The Kusko times., 1926-05-15

about it during the night, and the more I tried to cool off the hotter got. The utterly inexcusable declara- ton that prohibitionists as a rule falsify facts might have been expected from a saloonkeeper or the president of brewers association, but it is a patriotic and spiritual tragedy com ing as 1t does from a religious leader.
 But if my startled colleagues still insist that I ought to use more tenn perate language, 1 reply that these wet calumniatUrs of my dry col leagues are as careless about the truth as General Sherman was "care- less about fire" when he marched through Georgia to the sea. The truth Is, gentlemen, I have been lis tening to this wholesale slush, in Con gress and in the press every day, charging lying hypocrisy to prohi- bitionists until 1 am mighty bloom ing" tired of it. Wet leaders claim the inalienable right to call Us all the bad names and charge us with all the high crimes in the catalogue and the decalogue, and then if we reply in kind they throw up their hands in holy horror and charge us with eX- treme language. When somebody says, ou ought not to use such strong language" l can only answer that if some man will invent a lan- guage by which l can express my dis approval of a statement that IS ut terly untrue concerning the decent, God-fearing people of thus country, who believe in prohibition, l will be glad to adopt it.
 I am reminded of that old Presby- terian preacher who said he always felt like the Lord ought to have in vented some kind of language byl which a man could express intense feeling without it's being called pro- fanity. (Laughter.) 1 have never "cussed' since 1 was converted and joined the church, but remember Talmadge said there were times when he "did not feel very devotional" And I do not feel 'very devotional when l remember that on this floor time and again, and all over the pages of the papers of this country, men like Senator Edwards in his radio speech and Senator Edge *l his speech before the wet" convention make wholesale charges of narroWness and insincerity against the patriotic prohibitionists of this country. And here on the floor we have heard over and over again the Anti-Saloon League charged with being an illegal organization with un- patriotic purposes.
 Now our friends on the other side say, "You must let us say all of these mean things we want to, but if you dare to answer in kind We will charge you with using incorporate Ian guage." It makes me think of the woman who rushed out to a passer-by who used the sharp end of pltchfork on her bull dog when he dashed at the man. And she said, "Why didn't you use the other end on my dog?" and he answered, Madam. why didn't [ your dog come at me with the other end ?" Uaughter)
 It has been favorite alibi for "wet" protagonists who can not de fend their personal or political opposi- tion by a duly constitutional law, to point away from their own black spots of lawlessness to the failure of prohibition in the home State of some well-known dry. But this does not get anywhere It only shows that the malignant appetites born of the old ! saloon days are still defying the flag whose protection they invoked.
 Occasionally, on this floor, and ire quently from the columns of the Bal timore Evening Sun and other wet papers, the "Gentleman from Geor gia is asked to sweep before his own door. An occasional ebullition on that line has come from each mem member of the great wet triumvirate, Messrs. Tinkham, GalIivan and Hill.
 Yesterday I wired Governor Wal ker, of Georgia, and Dr. Marvin Will Hams, the brilliant and popular pastor of Wesley Memorial (InstitutionaD | Church to send me an estimate of the general prohibition situation in At