CORRUPTION IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19158, 15 November 1927, Page 9

CORRUPTION IN U.S.

SENATOR BORAH'S STRIKING APPEAL, i (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) . NEW YORK, November 13. Senator \V. E. Borah, addressing the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, said the issue in which the people of the United States were interested above all others was the 18th Amendment. He added: ''Everybody except the deaf and dumb and the candidates for public office will be discussing it. The people of the United States, under proper leadership, will enforce any law which they are unwilling to repeal, or repeal any law they are unwilling to enforce. ''Let us not play this game below tha intelligence, courage, and character of the voters! Mere political expediency, in the clear sunlight of this issue, is both discreditable and futile. We know that the spirit of lawlessness has come to be the most stupendous problem in our national life. . "We know from the decisions of the Supreme Court that we are passing through a period in which corruption has reached the very doors of White House, and dominated Cabinets and robbed the people of their inheritance." The speaker concluded with an appeal to candidates to announce their position regarding the 18th Amendment, and added that women alone could bring political parties to support the amendment.