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...heels of Wet President Butler's speech came a public statement by Dry Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho, followed last fortnight by a speech and last week by another speech and several press statements from Senator Borah...
...letter to a Mrs. Samuel Bens of Manhattan, Senator Borah said: ". . . It is clear that both political parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...
...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
Academic applause had greeted President Butler's speech on "The Lost Art of Thinking." Political cartoons-a far surer sign that something may have happened-greeted Senator Borah's salvos. He was pictured dragging a shuddering elephant to a water trough. He was shown pointing at a chained elephant with angry little eyes, and shouting: "From now on you're a camel...
When Senator William E. Borah made his widely quoted speech of last week, declaring that the enforcement of prohibition should be the main issue of the 1928 campaign, he little realized how far-reaching would be some of the effects of his statement. The idea of non-enforcement of the constitution affects different people in different degrees. Some write their congressman, some tell the family what Bernard McFadden said about it this morning, and some are merely reminded to get a new corkscrew next time they are down in the market district. But to the members of the Women...