The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-27
MEN AvOW
p u o s s TO
FIGHT PROHIBS
Will Not Give UP Without a
Many of T i r
Leaders Speak On This
Question.
SOUND ATTITUDE IN
THEIR SPEECHES

citation, now IN session here. Many of
the men most prominently connected
with the movement sounded this atti.
tude in their speeches here today.
Always Opposed to Laws
Morris 4. Westheimer, of C%incinatti,
Ohio, president of the National Whole.
sale Liquor Dealers association of
America, said:
"Ne have for years through our ma.
tional and state organizations fought a
gallant fight opposing the enforcement
of laws which are as clearly unconsti.
tutional as they are unjust and oppres.
sive.
Let us earnestly continue our eff.
forts through the courts and through
the education of the people to secure
the repeal or proper amendment of
unjust laws. 1t is difficult to peaceful.
ly accept what We consider to be un.
fair, unjust and especially ~unconstitu.
tional laws, and yet, as a matter of pol.
icy and as a means Of securing per.
manently better conditions it seems
clear that our best efforts should BE-
employed in aiding in the nomination
and election Of a better class of legis.
lators.
I'VE should exhaust every fair means
Mt command to secure the election of
broad'minded, able men, who would not
he swayed by ~emotionalism and fana
ticism-mon of experience, men free
from clerical denomination, men pledged
to work for the enactment of honest
laws, men opposed to confiscation with.
out compensation, liberal minded, edu.
Gated men, who will nave the moral
courage fearlessly to advocate and the
ability and standing to secure rational
legislation.
Prohibition.
prohibition is on trial TODAY al the
bar Of public opinion. The jury of your
c~ountryrnen is welding the evidence, |
and for the first time in our expert.
ence the jury is hearing the evidence
on both sides; our arguments, our state
ments of facts; our claims and pro
testations have at last found willing lis.
%teners; we are proving our case; we
have shown by official statistics that
prohibition does not prohibit; we have
shown the increase of lawlessness in
dry territory, and the jury is pre-.
pared to give US time to prove conclu.
sively that "license end regulation"
make for temperance.
"Some would devote our energies and
our finances 10 n legal bureau; some
urge a concentration against our com.
mon enemy-the Anti.Saloon League.
Because of these diversities we waste
much strength in struggles an.ong our
selves by mutual concession we should
harmonic and act together. This would
be compromising, but it would be com
promise among friends.
"We are enlisted for the war"
High Class Men"
W. j. Friday, of Pittsburg, Pa, chair.
man western branch Wholesale Deal
er's association, of Pennsylvania, said;
considering the state as a whole,
the liquor business is probably better
conducted, and a higher class of men en-
gagged in it, than any other state in the
union. II is rare TO hear any com
plants of a licensed place being dis
orderly. II is also rare for any licens
place 10 be accused of selling TO
minors, habitual ~drunkards, or on Sun.
day. II has been stated that 1t is as
difficult to secure a drink In n licensed
place in Pennsylvania on Sunday, or
on election Jays, as it is for the pro.
rich man Of the bible to get 10
heaven.
I'm the state OF Pennsylvania we
have had q strong agitation from the
Anti-saloon league and kindred orga. {
nizations, during the past six years, for ]
the enactment Of a specific local option |
law. II is well understood throughout
tho state that the object of urging a 9
local option law in the state is to lay I
the foundation TO later secure a county
option bin and finally statewide prohi. I
bition. OF course, the character Of Ii. u
laws that we have in the state, b
and the kind Of places that are con. a
iucted under the lash of its provisions, p
nave assisted in preventing the attempts ?
the anti-saloon league in that direc. q
Ion socalled temperance agitators pre-
Ter disorderly to orderly liquor places. L
Always q Prominent Question a
T. NJ. Gilmore, president of the Ma. /,