The Monte Vista journal., 1916-10-14
Keating's Address

Ml. SHdlrman, Lau'e ana Gentle
men: l wish to thank you for COM
ing out tonight. l think it is very
severe test of your hospitality that
you would brave so Indictment
night in order to hear political
speech. l want you to know that l
deeply appreciate your presence
here.
Your chairman has been good
enough to refer to the fact that the
federal child labor bill bears my
name. | am not insensible to the
honor conferred on a member of
Congress by having an opportunity
to become the legislative author of
measure thGt affects the future of
hundreds of thousands of children,
but | want this audience to know
that the lions share of the credit for
passing the bill belongs to the great
man in the White House.
We had a rather interesting fight
over the child labor bill. l intro
duccd it en- the opening day of the
present Congress, and Immediately
encountered a well-organiZCd, and
apparently wcll-financed lobby main
tanned by the National Association of
Manufacturers, and the cotton mill
interests of certain southern states.
The members of this lobby were
toasting each other ct the local ho-
tells, when President Wilson return
ed from his vacation, discovered
what had been done; went up to the
capitol; called the Senator'S of his
party together, and said to them:
81 wish you would stay here until
the snow flies, if necessary, in order
to pass that bill" The lobby, of
course fought the bill at every step,
but he drove it out of Washington
and incidentally, he drove the bill
through the Senate, and on every
possible occasion, l bear testimony to
the part that he played, because if
he had done nothing else during the
four years that he has been in office;
if he had nothing else to his credit,
he would be entitled at the hands of
the fathers and the mothers of this
land, to a renewal of power.
Champ Clark of Missouri said to
crowd of Congressman one night:
II want to say to you, gentlemen,
that there are two things that are
coming in this country just as surely
as death and taxes, and one is Pro-
hibition and the other is Woman's
Suffrage
Now, those two issues have been
injected into this campaign, and |
want to briefly state the position of
the Democratic party on each.
stand here as the representative of
the Democratic candidates on the
state ticket, from Judge Gunter
down. to say to this audience just
like we have said to every audience
in the state of Colorado; that if the
Democratic party is placed in power
next November, the laws growing out
of the adoption of the Prohibition
amendment will be enforced without
fear or favor, and such additional
laws will be enacted by a Democratic
legislature as may be necessary in
order to enforce the amendment in
letter and in spirit.
On behalf of the Congressional
candidates of the Democratic party,
| want to say to this audience that
next November prohibition will como
before the House, and that every
Democratic representative from the
state of Colorado, whether reelected
in November or not will vote for
national prohibition in December
A great many gentlemen are going
up and down the state Just now
claiming credit for the fact that Colo
RADIO is dry. | don't mind saying to
you, especially in view of the fact
that the majority of this audience
is made up of men-1 don't mind
saving to you that the good women
of Colorado made Colorado dry.
have lived in the state of Colorado
| for thirty-six years-for almost
| quarter Of century, l have been ia
miliar with It's political affairs, and