The Washington herald., 1920-09-24
"DRY" CONGRESS TILTS
OVER WILEY RAP AT
PROHIBITION PARTY

Aaron 5. Watkins. Presidential
nominee of the National Prohibition
party, threatened to withdraw from
the race when he became involved
in a heated argument over remark 5
by DR.. Harvey w. Wiley. formerly
director of the government Pure
Food Bureau, and DR.. p. A Baker,
general. superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of America, at yes
terday's session of the Fifteenth In
tcrnational Congress Against Alco-
holism at the Fan American Build
ing.
DR.. Wiley declared that the result
Of 10000 liquor sales permits issued
by the prohibition commissioner had
tended to decrease the effect of pro-
hibition in the United States. DR..
Baker, following DR.. Wiley's re-
marks, spoke to the delegates and
attacked the National Prohibition
party with the result that Watkins
became involved in heated debate
from the floor and challenged Gov.
Cox or Senator Harding to come out
on dry platform and he would
withdraw from the race.
scouts Medicinal Use.
Every practicing physician" DR..
Wiley asserted. knows that alco-
hOl is never remedy. 1t is alb
sCIutcly of no use as such. 1t is
always narcotic. I am doing my
best to convince doctors of this,
and I have a suspicion that a largL
quantity of the intoxicants pre-
sCribcd goes down as beverage II.
the throats of men who need n
care for anything except the effect
of alcohol.
Physicians are allowed to pre-
scribe whisky in too large quaint
ties. If it is a remedy it shoui
be given homeopathically-in doses,
not pints. Who ever heard of pre-
sCribing quinine by the pound?"
During the afternoon DR.. Baker
delivered an address entitled p
Gtical Aspects of the Prohibition
Movement in America" in which
he advised against supporting the
Prohibition party.
Asserting that withdrawal of
dry votes from the regular parties
might cOnCeivably result in the
placing a wet President in the
White House" DR.. Baker declared
that the real leadership of the pro-
hibition fight had originated and
should remain in the churches AMI
not in the Prohibition party"
Watkins Takes Exceptions.
These assertions, following a re-
mark by DR.. Wiley expressing his
advocacy of the withdrawal of tre
Prohibition Presidential candida-s
resulted in Watkins jumping to his
feet amid an ovation, Offering his
withdrawal from the field IF any
of the candidates would take a real
Prohibition platform pledge"
There are six candidates in the
field" Watkins said, "and only one
has come out for the program we
are for. ] will Yacate the field IL
any one of the leading contenders
pledges himself to our program, but
l will not retire on the present
sentimental vapOrinGs. Therefore
your sentiments Oblige you to vote
for the only real prohibition candi-
date in the field"
He concluded by challenging Sem
ator Harding or Gov. Cox to posi-
lively state their position concern
ing prohibition.
Other actresses during the day.
were Wine as Cause for Alcohol
ISM" by DR.. p Analdi, director Of
the Hospital for the Insane, Flor
ence. Italy; The Non Alcoholic
Uses OF the Wine Grape" by DR..
Eudo Monti, of Turin. Italy; Beer
as a Cause of Alcoholism" by DIR.
\. Holitscher, of Karlsbad, Austria,
and Nine. Dazynska Golinska, of
Warsaw, Russia; Beer and Light