The Kusko times., 1926-05-15
WHAT "wETs" AND "DRYs,' THESE DAYS. ARE TELLING EACH OTHER IN HALLS
 GREss ABOUT PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT

man who called on the army to put down the rum rebellion" in Pennsyl- vania would not conspire with a boot legger to trample the Constitution defy the flag, and if necessary he would call out both the army and the navy to put down this modern rum rebellion at home and sink every pirate liquor ship to the bottom of the sea. (Applouse.)
 Ia close juxtapositlon to this un patriotic Washington's birthday per formance was the radio speech of Senator Edwards, of New Jersey, who followed up his charge in his recent Wilmington speech that the Anti-Sa- loon League and it's supporters are
 'conscienceless hypocrites and fla natics," and that Wayne B. Wheeler, hhief counsel and legislative superin- tendent of the. League, is an "arch traitor to freedom" The papers thus reported him, but he says now he soft ened his actual speech. But, of course, he still thinks what he first wrote.
 With such monstrous statement against decent, sober, God fearing, patriotic litizens already in his wet" soul and system, 1 am glad it came out somehow outside the Senate Chamber, for if spoken there 1 would have been estopped by certain man dator yamenities from saying what l think; but as these outrageous utter ances were made outside the Senate l can say what 1 "gentlemanly please" about them, my only trouble being that of the old farmer who lost all his apples while his wagon went up the hill The mischievous boy who had lifted the wagon gate so the apples would roll out asked: "Why don't you cuss, mister ?" And the old farmer, scratching his head, replied: Be cause I can't do the subject jestis."
 simply cannot find language to express my condemnation of such a groundless and outrageous charge against the sober, patriotic masses of Americans who believe in and practice prohibition, and their trusted leader, Wayne B. Wheeler, whose chief crime in the eyes of the "wets" is the fact that he has given himself unselfishly since his college days to a truceless warfare against the liquor traffic first legal, now illegal. Wayne B. Wheeler is human, and here and there he may have made mistakes of judg ment, but 1 think l have never known man in such responsible, trying position to make so few mistakes. And one thing is certain-with the merci- @less searchlight of his liquor critics thrown on him for more than thirty years, they have never been able to find one crooked step he has ever taken. or one feck upon his name. And yet this New Jersey Senator who boasted that he was elected on a platform Gas wet as the Atlantic Ocean," spreads the newsaper charge all over America that "Wayne B. Wheeler is an archtraitor to free don1.'
 Es Such raw, wretched language from "wet" United States Senator con- corning a man who is fighting valiant ly for the sobriety of American youth {~reflects no honor upon the august body to which he belongs; but the chief tragedy in such language from I Member of the United States Sen
 ate is the fact that it seeks to break ] the power of the forces of righteous
 ness and gives encouragement to a
 mongrel mass and mess of rum sell
 CTS, lawbreakers, and liars who would
 rather see Wayne B. Wheeler de- -throned, perhaps, than ay other man
 in America.
 This outrageous language concern
 ing our "dry" leader, who is as clean
 as he is keen, and as knightly as a
 woman's ideal, is only another illus
 tration of the fact that whether a j man drinks liquor or whether he thinks" liquor, it warps his reason \ and annihilates his loyalty to all that l is highest and best
 1 The speech of the gentleman from ] Massachusetts (Mr, Tinkham) yester- ' day is a case in point.
 In all that pitiful compilation of in- dictments against our prohibition slaw-its essence and its operations
 there was a superabundance of free advice concerning the "fanaticism
 and "insincerity' of prohibitionists And one Roman Catholic prelate .l whose name I did not catch as the 1 gentleman from Massachusetts began I to read, ran thoroughly amuck with , the sweeping and unqualified declara- I tion that prohibitionists habitually T practice misrepresentation.
 f l confess to nasty display of tenn I per and a>worthy expression of right eous indignation for which I can find I no word of apology after the cooling 1 processes of a good nights sleep. The ! truth is, since I have had time to cool off, I am hotter than ever. My first
 impulse as heard the statement read
 was to say, "That is miserable lie, ,