"Thursday, July 26, 1928
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Thursday, July 26. 1928
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GOATS NATURALLY BUTT
At this early stage the presidential
campaign is beginning to take on an
unusual character. The most notable
turn is that resulting from the ac
tivities of Dr. Barton, Baptist, and
Bishop Cannon, Methodic, in behalf
of Hoover. Following them are cer
tain editors and preachers who, some
times frankly and sometimes in thin
ly disguised form, are working to
ward the same end in their papers
and pulpits. The fulminations of
these throw light upon their own
reaction to the position they
taking. These deliverances and pro
nouncements indicate a somewhat
apologetic and dissatisfied state of
mind. The gentlemen know :ha:
their denominations have always
stood for complete separation of the
church and state. They realize that
their present activities are political
in their nature, and they know that
the general public will so regard
them. ]
Consequently, tlfcv are forced to j
explain or defend their actions. They ,
do so by saying that their present ;
political activity is because a great :
moral principle is involved. True, .
Bishop Cannon has already begun to (
talk about the Catholics, but, for
the most part, they seek to justify I
their action on other grounds than
that of antagonism to the Catholic ,
church. They confidently assert tha T i
the “moral element” will not sup
port Smith. They &peak of the “so
ber, God-fearing” Democrats rising
tip to defeat Smith.
That this also has its dangers for
them is being recognized. Demo
crats are beginning to see that thes*'-
religious leaders are dividing even
the Democratic members of their
own denominations into the two
groups of sheep and goats. The
“sheep” are those who follow these
reverend political leaders intc, ih°
Republican fold. It follows that
those v/ho do not so follow are tb.p
“goats,” and are either unmoral, im
moral, or lacking in the usual attri
butes of Christians. The danger
lies in the fact that goats are na
turally butters, and already resent
ment is being expressed at this
effort on the part of these distingu
ished of the moral
issue” to force life-long Democrat?
into the Rejuiblican party. Last
week two letters indicating such
resentment appeared in the Greens
boro News, one from a man and the
Dther' from a woman.
Outside the natural resentment of
hundreds of loyal and steadfast
Christians to such a classification,
there is an element of humor in the
situation, and that is the salt which
is destined to save the churches from
the otherwise natural consequence of
she wholesale slander of the tens of
thousands of men and women who
have loyally supported the churches
and lived sdber and devout lives,
for it is funny to see the hundreds
of Sunday school superintendents,
teachers, deacons, elders, many of
whom have been leaders in the pro
hibition movement, and yet dare to
support Smith, classified as unmoral
if not immoral. Only the broadness
of mind, the charity, and the saving
grace of humor of these men anc
women will prevent disastrous conse
quences to the churches whose min
isters thus consciously or unconsci
ously classify the members of their
iQocks. For the writer’s part, the
-ame tftlerant spirit which compels
him to disregard the religious rela
tions of Smith in the candidacy for
the presidency will prevent his tak
ing offense at his assignment to the
category of the unmoral or immoral,
ft is but to laugh.
While their loyalty to temperance
wad all other social reforms is stead
fast, these Democrats who
Smith know that something more is
involved in the contest than prohi
bition, and feel that prohibition it
self as an effectual bar to intemper
ance is not endangered. They do
not feel that the Volstead act is
sacred and should necessarily be like
the laws of the Meads and Persians,
'utterly unchangeable, even when it
is found to be largely ineffectual in
many populous sections of the coun
try in securing real temperance. Sub
stance and not adherence to any
word or law as a fetish is what these
men and women want, and what the
Tsountry needs. Accordingly, they
we not likely to permit Barton and
Cannon to drag them into the Re
publican party. They wonder why
this question was not raised against
the heavy-drinking comrade oi the
libertine McLean, Harding, in the
campaign of 1920. la the failure
to raise it then and in its oeing
laised now, they begin to see evi
dence of the ol't-made charge that
the national .anti-Saloon League is
an adjunct of the Republican party.
