The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
Interesting Addresses Mark Banquet Incidental to Convention Here - Reilly Raps Hobson Amendment as Unjust-WilsOn Scores ''Club' License Bill Enacted By Last Legislature.

zens and your neighbors.
 ssThere are 1ntoIerant people in
 every business and in every profes-
 sion. There are many intolerant peo-s 1 pie not engaged in the liquor trade
 and there are many intolerant people, who are very active in it.
 There are many men who attri-.
 bute wrong motives to men in. the sa-f
 loon business, but they have nothing.
 on many of the saloon keepers in: I tfat regard.
 Every man who does not agree
 with the views of sa1oonkeepers on 1 every proposition that may arise.f
 should not be put down as an enemy
 of the traffic and condemned as such
 without a hearing. Men who. have long been friends
 of the men engaged in the saloonE 1 business and who have publicly and l privately defended them and their business, when defense was most, needed, should mot be put hastily in l the ranks of their enemies because
 on some phase of the business. often: T a matter not directly concerning. it, they honestly differ. The ingrate in the liquor .busdn mess is just the same as l the migrate in any other sbusiness.. l Expenditures of friends is just as
 reprehensfbIe in one class as in an I other.
 tsYou men are organized in this
 state association as you are in local Associations for mutual benefit for the betterment of the calling and one I pretty good way to be successful in iI.both is not to be too ready to accept Eevery thing you hear about a friend as Atrue; not to be too eager to cast Aside the old friend. the friend of
 yesterday who stood by you when you 1 needed him, for the new fellows who Icones today and whose friendship has
 not been really tested
 Human nature is about the same the-world over and Sdecency, honesty
 always in the long run though some
 times they may Nbe temporarily side ltracked.
 :" Friends though scarce we some zl times ind
 Whose hearts are always true and
 s~ warm
 Who like the ivy round the tree.
 Cling closest in the raging storm
 Before expressing some personal
 views on the question of national pro hibition permit me to, give to you a most convincing statement made dur
 ing the course of the memorable de-. Il bate in the last session of Congress lon the Hobsoh natl onaI yprohi bition. amendment. It covers the field most,
 fully in a very concise way.Y 1eE0 1ATe 1101lIy1 read an extract of remarks by Oscar w Underwood.
 in the debate on the Hobson amend Il nnent.
 1 ..The adoption of the Hobson res I olution would enable a minority of the people to control the legislation ] of the country in the matter of pro- hibition. There are 19 states that;
 have a combined population less than the population of the state of New Il York. If the Hobson resolution pass
 ed it would deprive the people Of the
 state of New York of a fair or pro- portionate say in the determination 5l of ~4ne matter. Those 19 states would have s19 votes to one for New York,
 as was very clearly proven by Con gressman Oglesby during the debate lon the Hobson amendment.
 Prohibition without a strong pub ) lie. sentiment behind it is not only a
 failure but a positive injury to the : community.
 } The Hobson amendment Or any ] one of the kind would be9the worst i fafce thatswas ever enacted under the title of national legislation. Under g that plan, which was to prevent the 2 manufacture for sale of intoxicants 3 any one could set up a private still I and make all the liquor he wanted for ?, his own use or the use of his friends, : because he would give the liquor : away and not violate the letter or the Sp1T1L OI the law. IT the 1O bSOn plan IsShou1d become a law there would be
 of course no tax on liquor and,s free e from tax, liquor could be made so I cheap that hotel Keepers and restaur- r ant keepers could have their private g stills and give~tIle liquor away with meals as an advertisement. Does any
 prohibition advocate contend that
 such a. condition would make for tenn : perance2
 We cannot make men good by law. but such a law this would help n make them bad. The hearts of men ]; cannot be reached by law or. any : economic sophistry. The moral sense - and obligation must control e This. matter of the sale of liquor 2 is one that the states and the subdi : visions thereof must control. It is a
 local question pure and simple. The t principle involved is that of home d rule. This proposition is on a par t with the plan Jof representation in the y Connecticut legislature and no un-
 fairer plan was ever evolved in the : bigoted brain of rabid partisan. The d plan which gives to the town with q I voters the same representation in the e lower house the town with 50.000 s In the decision of this matter accord 0 ing to the Hobson plan the state o1 I Nevada or Rhode Island would haveas e much say as the great states of New t York and Pennsylvania If ever the S QueSIiOh IS to fDe SeLLleO Tn a HaI1ona e sense it must be by 9 direct vote O, 0 people.
 It .If prohibition is ever forced on the o country by minority of the people Q voting states the law will be eff e fective. because it does not represen " the will or the sentiment of the ma. n jority of the people. Have you any n idea how many United States mar . sha1s it would require to enforce the ,- law in any of the great cities of the 'tI country with the sentiment agains E such a law?
 - trI believe with Congressman Mad g den of Chicago that the people of any r community are better able to decide any question. for their government