors, William Morris Houghton, William Edgar Fisher, Phil Rosa. Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan. not forgotten, but such memories rarely shame your true showman. “The public likes to be humbugged,” said Barnum, among other things. The First Hundred Yi Jor one hundred years ago Philip Hone, born in 1780, was Mayor of New York City. The World has been printing extracts from his diary which show him to have been a man of education and breeding and also of warm human feeling and common sense. The following extract is typical: Tuesday, June 21, 1831.—The usual exertions are now making to prevent the erection of booths on the approaching Fourth of July. A memorial was presented last evening to the Common Council to have them forbidden, which was signed by 1,300 or 1,400 persons. This is all nonsense, and so. I told them when they called upon me to sign their memorial. It is an easy way to satisfy the immense number of persons, citizens and others. who celebrate this great and only national festival, and although from the situation of my house Tam more annoyed than other people, T would not have it stopped. The selling of spiritous liquors in these booths is after all the only solid objection, but I think it better that business should be carried on openly in Broadway than in holes and corners, cellars and brothels. at the Five Points, or in Walnut street, which would otherwise in- evitably be the case. It should be remarked that Mr. Hone was not Mayor when he wrote this. But kindly compare this man and his sentiments with the kind of public man and the brand of official sentiments we get to- and then ask yourself how far we have traveled on the road to civilization in the last hundred years. If the unit of measurement is hypoc- risy we have done a Marathon. We Can’t Brag L T us suppose that the World War had broken out between two groups of States on this continent, and that the group which eventually beeame victorious had borrowed vast sums of money for the prosecution of the war from Europe. And let us suppose that in the end Europe, as a unit, had itself entered the war on the side of the States in its debt and helped them to victory. Would Europe also have canceled the debts owed her by these State: her now as and if not, would Americans be addressing Uncle Shylock,” or its equivalent, mutilating insulting her tourist A people that will spend during the current fiscal year a minimum of $41,000,000 to do to the liquor business exactly what Mayor Hone so sensibly deprecated 100 years ago has no monopoly of logic. W. M. H. her monuments Very possibl comicbooks.com