The Washington times., 1917-03-01
Romance of Getting a Drink
Will Invite City's Youth,
Says GaIIiVan.
SALOONS NO TEMPTATION"
But Search for Moonshine Will
Be an Adventure Worthy of
Robin Hood.

The National Capital as a town of
'bootIeggers and mountaineering
:erious characters inviting the roman
ic youth to make their acquaint-
Ince," was pictured in the House
asst night by Congressman James A.
sallivan, Democrat, of Massachusetts
N the only speech on the Sheppard
prohibition bill. Yielded only seven
minutes, Mr.. Gallivan, knowing the
House soon would vote the District
dry" spoke with philosophical hui
NOR, satire, and ELOQUENT earnest
ness.
According to Mr.. Gallivan, the new
leaders of the Democratic party are
Congressman Randall, California, pro-
hibitionist, and the Rev. Z. c. Din
widdie, of the Anti-Saloon League
Mr.. GaIIivan said he could not follow
the party under such leadership.
"Romanee of Getting Drink"
Addressing himself to the "ro
nance of getting a drink" after
Washington goes dry, Mr.. Gallivan
said that not twenty men who were
10 vote for the prohibition bill be
lieve in prohibition.
Interrupted by laughter from both
vets and "drys," and applauded
frequently by the opponents OF the
bill, Mr.. Gallivan- said in part:
THE most thrilling tales of adven-
ture today are to be found in the Of
hcial reports of the Commissioner of
internal Revenue, where are recorded
he hairbreadth escapes OF revenue
agents from moonshiners in the dry
states of the Southland. There you
will learn how these men riskod their
lives and buried their dead comrades
In the mountains of prohibition
Georgia, in Kentucky, in Tennessee,
and in the Everglades OF Florida, be-
cause their business is to force obEoN-
ious laws upon communities that do
not believe in it and have tine courage
to protect themselves from it's en-
torcement
Romantic Adventure.
''Moonshine can be made in a tea
kettle, in a closet, cellar, or soap box,
yes, in a prohibition Congressman's
office in Washington as quietly as 1t
u made in a cave or mountain cavity
In North Carolina And beer can be
brewed in the kitchen and from al
most anything that grows; the great
er the decay, the easier the fermenta-
ton.
at will be an adventure worthy the
romance of Robin Hood to go out in
search of moonshine or struggled
whisky and beer i'm Washingtn when
we have prohibition here; yes, and it
will call for an army bigger than that
recommended even by General Scott
In these days of the Nations peril to
round up the moonshiners, the boot
leggers, and the Congressional and
other patrons among the haunts of
the cave jewellers of the Nations Cap
itaL
Saloon No Temptation.
with prohibition here in the Dis
trict OF Columbia there will be adven-
ture, if not romance, in getting a
drink. That will be something-de-
hance of a law which we do not re-
spect There is now no more adven-
ture about stepping into a licensed
saloon and buying a highball or a
stein of beer than there is about 60
ing to the pOstoffice to buy postage
stamp or into a grocery store to buy
a pound of coffee. There is not a
thrill of romance to be found in max
ing the round of all the saloons in
town under the present arrangement.
There is no temptation about the Ii
censed saloon, and it has not one
tenth OF the appeal to the venture
some youth that the cabaret show has
or even the moving picture houses.
with prohibition all this will be
changed. There will be plenty of ad-
venture and even hazard about the
search for a drink. Blind tigers will
be places surrounded by romance to
make them sought after, however vile
they may be in reality. Moonshiners
and bootleggers will be mysterious
characters inviting the romantic
youth TO make their acquaintance.
DepIores New Leadership.
Here in Washington you will have
the same opportunities for romantic
adventure that they now have in the
mountains of prohibition Georgia and
North Carolina, where men make
moonshine and men buy moOnshine,
not because they like moonshine, but
because Uncle Sans revenue agents
are hunting for Illicit stills and chas-
ing bootleggers until every native is
ready to defend the sacred institu-
tions of home and expel the invader
from the soil. Georgia and the Caro-
Iinas are but types of their sister
restrial paradise called Dixie.
However, ! cannot congratulate
my party upon it's change of leader
ship, and ] very much doubt how long
il will be possible for me to stay with
that party when its policies and prin-
ciples are to be formulated by its new
leaders, Randall. Dinwiddle & Co.
must admire the gentleman from
California.
"OrganIzer of New Party
"In this hour of national alarm. with
a national crisis here in America,
with thousands crying for food and
clamoring for relief from this Con
gress, and with an international crisis
of such Importance that the Presi-
dent of the United States finds il
necessary to come before the Congress
twice in less than a month. at the
signal from the gentleman from Cali
foTnia all these questions of gigantic
Importance must be laid on the shelf,
and the Representatives of hundred
millions OF people are ordered to con-
slider a proposition to close certain
places OF business here in Washing
ton now licensed by law.
THE gentleman from California
has grown great since the poll was
taken az to the political line up of the
next Congress. / have noticed that
he has become an organizer OF a new
party. Evidently the Democratic
leaders who desire TO continue in the