The Glenwood post., 1916-01-22
GOVERNOR SuLzER
WOULD TAX BOOZE
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Mexico. So you see 1 am doing my
share of the work in my own way, as
you are doing yogr share of the work
in your own way. l know I am accom-
plishing some good, and that is all the
reward I want. (Applause).
"My purpose this afternoon is to say
something practicable-and that is al
ways difficult thing to do. The
trouble with most of the advocates Of
Prohibition is that they travel in a
circle. That is fact, is it not? You
know, and l know, that we cannot sue
ceed going around in circle. We
never get anywhere. Those who see
clearly say the Prohibition party has
been travelling in circle for forty
years, and if it does not change its
methods, it will continue to travel IN
a circle for the next forty years. 1t is
matter of knowledge that if one IS
lost in the wilderness he will wander
about in circle, never finding his way
out until he departs from his beaten
path and strikes out in a new direction.
The fault many find with the Prohibi-
tion party Is that it is like man lost
in the wi !trness- going around in u
circle. If irat is tue we must st:ikc
out in new direction if we want to
get out of the wilderness.
"You and / are Prohibitiorists. We
believe in the cause. So far so good.
But they say / am something more than
a Prohibitionist-tha I am politician
"a practical politician. If that is so,
1 have no apology to make. 1t was
born in me. 1 came by it naturally.
Once a politician, always a politician.
l will be politician until 1 am dead.
Then the historians-if they do me
justice-will say that 1 was states
man. (Applause).
$50, being that kind of Prohibi-
zionist, it comes naturally for me to
say | want to win. To that end, l be
lieve in following the lines of least re-
sistance. You know the only way to
win is to get votes. You will never be
respected, and will always be ridi-
culed, until you command votes. When
you poll the votes, the politicians will
sit up and take notice. They will then
come to you with their hats in their
hands and ask: what do you want?'
(Applause).
''The question is: How can we
win? How can we get the votes? How
can we get out of the wilderness? Mr..
Harger has just told You that Mr.. Hob
son declared last year that if the Dem
ocratic party does not put prohibition
plank in its platform next year, he will
leave the Democratic party. Let us
hope that it is true. l served in con.
gress with Mr.. Hobson. He and ] are
personal friends. But ! hold in my
hand statement made by Mr.. Hobsoa
in yesterdays New York Tribune. This
uecldIallOH seems 10 coHtTdulct tHe
statement of Mr.. Harger. 'The qucs.
tion,' says Mr.. Hobson, in the Tribune,
is going to be asked with considerable
frequency, is Prohibition to organize
politically? In my opinion, no. Our
fight is to be an omni-partisan fight.
1t is based on patriotism and not on
party There is where Mr.. Hobson
stands. Nothing in that about leaving
the Democratic party. In this matter l
differ with Mr.. Hobson. 1 want to
make Prohibition political issue-the
political issue-not some time in the
future-but now. That is the way to
win. tApplausel.
"They say | know, through and
through most of the Democratic and
Republican politicians. That is true.
The reason, it is said, ! am not liked
as much as one would wish to be liked,
is because ! know too much about
them--and the man who knows the
truth is always the man who is hated
and feared-but secretly respected.
(Applausel. Let me tell YOU that very
few Democrats, and precious few Re-.
publicans, are going to leave their par
ties next year because their parties fail
to adopt prohibition plank. These
men will never leave the old parties
until we become thorouuhly Dolitical-
and show them the way to victory.
That's politics until we put poll
tics as well as patriotism into Prohibi-
ton we can never achieve success.
"Now, few words about local op.
tion as remedy for the evils of intcm-
perance. There is not man in this
room, and there is not Prohibitionist
in the country, who does not know that