The Kusko times., 1926-05-29

and all forms of intoxicating drinks would flow practically unrestrained.
 In other words, they propose to win their fight by going bodily into the enemy's camp, and the loyal friends of sobriety, especially the voting motherhood of America, will refuse to go with them.
 The self-effacing spirit of the heroic crusader is not found in the declara- tion of Doctor Empringham that 'my investigation has showed me that had been a alarmed fool to give up a good church and good stipend to make the world good overnight" Alas, the dreams and the memories of big stipends do not feed the warp and wool nor build the fiber of moral herOism. These tragic regrets also seem to have blinded our unfortunate and erring brother to the fact that the very conditions of which he is com planning give him a larger opportun- ity than ever to show the spirit of the unselfish crusader which caused him to "give up his good church and big stipend" to help the cause of sobriety
 If, as Doctor Empringham declares, there is more drinking than ever, es- PNNAoiAS EtItiOAtE 1tiC SOuII u GilC lciIitly in Gods name why does not he get on his knees and roll up his sleeves and plunge into the very heroic work of education and moral suasion" in be- half of sobriety? He has far he can bring to his aid those great twin inspirations-ou sober Constitu- ton and our stainless flag. Every inch o11I of ffNnt,,,rr Americas" patriotism would now leap moral and spiritual appeal.
 Doctor Empringham simply got dis couraged too soon. Nobody except fanciful dreamer ever expected the world to be made better overnight by legislation. Bound by the chains of long, long night of liquor appe- tlte, the friends of prohibition expect ed 1t to take something like genera tion to cure the Nation of it's long de bauch; and with the exception of an occasional spasmodic modern rum re- belGon" in some of the big wet cen ters, we are moving grandly upward and onward in the cause of America s emancipation.
 Those patriotic prohibition Epsco- palians who may feel grieved and hu- initiated over the regretted apostacy of this Episcopalian clergyman should take comfort in the fact that his un- fortunate utterance has been widely and vigorously repudiated by so many Episcopal leaders. The truth is, as far as a national impression Is con cerned, it has fallen flat and will serve as boomerang in favor of pro hibition enforcement.
 The Temperance Society, directed by Doctor Empringham, seems to be largely paper organization. Its present state is largely one of inactiv- ity, very much like a certain "Dis- abled Veterans Association" of which my friend, Mr. Fish, of New York, told me, and which alleged organiZa- tion protested against payment of the soldiers bonus. Investigation dis closed thot the organization had eX- actly three members. It sounded big but it acted mighty small The great denomination of law abiding, sober, God-fearing Episcopalians, with membership in excess of ,200,0 ,000 in the United States, many of whom honor this House as members, and who are overwhelmingly dry, will move graadly on in support of this wholesome cor stitutionai law In the meantime the;r natural pride can find worthy solace in the thought that Richmond Pearson Hobson, hero of the Merrlmac, is a conseefated EpiS- copalian layman, who has done more for the cause of prohibition than any other man in America next to that stainless Christian statesman William J: Bryan. Verify, Hobson outranks Empringham in the pride of Episco- palians and for the safety of Amer ican youth.
 MT. Boylan. Will the gentleman yield for a question there2 know