The Kusko times., 1926-06-19

five minutes of his time yesterday to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr, Up shawl.
 MT. Griffin. Yes, did. in the full. ness of my heart.
 Mr, Oliver of Alabama, have a number of requests, and since the gen l tleman asked for only limited time. I can yield him only five minutes more.
 ] MT. Griffin, That win give me an opportunity to proceed. with my emu meratIon%
 MT. Alderman. MT. Chairman, I will yield the gentleman five minutes additional also.
 MT. Griffin. I will ask gentlemen not to take up any more, of my time, please. The second cardinal misrep- resentation of the Anti-Saloon League, or Total Abstinence. Society, which 1 feel, sure they would prefer to adopt now, is that the eighteenth amendment was fairly and justly adopted.
 I charge that the eighteenth amend ment was not fairly adapted. Alt the time it was submitted there were 32. States out of the 48 States that had prohibition in their constitutions, and submit ito any fair-minded man whether he would care tcO go before jury of AS, with 32 memin the box ob- viously biased against him. 1t was not fair submission to the American people.
 MT. aCrterrof Oklahoma. The gen. tleman will admit that it was submit ted in accordance with, the Constitu- tion9
 MT. Griffin. Yes; but I am dealing with principles of ethics that are, eternal
 Mr. Hudson MT. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
 Mr. Griffin. Yes
 Mr. Hudson. Would the gentlemam mean that it should have been sub mitted before any of the 32 States had prohibition 2
 MT. Griffin No. That is a long story, and 1 can not go into it now, but I shall answer that later The third cardinal misrepresentation off the Anti-Saloon League is calling their opponents "wets." That is an odious term. I do not like it person ally. 1 do not like being put in that category, because I consider that 1 ant reasonably temperate man and al ways have been. I do not like to be classified with men by term that is odious and suggestive of drunkenness and carousing and ribaldry and all sorts of mean and low things, and 1 think that while it may be justifable in the heat of argument to use term of that kind, I submit to the Anti Saloon League that if they want to make friends with the American peo- pie they should abandon their odious term of wet" The fourth cardinal misrepresentation of the Anti-Saloon League is that the "Wets" are in league with tn ebrewers. We are not in league with the brewers. We are fighting the battle on higher grounds. We do not want to bring back the sa- i loons-
 They have no place in our economy, and they were fast disappearing at the time the eighteenth amendment came into existence. Now if the vets, so-called, want to be nasty, they could retort that the drys are in league with the bootlegger. Let me show some fures in reference to bootleg ging. They will prove very interest ing to the gentleman from Texas and I know to the gentleman from Geor- gia; but before I get to that, permit me to refer to Georgia
 Georgia adopted prohibition in 1733-August IL, 1733. But the stills fourished, and bootlegging went on to such an extent that John Wesley, founder of Methodism, was brought into the country to see what he could do by personal suasion After work I ing 16 months in Georgia he was | 4s, suE. I,,. N hoI fOh