The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-03-13


this bill prohibiting sale of alcoholic
drinks in the District of Columbia en-
tirely in the hands of Congress when II
came up for passage this time, il
wasn't an easy task. no indeed 1t was
not. You read the history Of that move
ment and you Will remember how the
enemies stood not only for one day. but
for two days and tried TO defeat that
bill. and you will remember how the
second day was spent in hlibuster. and
1t just seemed that the prohibition
measure was defeated It was in the
hands OF an unfriendly committee and
1t was necessary for its friends to de-
mand on the floor of the House that
that committee be instructed to bring
/ that bill out at once, and they finally
/ brought 1t out. and then amendment
after amendment was presented until
ten long tedious roll calls were neces-
sary, taking As minutes for each roll
call before the enemies finally subsidized
and permitted that bin To pass with such
a splendid majority, Great applause)
Don't you think for one single mo-
ment that we are lighting an enemy that
is easily vanQuished- Don't you think
for one single moment that because we
have passed the statewide prohibition
bill that the liquor traffic is going to
sit back and sit down and say to us:
Now we have been defeated: you have
won in a fair square fight" Not bit
Of it. Not bit of it, We are going
to be compelled to meet 1T in the Con
stitutional convention in Indiana ia the
not far future when they expect that
we viii not be able to write our pro-
hibition measure in that Constitution
"Oh. my friends. that was not the
only victory! You remember when the
question came up as to the bone dry
bill by which liquor should not be
shipped by mail through the postofGces
into prohibition territory and it's adver-
Using matter should not be permitted
to go into prohibition states. when that
question came up it looked as though
It We're going TO be defeated. but some
Of our friends said. We viii tack 1t
on as rider to the appropriation bill
and maybe it will ride through to vic
tory and it did It rode through to
victory. and the president signed it. One
of the greatest Victories we have had
in this great movement. (Applause)
Then you remember the Porto Rican
bill. granting citizenship carried with
it a prohibition measure.
Now. when the question of prohibit
ton for Alaska came up we didn't even
have to spend any time on it: it went
through without even the Formally Of
a roll call. Why they gave prohibition
to Alaska without ever having a roll
call on it. Now I say that is moving
that is moving along IN these days.
Why. you look over here in the
70 ~ To- rfala
will find they have submitted prohibit
ton to the people of Missouri. Kansas
passed a bone dry bill that viii keep
all booze. everything. out of the state
Of Kansas Now is it any wonder that
the liquor traffic is feeling wonderfully
sore?
That would he enough but then
here we have old Indiana Indiana
Why they supposed they owned US. 1 am
surprised am surprised when I think
that Indiana was one of the states that
disgraced herself by standing solidly
against the Hobson resolution for pro
hibition resolution for prohibition only
two years ago Think of it, Think
of it. why they supposed that in In
diana they were perfectly safe. Why
did they do it? Well. you know. we
sun in dealing with the liquor traffic
except the right one. We have been
long time getting up to it, but now
we are here. You remember we had
free whiskey for a long time in Indiana.
Why, men sold It just the same as any
other commodity They said that alcohol
is the same as any other commodity
why. we believed it for long time
We had free whiskey for long time
Any man could sell it. Then we had
a license policy, adopted that. Any man
could ask for license and 1t would be
granted. Why. we had no regulation Of
the number of saloons. kind of saloons
quantity to be sold or anything of the
kind Then finally we came mp TO the
time when we passed that Nicholson
law. You remember that gave us the
to demonstrate against the
saloon or the saloonkeeper who applied
for license Men could apply every
month in the year, just as many as
pleased could apply. They kept US busy,
didn't they2 They kept US busy Why
the women walked through the mud and
slush hail and the snow and sieet
through the dust and the brolllng not
sun carving these remonstrances, and
the men worked shoulder to shoulder
with them to put out the saloons. and
we prevented many a saloon from OPEN
ing up in Indiana. Then finally we
passed an amendment to that law that
made it little easier-the Moore law
You remember it; we put a blanket re
monstrance over the township against
the whole number And with that law
We did splendid work We stamped out
the saloons in that way. Then there
came the time when Governor Haniy
was sitting in the governors chair at
INDIANAPOLIS You remember that he
called a special session of the legisla-
tire and gave us the county local op-
ton law. Then the women said: NOW
we have something that viii prevent
the alcohol trade; now we will fight the
saloon out of majority Of our coun-
ties and then we win demand a state
wide prohibition bill and they will not
dare to refuse us Then we all got to-
gether and we worked for it and voted
the saloons out of 70 of the % coun-
ties. A splendid majority, wasn't it
Voted them out of 70 of the % counties
in the state. Then when we went down
10 the legislature. did we get statewide /
No. We got our county
option law repealed and we got in its I
place township and city option, the one
that we call the infamous Proctor bill /