The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-23

| liquor traffic. lie portrayed what he de-
scrlbcd as the devastating effect of liquor
uu the brain 4 habit forming drug whose
shackled victims he said to-day number
| : ,0OO. 900 people.
"Biight on the INFORM"
/ 1T blights the lives OF people before
! they. are born" shouted Mr.. Hobson.
starting at 20, young man as a total
abstain Will live TO be 81 as a moderate
drinker he will die at 81. Do not talk
| to me about temperance when ii will cut
| liia years out OF the life OF the average
man, though he never gets drunk In his
/ life. 1t will cause the heavy drinker TO
die at 30 cutting 20 years out Of his lie.
ITO be simply "A moderate drinker to
drink bur once a day beer or wine, will
quadruple In the family the chance OF
mishap for the mother will increase yearly
by 100 per cent. the number OF children
that VIM die in the first ear Of Infancy,
and the children OF drinking parents die off
! at the rate OF from four to five times as
many as those of abstaining parents in
the ages where they ought to be pro-
! tected
Alcohol actually kills 200 900 American
children every year. This resolution places
squarely before Congress the greatest
question ana the most difficult problem
! that has confronted Congress and the
American people since slavery This ~
the greatest question in the life history
more than all other questions combined
/ the perpetuity OF any civilization.
To-day fourteen severe! On States are
statewide dry and five more are expected
! TO become statewide dry in 1918. To-day
90 per cent. of all the people of the United
States live under prohibition law enacted
by their own majority votes. or all the
area of continental United States rs per
| cent now Is dry territory.
mo one need talk about minority OF
| the people trying 10 dictate to a majority
| A majority OF the people OF the United
states are dry to-day. This majority on
the whole represents though not eNclu-
| slVely the conscience, the religion, moral
! uplift forces Of the whole nation"
Representative Underwood discussed the
question from an economic standpoint. lle
| sad prohibition would cost the American
people total OF S325000,oo0 year IN
the way OF lost revenue.
! IF there was anything to be- gained by
sacrificing all this revenue il would be
one question said Nj. Underwood ITO
sacrifice all OF II FOR 4 shadow is another
| question
MIR Underwood pointed out that lust as
| much liquor was consumed In dry Georgia
as IN wet Alabama.
! "Bootlegglng they say, Is the greatest
evil of the liquor traffic. declared Ny,
/ Underwood In prohibition Georgia
| there were 500 cases OF bookkeeping last
/
cases. Prohibition does no; prohibit"
"lf this resolution should become the
law OF tho land liquor would he made
free, easily manufactured IN The home and
! probably resul; I'm more abuses and misery
/ than under present conditions" sad Mr.
| Mann, the Republican leader,
you would take from tho STATE the
| penal power to make and enforce laws.
! You cannot have Federal and state con-
troll at the same time There Is nothing
, IN this measure that prohibits the manu-
/ facture OF liquor The way 70 restrict tho
sale OF alcohol is through tho local au-
rhoritles, not by deperdlns on central
| government far removed from many sec
| lions OF the country"
| Speaking FOR prohibit on, Representative
| Campbell declared the menace OF the evil
| sought 10 be corrected was generally
recognized lie referred 10 u speech made
by Emperor William to his troops IN 1907
in which he adlured them to avoid the
use OF intoxicating liquors lie also re-
| called that at the beginning of the pres
ent war the Car of Russia issued n ulSns
| prohibiting traffic in alcoholic liquors He
said that most Of the poverty. paupcr'sn,
IAnsanlty, divorces ana murders were trace
able 10 tho use of alcoholic ~tlmulants.
Representative Helm of Alabama spoke
In opposition, He declared himself 10 be
! an advocate of temperance. but asserted
| that Ill regulation of the traffic should
be entrusted TO tho States Mr.. Hcflin
| brought down the house as he told OF his
missionary work In the temperance ncld.
! II helped To down whiskcy IN many
counties OF Alabama 80 shouted Mr.. Helm
as gales of laughter swept the chamber.
| Helm refused 10 see anything funny about
hiv siairrnrH, aud glarcd Al those VINO dld
Representative Rartholdt of Missouri. "A
German American. implacable foe OF pro-
hihition and defender OF the "decent sn-
' loon,' denied that poverty. murders and