Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-07
MANN AND UNDERWOOD BAKED BY LEADER OF
 ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Dr.. P. A. Parker, National Super intendent of League; Says Both Leaders Fooled Their Constituents.

they took during the debate on nation al prohibition, at the last session Of Congress.
 He charged that MT Underwood had made "a strained effort to deceive by misrepresentation and to furnish ma terial for the liquor propaganda, !" and said the liquor tranickers are now circulating his speech by the million copies"
 Of the minority house leader, Dr. Baker said:
 MT Mann, the alleged author of the law against the white slave traffic, and Mir. Mann, the sponsor for the liquor traffic, become the Doctor Jeltyll and Mir. Hyde of the United States Congress. The liquor interests are already trying to reimburse Mir. Mann for his activity in their behalf by backing his candidacy for the pres idency."
 Dr. Baker began by referring to what he termed the effort on the part Of politicians to keep the liquor ques- tiCn from becoming an issue at the next presidential election, and said:
 Their reason is that if this question once gets into the campaign it will ab- sorb everything and nothing else will receive consideration This is but con fessing that this issue is paramount in the thoughts of the people.
 "The way however. to keep this question from being an issue, and the all-absorbing issue in the next Con gressional and presidential campaign is for the political leaders of both par ties to get busy and see to it that the question is submitted to the people by the next Congress before the political conventions are called This is an easy. practical method of keeping it out of party conventions, and a meth cd that win find favor with all public men who care not uuduly influenced by the drink traffic. We are not ask ing any political party or candidate to declare for National Prohibition. We do ask that the question be referred to the states for their approval or dis approval
 ITO deny 1t on the ground that 1t is a question for the states to settle To- cally is to assign it Co position of less importance than is now accorded to the cattle-uck, the boil weaviL tainted meat or the hook worm.
 "A movement which for a hundred years has rooted itself in the heart of the church and the conscience of the people, and which received a clear ma jority of eight, exclusive of pairs, the first time it got a hearing in the open forum of Congress, does not lie down and die at the behest of its enemies. To all such we wish to say you had as well try to stop the mouth of Ne- suvius with a wisp of straw, or turn back Niagara with a child's hand, as to stay the progress of this mighty movement.
 December 22, 1914 will always stand as a historic daps in the calen- dar of the nations life. It was the day for the consideration of the Hob son Sheppard joint resolution on the question of National prohibition-for the two-hours debate as to whether or not the rule granted by the com miuee would be accepted by the House. The two hours debate was utilized more for the discussion of prohibition and antiprohibiuon than as to whether or not the rule should prevail It was adopted, however, al- most unanimously, by a viva yoce vote as everyone knew it would be. Then came eight hours debate on the main Iissue-four hours allotted Co each side. l Congressman Hobson led for the pro hibition forces and Congressman ! Mann of Chicago for the liquor inter 1 osts. 1t was a great debate at times persuasive, earnest and eloquent, and again, rising to the fury of a tornado l it swept the hall like a hurricaie in , the forest The opposition brought | out what were supposed to be their heaviest guns early in the discussion. Judge Henry of Texas chairman Of | the Rules Committee; Mr. Underwood of Alabama, Democratic floor leader
 and Mir. Mann of Illinois, the RePab lican leader.
 MT Underwoods speech giving 1t 1 the best construction possible, was a strained effort to deceive by misrep- Iesentation and Co furnish material
 for the liquor propaganda. Mir Under
 wood must have been imposed upon
 in the statistics that were evidently
 given him by those whom he served
 They did not rise to the standard of being adroitly set forth Mir Under
 wood may know something about the taIiff and kindred governmental ques
 tions, but his Ignorance of the whole
 neld of temperance reform, as indieat
 ed by his speech, reveals the fact that
 someone has very successfully used
 him.
 "The best evidence of the utter un reliability of his utterances may be
 found in the fact that the liquor traf
 fickers are circulating his speech b,