Evening star., 1915-01-16

violation OF the personal liberty OF the
residents OF the District, and declared
the Creator must have planned thae
man should use alcohol when ne made
grains rich in that stimulant He read
statistics which. he said. showed thas
crime. lunacy and other evils were
more prevalent In Kansas, a state wide
braska, where local option prevailed.
This drew vigorous reply from SEN
ator Bristow.
1T is to be regretted that any state
should have senator who would stand
on this floor and defend this hated
traffic" said the Kansas senator. In
my state OF Kansas there are young
women and young men who have grown
up without having seen saloon. II Is
disgrace to the nation that when
they come to visit their capital these
sources of pestilence to society should
be open to them to enter"
Stone Opposes Prohibition.
Senator Stone of Missouri. replying
to Senator Bristow and Senator Shep-
pard. said:
81 do not believe in prohibition as a
national policy or as an arbitrary
statewide policy. l would vote against
nation-w wide prohibition. AS did speak
and vote against an amendment to our
state constitution establishing state
wide prohibition. That constitutional
amendment was before the people OF
Missouri three or four years ago, and
approximately of ESQ., 900. Following my
convictions. l voted against ii, but /
did not impugn the motives or IN
tegrity of those who voted for it.
81 am sorry to find senators so in
considerate, narrow, fntolerant and
bigoted as to charge motives upon and
against their colleagues on this floor
that are discreditable to them solely
1,Ar f1,Ay An mi
l am unable to understand that tenn
permanent or mental construction.
II am not the advocate. champion or
friend of the saloon; but ! 40 -oene.s -
from every point of view, whether OF
sobriety or good order or good morals.
are attained through strict regula-
tory system than through absolute pro-
hibition. unless the attempt at prohibi-
tion is sanctioned and supported by 4
decided public sentiment.
Senator Sheppard asked II Senator
Stone had supported the Dill making
the Capitol building dry.
YES" replied Senator Stone, but the
Capitol of the United States is not u
hotel, and there should be no traffic OF
any kind in it,
Owen Supports Project.
In supporting prohibition Senator
owen of Oklahoma declared:
people of the United States should con-
slider the absolute destruction of the
liquor traffic, and in doing SO to deal
with 1t in a spirit of temperance and
of moderation. l should be perfectly
willing to agree to compensate ,I;, e,,,d ,noss s
destroyed. 1 think 1t is better to ad-
Just it upon such lines than to have the
struggle proceed in SO fierce fashion
and continued SO long by those who are
g. f,,1 ,f Ifc
Paying for the breweries. paying for
the liquor interest and buying 1t out.
would be better for the republic. Just
as 1t would have been better for this
nation If the people of the nation had
agreed to settle black slavery by paying
the price of the slaves and freeing them
on that basis. Civil war was too high
a price to pay. and the war which So
ciety wages on the liquor trafftc, and
the cost Of society In the administration
of justice. in Furnishing the crimes and
misdemeanors due to the liquor traffic
is greater than would be the cost or
Senator Williams of Mississippi an
nounced that he would support the
prohibition amendment, though he
would vote first to submit the ques-
tion to the people of the District
''I love toddy almost as well as
Daniel Webster or Henry Clay ever
did. 1 love one as well as George
Washington or John Marshall ever did.
love a glass Of wine as much as
Shakespeare or Goethe ever did. But
we must reason about everything with
| common sense. 1t never did me any
permanent good nor any material good
of any inherently valuable sort. and
make him feel a little bit better for a.
little while. There is nobody who
will dispute that"
Senator williams bore witness to tho
| fa of haf IN
Mississippi.
Got Drinks In "Dry" States.
Senator MARITIME of New Jersey. in q
speech against prohibition. caused the
senators to rock with laughter when
he described his own experiences in
Atlanta, Ga. and Charleston. S. e..
where. he said. prohibition WAS sup
posed to be in force. According to his
statements he found no difficulty what
ever in purchasing drink in either
place.
Addressing himself to some of the ad-
vocates Of prohibition in Washington.
the New Jersey senator said:
II was called on the telephone at my
home last night at 10 o'clock, the party
at the other end of the wire telling mo
that we must abolish the saloon. He
said the city was afiame with the sem
timent for the abolition of the saloon.
anu iSqdCStSo HiC " iucCt MIN ~ tHo
Metropolitan Club. where we might
talk about it over a glass. Innocently
/ asked him where the Metropolitan
Club was; and l asked him, too. il it
was perfectly proper place for an old
gentleman to go. He answered me,
oh. yes; very quiet and highly respect
able with peculiar emphasis on the
words highly respectable Think of IL,
Mr.. President! Here was a man want
ing to rid the community of the saloon,
but inviting and enticing an old man to
a highly respectable resort called
club, with a gilded bar. God save me
from such hypocrisy"