The country generally, too, is be
ginning to learn something of the
practical habits of Tom-tom Heflin,
chief speaker for the anti-Salono
League and the anti-Smith cause.
General discussion of the hypocracy
in the wide difference between the
profession and the practice of the
man is spreading. It would be strange
for it to be otherwise, in view of
his violent advocacy of prohibition
and his known failure to practice
what he preaches. Men and women
are beginning to suspect that the
support of the anti-Saloon League is
not to be obtained so much by the
observance cf the law and abstinence
from the use of intoxicants as by the
manifestation of a willingness to
perform its orders when it cracks the
whip.
That the thinking men among
those who were opposed to Smith's
nomination are beginning to see the
danger inherent in this effort to
classify as non-moral, or unmoral,
or inconsistent all those who support
Smith is apparent from a recent
editorial in Charity and Children.
We quote from it:
“We have many readers who are
just as dry as we are, but who are
nevertheless convinced Democrats
and believe profoundly that their
party will give the country a better
administration than will the Republi
cans. It is a dangerous thing to
assume that a man, in voting tor
Smith, is violating his conscience;
for aught we know, he might be
violating his conscience just as much
if he voted for Hoover, or if he
chose to stay at home and take no
part in deciding the control of the
government for the next four years.
We are certain that neither Dr.
Barton or Bishpo Cannon thinks that
either the Baptists or the Methodists
as such should take a position on,
say, the tariff; yet they are neces
sarily taking such a stand when they
organize to defeat the candidate of
one party, for that means helping
elect the candidate of the other par
ty. That is dragging the church
into politics, and there is no way
of getting around it.”
BE PATIENT
Democri ts who oppose M Smith
because of his prohibition views
should be } atient and find out wi n*
his views lcally are He has prom
ised to CAi iesg himself cleirl-r and
definitely in his acceptance speech,
and has dec ared that no or. else
has been g-ven authority to oeprer-s
views for him. A! knows how to
say n an nnmistakeable way what
he means, ftnd after the aeceyraocc
spee. h everybody will be able to
judge for hirr.self whether trie Dem
ocratic lai didate’s views rae antago
nistic tc temperance.
It is already clear that .Smith
does net desire the repeal of the
prohibition amendment, and has said
th*t the old-time bar rooms should
not be lestored. Even it ; =
said, is a non-drinker and has never
in any way had a dollar’s inti os, n
the whiskey business. Both thes.o
men are 111 doubtedly, concerned in
having laws effective in bringing
about temperance. That their views!
of what is effective should not co-!
ir. exactly with ours is not to
be wondered at. Their environment
is entirely different, and their views
have been formed from observation
of the working of the present laws
in their own state and adjoining
states. If honest northerners had
been acquainted with the situation
as it existed in the South in recon
struction days, they would doubtless
have viewed the re-construction pro
gram in quite a different light from
that in which they did view it and
the evils might have been earlier cor
rected. We of the South do not
know the northern environment and
are not capable of judging any more
what is actulaly from real interest
of temperance in the Middle Atlantic
States than the honest Kankees of
fifty years ago could conceive of
the actual conditions in the South
under the reconstruction acts. Let’s
hear Smith and then decide whether
he is in favor of debauching the
country. It is inconceivable that he
is, or that any other man who has
the sense Smith has or the concern
that he has shown for the welfare
of the people, could wish a reign
of intemperance. On the contrary,
we may believe, till authoritatively
told to the contrary, that the dif
ference in views as to the drink evil
is a difference as to conception of
what is the best way to secure a
decent and effective regard to tem
perance. Certainly, neither Smith
nor Raskob has ever made money of
the liquor business and is not con
cerned from that standpoint, as one
may well conceive the man who has
been in charge of enforemeent these
past years land will probably remain
in such control if Hoover is elected.
Andrew Mellon now owns more li
quor, probably, than both Smith and
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