The Washington herald., 1918-09-20
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y EtChAh6 " NhC SONNAH
ment through the agency of their
political machine and deceiving the
people into the belief that the Re-
publican effort was a patriotic ef-
fort to govern instead of selfish ef-
fort to accomplish the selfish and
greedy ends OF these special inter
ests. We have shown how Senator
Penrose, the leader of the Republi-
can party, is the mere conduit
through which these great interests
have operated all these years, for
the real powers behind the Penrose
machine in Pennsylvania have been
the triumviate Of interests repre-
sented by individuals well known in
Pennsylvania who have Joined to-
! gether to support him and instruct
! him as to how the State should be
operated, not in the public interests
but in their interests. The powers
behind Senator Penrose have been
the protected tariff interests. the
railroad interests and the organized
liquor traffic. Those three have
stood behind him and have had
Pennsylvania in their grip these
many years and the only earthly
excuse that I have for being in
State politics is to tell the people
that that is true and fight against
it to my dying day.
Liquor Controls Politics.
| Now. thank God, the power Of two
OF those interests has been broken
and the power OF the third will soon
be destroyed. In these days OF war,
when the Government requires an
unusual money support, systems of
taxation have been invoked which
have relegated to the discard the
protective tariff proposition and the
power OF these great protected in
terests in Pennsylvania must speed
lily fade away before the new prin-
ciples Of government which will
never protect them again in the
future. And the exigencies OF war
and the necessity OF rallying to the
support of the Government every
element of the population have also,
thank God. freed us from the thral-
dom Of the railroad interests of
Pennsylvania. Ask Altoona how the
men feel about it now! They are
free for the first time since they
have worked in the railroad shops
and in offices and upon the trains.
Now, my friends, shall we. when the
Government at Washington has
broken off the shackles of our peo-
pie and freed us from this domina-
tion Of the protected tariff inter
ests and the railroad interests in
Pennsylvania. shall we allow our
party to be sold out and become the
willing tool of the last remnant Of
the third, the dying liquor trafic?
Free Institutions Menaced.
That is the big question. Why,
gentlemen. we know what it means.
| Mr.. Berry talks about the liquor
| question upon its constitutional side
and upon its moral side forcefully
and we'll; but what concerns me now,
particularly. is the political side Of
| this liquor question in Pennsylvania
and the nation. I say that 1t has
| been a menace to our free institu-
tions from a political standpoint I
have many friends who are in the
J liquor business and I am not talking
about individuals. I know many men
engaged in the business. retail
wholesale and otherwise. of high
| Chara cter, undoubted patriotism, and
true Americanism, who are as good
/ Democrats as we are. 1t is not about
them that I speak but about the big
men who control the destinies of the
| business as a whole in America; it
| is them that ! indict The steps TO
| which they have gone to secretly
control government by the secret
ownership and control of political
! organization has been almost beyond
! belief The extent to which they
I have gone to befoul public opinion,
! almost its very sources, in the news
| papers of the country secretly has
| been almost beyond comprehension
! by the American citizens. Let me
| refresh your memory. I will not go
! back to 1910 any more That is n
page written upon the history OF
! Pennsylvania that all men now can
read Alright. Mr.. BOnniwell takes ME
/ to task because I refused TO follow
Berry in that campaign and support
| ed Grim. l admit it: and l have
/ privately and publicly apologized to
Mr.. Berry and the Democracy many
! times, since. You know that story:
| and again in 1914 you know the story,
how Mr.. Mccormick and I went up
| and down this State trying to make
our people awake to the real condi-
tiOn by asserting that the powers
/ behind Senator Penrose were these
great interests have named. Sc
! Cretly trying to rob the people Of
their rights. because. gentlemen. if
the liquor traffic or any other busi-
: ness comes out in the open and says
/ We are for this man and against
the other" and contributes its money
and accounts for 1t under the law
I so that the public may know the
| truth. the public can take care of
itself. But it is the secret character
OF their attack upon the people that
IS to be condemned; and in that cam
paign. though they did not believe us,
| though We sought to have investiEa-
tions during the campaign. though
we stood up in open meeting and
told Pennsylvania the truth. it was
not until months and months after
| wards when the harm had been done
TO the people and they had been de-
! ceived that through the efforts of A
/ fearless district attorney in western
Pennsylvania, acting under The
| orders Of the Government at WASH
| ingtOn, the truth was disclosed
and the result was that over one
hundred brewers of this organized
liquor traffic were indicted by a fed
! eral grand jury for crime in that
election. Are we going to stop fight
ing that? Worse than that, in my
! Judgment, is this thing this year.
when. secretly. without allowing the
| people to know the truth, the organ
lied liquor traffic of the State.
through its old conduit, seeks to fool
the people into the belief that the
democratic party is fighting for per-
sonal liberty; when. as a matter or