The Kusko times., 1926-05-15

brand such an indictment of my faith full comrades, both men and women, as miserably and palpably untrue. "But," said another honored colleague, you surely don't want to say that about the statement of a cardinal" l answered, Let the cardinal withdraw the foolish and cruel charge that the great army of white ribbon women and men with whom I have trained for a generation are habitual law breakers and liars. Whether it is a Cabinet officer, a United States Sen ator, a Methodist bishop, a Baptist evangelist, Presbyterian doctor of divinity, the Archbishop of Canter- bury, or the Pope of Rome, I don't propose to allow any man to declare. without my indignant protest, that the stalwart, God-fearing men and praying handmaidens of God who fought for prohibition, on their knees as well as at the ballot box, are given to the "habitual practice of misrepre- sentation." In other words, these wet leaders say that my dry comrades are hypocrites and liars, and 1 answer traducers high and low, "You are an other"
 This unwarranted indictment from this Roman Catholic dignitary strikes at the treasured faith and practice of many of his own people. There are thousands of sober, sincere Catholics in my home city of Atlanta and all over America who believe in prohibit tion, who voted for prohibition, and who practice what they preach.
 Monsignor Cassidy, of Fall River, Mass, who has tough tliquor and liquor shops for 25 years, recently took sharp issue with Cardinal O'Don- nell in speech before a Catholic total abstinence society, declaring that he was in no sense responsible to this "wet" cardinal and that he pro- posed to obey his own conscience be fore God in fighting humanity's great est curse.
 remind you that loyalty to huor wipes out all sense of party and na- tional loyalty Liquor will change Republican into q Democrat overnight (Laughter.l
 MT. Black of New York. We'll that is all right.
 MT. Upshaw. And worse than all, from my standpoint, it will change a Democrat into "blooming" Repub- lican. Of course that word bloom ing" means beautiful. Uaughter) Mir. Black of New York. Does the gentleman refer to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr Tinkham)
 Nr. Upshaw. l will come to him directly. For instance, in that in genious compilation yesterday read by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Tinkham), in which newspapers and church dignitaries were called upon as witnesses against our consti- tutional law, it will be remembered that all along there were scathing references to the Anti-Saloon League; there were indictments, if you please, against organized righteousness, as if there is anything wrong or culpable In God-fearing men organizing, not as churchmen but as citizens, to try to influence legislation as they see fit.
 Our 'wet" friends continually rise up and say "You can not make men moral 'by legislation" Nobody be- lieVes that better than we, but We an- swer that inasmuch as no nation can live without morality, it is the part of Government to stand by the door of every home and every school and every church and strike down the wolves of immortality that are crouch ing to destroy the children without whose moral stimulus this Republic can not live.
 MT. Tinkham will remember that I stood for his having a square deal, and he knows that l am his personal ] friend. He knows mighty well that would not harm hair of his head. 1 (Laughter.)
 MT. Tinkham. I have not many to spare. Uaughter.}
 Mr. Upshaw. But if he makes him self the vehicle of outrageous charges against my crowd and against my cause he must not complain if ma ] chine gun peppers and punctures his rotund personality Gaughter.l In one of these compilations he read from an archbishop or q cardinal-I did not get the name, and have not 1 gotten it yet, so there is nothing per sonal in it-in which statement was made that prohibitionists habitually misrepresent the facts l am stirred within me. The Bible says "as much as lieth within you live peaceably with all men," It does not lie within me to live peaceably with man who charges that the great God-fearing masses of patriotic men and women who fought for this law through gen. erations, on their knees as well as through the ballot box, are habitual prevaricators and liars. (Applause.) T 1,