The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21

case where either the state or national authorities have prosecuted man in such circumstances.
 The governor next asks if endorse the declaration made by representa- tive of the last legislature to the effect that he would prefer the sick should die rather than that a cure should be ef- tected by liquor prescription. Here again the governor avoids a discussion of the act itself but predicates his question on the supposed declaration of a straw man. only having existence in his imagination.
 The governor must have been de- ceived, as l don't believe any member of the legislature ever made any such a statement. If one did make such declaration, what has that to do with the point at issue between Governor O'Neal and me as to retaining the Vol stead prohibition act on the federal statutes?
 T am not going to encounter straw man created by the governor for polit ical purposes His imagination is too fertile He might construct too many and too extreme characters If the gov crnor will ask me questions material to the issue involved in this discussion, l will answer them.
 WHAT PER CENT?
 'frhe governor next asks whether believe every beverage containing more than F of 1 per cent of alcohol is in toxicating. In answer to this I will have to say. that | have no knowledge acquired from the personal use of li- quors as to the percentage of alcohol sufficient to produce intoxication. I have no doubt that some of the per sons to whom the governor is appeal ing for support in his candidacy could enlighten him on this subject If they cannot. then I refer him to expert physicians or scientists who have made that subject a study. Presumably mem bers of Congress made the proper in vestigatio nof this when they decided by an. overwhelming majority that li- quors containing more than of per cent of alcohol should not be sold as beverages
 Next the governor asks whether l believe that giving another person a drink outside of ones home. even to save human life. should be made a penal offense. In answer to this would say that this is also immaterial but ] will answer by saying that if had the right to carry the liquor and had it with me and the person would die if denied a drink and I knew that he would die for the want of drink, I would let him have enough to save his life, but no more But this case is far fetched
 T have lived long time and trav- eled long way, but I have never found a man yet who would die for the want of a drink of liquor. But have seen men since the state and national drouth set in who though not sick. claimed they were dying for a drink. It is perhaps these. persons ha commodate
 THE DANGER
 But the danger is in permitting ev- erybody to cary liquor to meet i'm possible emergencies of this kind Such permission would enable the boot legger to ply his trade without being molested or apprehended l will ask the governor if he believes that every body should be permitted to carry liquor in order that he might be ready to supply an extreme emergency like this. Tn answer to another question of the governor. I will state that I do believe in the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment as provided Dy the Nolstead act under the rules pre- | scribed by the federal department for 1 it's enforcement
 HIS CHALLENGE
 "The governor challenges me to point | to a single statement in his platform 1 in which he advocates the repeal of the 1 ( eighteenth amendment. the restoration | of saloons or the traffic in strong | drink for beverage purposes. To com ply will point directly to his advo- | cacy of the manufacture and sale of | beer and wine, the true and real sig nificance of which means the under | mining and torpedoing of the Volstead | act and eventually, perhaps, an effort to strike down the eighteenth amend ment.
 Governor ONeal would not say through his platform that he intends to repeal the amendment or the act. II would not be good policy to do so, but we do remember most vividly that | in 90e when the state prohibition amendment to the constitution was proposed that a great convention of | local optionists met in Montgomery | md raised the cry against search and | seizure of private homes
 But realizing that the saloon had