Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-16
UPSHAW CR|T|C|zES
NORTHCL|FFE ACTION

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug 49,
In a statement made public today,
Congressman w. D. Upshaw, of Geor-
gia, severely criticized Lord North
cliffe for his actions while a guest
in this country, and for his rupture
with the heads of his own govern
ment.
Congressman Upshaw asserts that
Lord Northcliffe "by ridicule and
unbecoming smartness," tried to
break the influence of the national
prohibition law. His statement fol-
lows:
1.-The enormity of Lord Northcliffe's
recent outbreak grows upon the
friends of righteous government and
world sobriety as we hear the echoes
from his efforts to ridicule part
of the constitution of the country
in which he was an honored guest.
Personally, L believe so much in the
fellowship of England and America as
essentian to the prosperity of each
other and the happiness of mankind
that I declined the same week he
was in Washington an lnyitatl9n TO
this city. And while both. as an
American citizen and a member of
congress, 1 was refusing to give en-
couragement to anything that would
weaken that solidarity and strength
of the British government, this
wealthy British lord, editor alb pub
licist was giving out interviews in
New York and Washington, trying to
break the influence of our new
national prohibition law.
with unbecoming smartness he
says First show me prohibition and
I will tell you what l think OF 1t.
I have found none in America That
bright remark will admit of only one
Interpretation, and that is, the Eng
lish lord and his high-flylnG COM
panions became partners in the crime
of encouraging law breaking and ly-
ing in America. l know some high
class men from England who have
not found from personal investiga-.
OF course, we haven't perfect pro-
hibition yet. The new law has not
yet had an unchallenged opportunity
to properly function. And we will
not have complete prohlbltlon as
long as the. former saloon keepers
live and their money holds out; nor
as long as England and other coun-
tries are permitted to continue to
ship liquor into d friendly. country
that has outlawed the devilish stuff.
over against Lord Northcliffe's
unfortunate position put the WIS
dom of England's loyal, .spunky pre-
mier (wIom Northcliffe criticizes
with such poor taste), the greatest
premier since Gladstone, who declar-
ed during the world war that the
tile liquor traffic is a greater enemy
of England than the German empire
Yes, and I answer the Northcllffe
folly with the wise statements OF
Gladstone himself, who said to those
making the revenue argument: Gen
tlemen, give me a sober citizenship
not spending their earnings for drink,
and l will take care of the revenue.
And, by the way, 1 submit that wis
dom to those disturbed political
leaders and blind financiers who are
proposing, according to press an
nouncements, to raise a billion dol
lars in revenue by taking two billion
dollars from the pockets of the
masses who are willing to bring the
German brewer back into the corrup-
tion Of American politics in order
to get the lager beer that they want.
And 1 furthermore submit to
Lord Northcliffe that it would be far
more wise and humanitarian If
man of his high station would start
around the world, not to encourage
lawlessnesS and drink, but rather to
use his mighty influence to create
zone of light ana Blessing by en-
couraging friendly America in the
greatest moral experiment that any
nation ever attempted, and helping
England and America to join hands
under two stainless flags In a COM
mon purpose 10 emanc1pate humanl-
ty from the slavery OF this mighty
curse. Men in such high station as
Lord Northcliffe ought to remember
the great Biblical truth, If the light
in thee be darkness, how great as
that darkness E"