Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-10

| ing by government officials placed in
his hands.
Answering his own question as to
why he did not give the House the
names OF it's drinking members,
! Mr.. Upshaw said the House was not
a Justice court and that Congress
was not a police matinee.
Referring to his recent speech in
! which he brought up the subject or
bootleg liquor drinking by high OFF,
cials. the Georgia representative
said he had made no threat that
| he would publish the names OF
| known Offenders.
Il did not brandish a sword. l
made an appeal" he declare.
Some newspapers naturally put into
the same news story with my gen
eral charges the simultaneous ar
rest here of a certain guided boot
logger. They naturally imagined l
would go after his list of customers.
! l did not have to. I know enough
already to wen nigh break the heart
| Of any man who loves to see public
men walk in sobriety and righteous
ness before the youth of the land.
| II declare now what most of you
know-that bootleggers ply their
devilish trade among too many pub
lie men in Washington.
| Il have seen with my own eyes
! some of the. highest officials in
| Washington, not members of either
branch Of Congress, lifting the devil
| ish bottle to their lips. No dry Off
| cial will stand up and declare an
alibi because his reputation does not
make it necessary, and the drinking
| ones will not dare deny-for there
were other witnesses besides me. AS
for members of this Household
knows I find no pleasure in this dis
closure-but the bright daughter Of
one of the best men in Congress said
| to me: We arc with you. l wish
you could stop liquor drinking in
this House Office building
! "And here" Mr. Upshaw continued
"Is a signed letter that says: - =
a professional bootlegger told me a
year ago, the House office building fur
/ nishes my best customers, and as long
as those blankety blanks keep buying
| I am going to keep selling The letter
adds that the official bootlegger had
been reported several times. but that
| he paid fines and went right back to
bootlegging.'
| Touching on liquor shipped from
abroad to embassies and legations at
I, Washington. Mr.. Upshaw declared:
zone problem that calls for delicate
but firm treatment is the use and
abuse Of liquor shipments to some Of
! our foreign embassies. An able man
/ who was an attache Of our state de-
| partmcnt for more than 80 years has
| written me in desperate seriousness on
| the question. He has seen the prohibit
ton ideals Of this prohibition country
suffer terribly right here in the ma
TONS capital because of the social ex-
change of intoxcants that leads to be-
! wilder and dazzle to blind
"This prominent diplomatic observ-
err declared that polite. forceful note.
such as our brilliant secretary of state
, knows so well how to write, would
cause a ready and universal response
from all foreign legations who would
really rejoice. once they saw our po-
sition, to help the United States, the
first great nation that has launched
upon the greatest moral experiment Of
all time to work out here at the heart
Of national and International influ-
cnces that great plan for redemption
of humanity contemplated in the ratl-
| fication of the Sth amendment
Mr.. Upshaw took shot at Governor
| Smith of New York. who, he said,
/ took an oath to defend the constitu-
ton and then in his next breath joined
the nullificrs of the constitution by
calling on Congress to allow beer and
vino"
And in the fullest fellowship. I
serve notice on the governor of New
York and all who train with him." Mr..
Upshaw. who was for many years an
EVANGELIST, shouted. chat he cannot
roll into the White House on beer
Ike. and wine barrcl-for the mill
tant manhood and the emancipated
womanhood of America will rise up
and smash every jug and break every
bottle and roll every beer key and
champagne barrel into the Atlantic
ocean The inauguration defiance of
|, our national law shut the door of the
|! White House forever in the face of the
present governor of New York and any
other wet presidential aspirant.'
Repeal the 18th amendment. the
Georgian exclaimed.
''Why. you might as we'll talk about
repeating the Ten Commandments of
God because after thousands of years
they are broken every day.