Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-07
CONG. MANN IS
SCORED By ANTI
SALOON ORATORS
Superintendent Baker Declares
His Presidential Bee Cant Live
in Alcohol.
CALLS HIM CANDIDATE
OF BREWERY INTERESTS

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Atlantic City, July Gin a review
of the work of the National Anti-Sa
loon League before tho annual con
VCntion of the organization here to-
night DR.. p. A. Baker, national super
intendent, attacked Representatives
Mann and Underwood for the stand
tional prohibition, at the last session
Of Congress-.
He charged that Mr.. Underwood
had made "a strained effort to de
ceive By misrepresentation and to fur
nish material for the liquor rro1agGr
da," and said the 'liquor traffickers
are now circulating his speech by the
million copies
Scores Mann.
OF the minority house leader, Dr.
Baker said:
mir. Mann, the alleged author Of
the law against the white slave tratnc
and Mr.. Mann, the sponsor for the IL
Quor traffic, become the Doctor ,Ickyll
and Mr.. Hyde of ihc United States
Congress. St 8 Tho liquor inter-
ests are already trying to reimburse
Mr. Mann for his activity in their be-
half by backing his candidacy for the
presidency"
DR.. Baker began by referring to
what he termed the effect on the part
of politicians to keep the liquor ques-
ton from becoming an issue at the
next presidential election and said:
"Their reason is that if this qnes-
ton once gets into the campaign it
will absorb everything and nothing
else will receive consideration. This
is but confessng tha: this issue is
paramount II the thought Of the peO-
pie.
"The way; however, to keep this
question from being an issue, and the
all-absorbing isue in the next Con-
gressional and Presidential campaign
is for the political leaders Of both
parties to get busy and see to it that
the question is submitted to the peo-
pie by the next Congress before the
political conventions are called. This
is an easy, practical method Of keep
ing it out of party conventions. and a
method that will find favor with all
public men who are not unduly i'll
hUelced by the drink trawc. We are
not asking any political party or can
didate to declare for National Prohi.
bition. We do ask that the question
be referred to the states for their ap-
prOval or disapproVal,
Of Less Importance.
"To deny it on the ground that it
is question for the states 10 settle
locally is to assign it to a position or
less importance than is now accorded
to The cattIe-tick, the boil weeVil
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 majority Of eight, exclusive of
pairs, the first time it got 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 we'll try to stop the
mouth of Vesuvius with a wisp Of
straw or turn back Niagara with a
child's hand. as to stay the progress
Of this mighty movement. .M
Historic Date.
December twenty-second, 1914, will
always stand as historic date in the
calendar of the nations life. 1t was
the day for the consideration of the
Hobson-Sheppard Joint Resolution on
the question Of National Prohibition
for the two hours debate as to wheth-
er or not the rule granted by the com
mittee would be accepted by the
House. The two hours debate was
utilized more for the discussion of
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