The sun., 1919-04-23

Meanwhile the country was wholly UNI
| moved by matters we thought II was
wild about. We didn't know what the
country was thinking until we went
| home to see Most of the men at the
Peace Conference don't go home TO see
and don't know what the world really
| wants so there has been no real oppor-
| tunity for discussion.
For example to-day Italy Is re-
4 ported as wavering as to whether she
will go back to the old Triple Alliance or
Join England and France England and
France made bargain with her. II
Italy had not Joined them because OF the
bargain that was made there is no ques-
ton that the frontiers OF France would
have been opened to the Austrian and
German armies and France would have
been doomed. Italy now demands
Firme. This mornings dispatches say
that IL she doesn't get Ffume she will
quit, with chaos resulting II she does
get Flume, America quits That brings
mo back to what ! said before.
while Fiume rises to the importa nee
OF the five continents and seven seas II
Paris, the public doesn't care a rap
about It except TO say. Damn Fiume I;
pitch UP a penny and decide it
buppOSt, lDtptW CnuChicu,
Will be accused of irreverence, but I
can offer in reply the fact that my life
has been prolonged by my ability to
laugh at anything"
His View of Prohibition.
The conversation came to prohibition.
which again set tho Depew memory
working
"Fifty-eight years ago. when ! first
went to Albany as a member OF the
Legislature" he said, there were no
temperance societies and a man who
didn't drink was regarded as a fanatic
without political future. The bar was
always near the hotel entrance. and II
you didn't 90 in voluntarily you were
dragged In. l saw many men go to
the devil on account Of alcohol. but
fortunately / had a strong head. How
ever, 1 made up my mind that II I
was going to retain my health 1 should
have 10 make a compromise. Since
then I have never touched whiskey or
other hard liquor except as a medi-
cine. I tested the wines and found that
the one agreeing with me was cham
payne. ] explained TO the boys that l
had decided to drink nothing except
champagne. but unfortunately few
would order 1t, so for twenty years l
was practically a temperance man my
self. Then after prosperity came
made 1t a practice to drink a pint of
champagne each evening after dinner,
and at no other time. 1t agreed with
me and 1 with 1t In the last two
years. though. 1 have let up on it, for 1t
caused a little indigestion"
But remember when It was SO
bottle and now it's around s14 or S16,"
Mr.. Depew sighed.
prohibition" he went on. "is now
what Mr.. Cleveland would have called "A
condition and not theory. The danger
1t brings is that of reaction against
prohibition carried too far. You simply
cannot treat beer and light wines as you
do whiskey They are not the same
thing and do not have the same effect.
However. revolt against the prohibition
amendment cannot be strong enough to
effect Its repeal for the vote Of thirteen
States with combined population less
than that of New York city can keep 1t
in. I understand that prohibition works
we'll in Kansas, but In the dry States
I have visited the conversation was all
about how to get around the law and
which OF the many recipes for homo
manufa cture was the best"
At s. Mr.. Depew is not ION Diet
but is following the habit OF many years
in his eating. For breakfast he has an
thin slice OF white bread or half corn
muffin and one cup OF coffee. two-thirds
of which is boiled milk. His luncheon
fare is a vegetable, a small piece OF
meat or fowl ono beef and bread. His
dinner, served at o'clock, has several
and is his hearty meal. He gave
up beef thirty years ago on the advice OF
an English physician, who told him 1t
might cause rheumatism.
In the course of a memorable hour
with Mr.. Depew he also talked of Lincoln
and the stories that Lincoln told him
Of his pride in having known as friends
all the Presidents since Lincoln up TO
he present; OF the days when s7,0oo,OoO
was considered a ruinous amount for n
New York State budget; OF his old
friend Andrew Carnegie. and OF how he
Mr.. Depew, stopped smoking when he
was a young lawyer. But something
must be left for those birthday dinners
which the Montauk and Lotos clubs are
preparing to give in honor of their
young protege.