The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-17

centage or alcohol constitutes lntoNlcat- ing liquor. 1t will remain a political is- sue, until it is settled and settled wisely and sanely.
 If Congress may now legisiate so that intoxicating liquors may be' defined to include nonintoxicating liquors, a future Congress may define liquor containing an other per cent of alcohol as nonintoxi- eating. In the face or the rising tide of | popular resentment, caused by the meth ods now being revealed, by which the extremists of the Anti-Saloon League se- cured ratification. the unrest, dissatisfac- tion and Indignation created by the harsh, radical and oppressive methods by W hich the amendment Is now being en- forced-a prohibition enforcement and iconstruction that turns the amendment from its legitimate object and imposes on the people an excessive and extra consti- tutional prohibition, it is folly to say that the prohibition enforcement bill is not an issue and ignore the widespread re- volt now sweepn gover the country. Even | the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League in Alabama has declared the con- struction of the meaning of alcoholic liquors intrusted to Congress makes it a political issue, and has appealed to the extremists in his forces to secure the withdrawal of one of the prohibition candidates for the Senate, or to meet in convention and unite in indorsing one of the two, so as to encompass the defeat of the candidates who does not wear | his label. It cannot be denied that no man in Alabama, who has been for local option, or who opposed national prohibit l tion, can seek public office without in- curing the bitter opposition of the lead CT of the Anti-Saloon League and these who do his bidding.
 1 If prohibition is a dead issue, why should any man seeking public office, who has had the courage to sincerely follow the teachings of democracy and of state rights, and who has not here tofore espoused the tenets of the Anti Saloon League, be boycotted by that or ganization?
 CONCURRENT POWER
 l Although the Volstead act does permit | the sale of liquors for medicinal per poses, that provision has been so con strued by the federal enforcing agents | as to mean that such right cannot be en- ljoyed in a state that has gone further lthan Congress in providing dryness. It lhas been construed to mean that if the state laws were more liberal than the federal laws, the federal laws prevail but if the state laws went further than Congress in providing radical prohibition the state laws superseded the federal flaws, Under this narrow construction the people of Alabama are denied the use of liuuors for medicinal purposes, thougf that right is accorded to the people oi Inearly all other states. Yet, even under the Volstead act, eminent physicians are being arrested and indicted for present. ing more liquor than the law allows, al though in their judgment such prescrlp tion was necessary to save human llte ! The wisdom of the learned physician must be subordinated to the judgment oi the layman who has no medical knowid- edge or experience. I believe that in the legislation which he accomplished with respect to oui Waterways and highways, Senator Bank lhead conferred benefit upon this state for which we should be always grateful and I pledge myself. if I am selected t6 Inn his unexpired terms in the Senate ,tt icarry forward to the best of my ability that great work in whicvh he was en gagged.
 | I believe that the backbone of this ma ton is it's farming class. They are th' only producers of wealth, and they stahe always for good government and Tor DO llitical liberty. I believe that the mos beneficial legislation for the farmer tha has been passed in a half century, is the establishment of great plant a Muscle Shoals, which, upon it's comple ltion in times of peace. will produce ar abundant supply of cheap fertilizers. lhave worked earnestly for the completion of this great project for many years. | I believe that the government ought t' lbe active in the establishment or market in foreign lands so that, no mate Ihow great the productively of our farm ers may be. their products can be ap sorbed. was one of the pioneers in th lleeislation, which was finally passed, es Itablishing the farm load banks
 believe that the accommodation o | inc differences which, from immemoria times. have existed between capita
 and labor lieS sthe deVeolpmeht ai' accordance the sharing Vt prolits Capital is dependent upon lapor a,'' Iahor upon capital, and the great pub 1io is assential to both. The interests of each of the three lie in the hap
 niness and wellbeing of the others, ant there can be no solution of this grea
 question that does not take into con I sideration the general demands ah' the fundamental necessities or eacn 0 inc three. We must. at all haZzaros
 maintain the high standard or Amer
 can labor. and this cannat be accomp lished unless we place proper restrlc | lions upon undesirable immigration
 That personal cooperation petWee'
 employer and employee which IS so es
 sential. cannot be secured until tn I
 tive bargaining through representa-
 lives of their own choosing IS Iuii' recognized by the employers. on tn
 other hand it has been truly said,
 complete sense of obligation to bar
 gains entered upon is fundamental t
 better relationship. As citizens or
 great free country we are each stock
 holders in the greatest associ bNon II
 the world, and we will not reach tn
 full measure of our opportunity, ou
 duty and our great privilege if we d' not. with tolephnce for those who dir fer with us, do what lies within us
 discarding selfish consideratio/s t
 make our country the strong free na
 tion- of which our fathers dreamed. Il
 which all men shall have the full op
 portunity to develop to the full limi
 of their powers and just deserts.
 I favor just and Liberal appropria
 tons to the American soldiers of tn
 World war. We owe them debt o
 gratitude we can never repay.
 THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
 The treaty of peace has been unde official consideration for eight months rf ha Stat ta