Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-06-30
WARM TIMES ON DRY
ISSUE IN COMMITTEE
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'To open the way for wine and
beer to be manufactured and sold is
notification pure and simple Mr..
Wheeler continued. "And, besides, it
is bad politics because it would alien
ate the great prohibition majorities
that have been returned in so many
states.
ain these days Of unrest you can
not go before the people on plat
form advocating notification Of an
enforcement of law"
Former Representative Theodore A.
Bell, California, opened the case for
the vets. 81 deny the right to as
sumo" he said, "that the American
people will submit for all time to
come to the intolerance of the Eight
eenth Amendment"
He assailed the position of Mr.. Bry-
an, reading from various platforms
on which the Nebraskan had been a
candidate. In 1890, he said, the plat
form on which Bryan made q cam
paign for congress declared for "pro-
lection of personal rights" against
/ federal encroachment. A similar de-
claration, he said, was in the national
democratic platform Of 1896 and 1900.
"And if the democratic party no
longer stands for the ii ghts Of the
citizen TO decide what he shall eat
or what he shall drink or what he
shall wear" he continued, then it no
longer is q democratic party"
The meeting was stirred into a state
Of uproad when Mr.. Bryan arose to
ask in what capacity Mr.. Bell came
before the committee and what com
pensation he received. -
81 speak for thefagrape growers Of
| California; Mr. Bell replied, "and !
would like to ask the gentleman fol
whom he speaks"
az am speaking for the women ant
children that your traffic would de
stroy," retorted the Nebraskan while
cheers and hises kept the room in ;
turmoil.
"And what compensation do yo1
receive, directly or indirectly, from
the Anti-Saloon League" persists
Mr.. Bell. .l. ,. .l.
+, "None whatever"
''No "a nickel? %
"Not. a nickel. I ought to say tia
during four months of last year
received compensation for certai
public speeches, but for nine year
before / fought this traffic without
penny's remuneration" III -.
Chairman Glass finally asked. flo
order and Jerry Ryan, of the Cali
fornia Trades Union Liberty League
was heard briefly in Erging modif
cation of the Volstead law.
''Your law. is a farce and you sknol
it is farce,,"s laeasaieL "Men .accus
toned to drinking wine are now drink
ing rotgut whisky. The stringency o
the law is making it farce
Representative SABBATH, Of Illinois
asked President Gompers, of Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, whethe
the organization had voted down
recommendation for modification o
the Volstead law as alleged by pub
LEGATIONS. Mr.. Gompers replied tina
by a vote of 10000 to 1000 the O,
ganization had voted in 1919 to as
congress to permit 2.75 per cent beel
At the recent Montreal convention
MIR. Gompers said, it was announce
that the 1919 declaration stood. H
said "libelous reports of the Montres
convention had been sent out"
i W.sBoulke Cochran, Of New Yorl
closed the prohibition hearings. Press
ing his argument on an assumptio
thct the saloon had disappeared for
ever, Mr.. Cochran said he had Al
adherence of the word prohibition i
I free country.
"My objection to prohibition" h
continued, els that it assumes tina
The people are not capable of self
improvement and must be driven i
their morals and daily life,
Either our constitutional theory O
legal lf-government is sound or els
It is not. If you desire real sobriet
and real sanity, trust to the localit
which has always shown itself cap
able of deciding local and nationa
questions fer itself