The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-27
QUIGG LIKENS DRY
AIDS TO 40 THIEVES
VETS Ridicule Enforcement
Of Measure at Legisla-
tive Hearing.
ANDERSON GETS WATCH
Half Of 1 Per Cent. Liquor
Predicted by Prohibit
ton Forces.
ANDERSON GETS WATCH
Special Despatch 10 Tur Sex.

Special DespdfcA 10 TuE Sex.
ALBANY. Feb. 26.-Ali Bahia and his
forty thieves would have nothing on
the prohibition person and his forty
SPIES that the drys want to have en-
force the prohibition amendment, &C
cordins TO Lemuel Eli ouigg, chief
spokesman to-day for the vets at the
legislative hearing on enforcement meas
wes
Mr.. ouigg cracked many Jokes at the
expense OF this prohibition person." as
he termed the enforcement commits
.ioner II Is proposed TO create. with
forty confidential agents to help enforce
the law. and he declared the enforce
ment bill Is a dishonest, outrageous
monstrosity."
Wayne B. Wheeler OF washingtoa,
general counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League, in his argument for adoption OF
a practical measure to enforce the
amendment that will not be out of har-
mony with Federal legislation which is
certain to be enacted declared Mr..
ouigs's illusions TO the prohibition
person and other statements repre-
.ented a "conglomeration Of hetero-
geneous Inconsistencies
Brewers Not Represented.
Brewers were not represented at the
hearing but brewery workers and watt
ers were. James r. Holland, president
Of the New York State Federation of
Labor, asserted that the measure under
discussion is narrow minded and the re-
suit OF intolerance OF those who have
constituted themselves the moral barom-
eter OF the state"
Edward l. Hanna of the Central Fed
rated Union OF New York John Sulli-
van OF the Brewery Workers of the
United States and Canada and Emanuel
Koveleski of the Bartenders Union and
fle Trades Union Liberty League also
spoke in opposition and numerous ap-
pearances OF labor leaders were noted.
Large buttons with a reproduction OF
TIE Statue of Liberty and the inscrip-
ton We Want Beer" Wed with glaring
white ribbons declaring enforce prohi-
otion and uphold the Constitution of
the United States
State Superintendent William II. An
derson. opening the debate for the drys,
said he regretted they did not have
hslf an hour additional TO allot TO Mr..
Quigg The more he talks the better
I is for the BILL" he said.
pr. Joseph Clark. State Sunday School
Superintendent DR.. Ella A. Boole, presi-
cent OF the State w. C. T. u, and DR.
l. E Ford of johnson City were other
dry speakers. DR.. Ford declared 1.-The
more you kick Anderson the higher we
viii raise him. God bless him. He Is
doing noble work" After the hearing
Mr.. Anderson said II had been quite a
happy day for him. In addition to this
compliment the members Of the Anti
Saloon League staff presented 10 him a
Ane open faced watch.
Anderson's Report Quoted.
Mr. Qulgg frankly said that hts pur-
pose was to make the proposed law ap-
pear as ridiculous as possible, and he
proceeded to do so according TO his In
depreciation of its terms. In creating a
rew department under the section pro-
viins tor licenses. he asserted, II per-
~''rates las rank a thing as / have
oyer seen in a bill" He quoted from
Nj .Anderson's annual report, which
-ai II is the duty OF the Anti-Saloon
League to arouse the people 10 bring
'resSure 10 bear upon their legislators,
y don't think any organization ought
20 exist for that, whether II he Anti
saloon League. l. w. w. or Bolsheviki,"
VI eU!EG said.
They get drunk on the wine Of their
nm fanat!cism, and would make a shut
..oocS Of the great principles of the
Republican and Democratic parties"
The speaker created considerable
'7uShtcr IN giving his version OF the pro-
edlre necessary to get liquor under the
'erns Of the bill. He said he once cured
a horse, which had the collie. by giving
Il drink of whiskey, but that X he
himself needed II in a similar case he
night be dead before liquor could reach
I'm. He has never been i'll, he de-
Jared. as he knocked the wooden top
the desk at his side. so he did not
nov IN what cases liquor is needed for
treatment. 1t is true. however, that
'onsumptives ami those afflicted with
other diseases are timid at having the
allure Of their maladies known and the
''i' would give TO the "forty spies OF
~" prohibition person" power TO pry into
ho'r affairs.
More CurtRtIments Due.
The fees In the bill provided for are
pc pdlu 10 county tredSuTeTS,
QnIgc declared, instead OF to the Com
miss pner He suggested that, inasmuch
~ the prohibition of dancing, smoking.
's' X and other pleasures will follow
tho wake OF the prohibition OF the
'Glor traffic. the Commissioner be desig-
HA'sa as the Commissioner of Pro-
htions. Mandates and Regulations"
~. w<rE toS4Ak corpaK co tbs
'1r"nost opponents OF prohibition in
'orEr-ss and President Taft, since the
amendment had been added to the Con-
Tuition, have taken the position that
hero Is only one thing for patriotic
americans TO do and that is TO sustain
Tho Constitution. The law should con.
tain a definition OF alcoholic liquor, Mr.
Wheeler said.
You may count upon IT," Mr.
Waeele- said. that Congress in tbs
aN il passes will not place the standard
higher than one half OF per cent. and
he State OF New York which has made
such a splendid start should pass q
statute not contrary TO the Federal Law
by a bill that will be IN harmony
with It."
The Anti-saloon League closed It,
convention with a discussion OF Law
H1'orcement, the speakers including Mr.
Wheeler and Robert G.. Davey OF New
OK, superintendent Of the State Law
Increment Department. Resolutions
We're adopted calling upon "all good
''tzens" to help get the passage OF the
~" enforcement bill. and expressing the
.'hse OF the convntion that the reason
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