The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-10-25

the county now than you have
members of the Anti-Saloon lea
one" Townley shouted with the
fervor that he used in the DAYS
when he organized the famous
Non-partisan league. There are
more speakeasies now than there
were saloons in the old days"
"Go to the dance if you don't
believe what say, he advised his
listeners and see for yourself there
must be police protection and then
two-thirds of the dancers at coun-
try dances are in the halls or in
the wards drinking. / have seen
them. l know. They are high
school boys and girls and college
men and women.
prohibition has taught people
to drink, men who never drank be-
fore, women, too, and children are
taught to defy the law when they
see morther making brew. In the
old days you paid 5 cents for a
glass of beer. Today you pay 80
a reward of As cents for the boot
logger. If America is not careful
the bootlegger will rule this coun-
try and it will be a fifth or sixth
rate nation"
Warming up to his subject Town
! ley opened up on attempts at en-
forcement by referring to the big
raid made in the Long Island-New
Jersey district a few days back. He
told his audience that it was not
the act of a group of law enforce
ment officers, but a war of boot
leggers. 1t was one bootleggeI
who paved for protection having
another one who did not, arrested
according to the speaker.
Making one reference to his ole
political reign in North Dakota
Townley said, 81 want the law tt
protect me, l believe in the Law
against killing, and ten years age
there are men in this audience who
would have been happy to see me
killed. He pounded on the table
and wound up by saying "you cam
bring liquor back in North Dakota
you can't bring liquor back to thu
United States, because it has new
er been away"
Disclosing his plan Mr.. Townle!
said it was not the saloon, no
the bootlegger, but the placing o.
respectable men in government
owned liquor shops. Closing witt
his usual fervor Mr.. Townle,
watched his opponent closely as h
took up the debate.
Saloon Called POlecat.
"No matter what kind of clothe.
you put on the saloon," Mr.. Up
shaw declared in opening his sec
ond talk, at is like the polecat, an,
the polecat is always the same"
Declaring that lawlessness exist
ed in the old saloons, he told O
the sale of liquor to minors by tn
saloon men. He gave a persona
example, telling of being takel
} from a saloon when a boy an,
dragged home to his mother t
break her heart.
"The saloon keepers never obey
: ed any law" Upshaw declared an
turned to Townley to ask him VIII
he talked against the prohibitio,
law because that was sometime
: broken when the income tax law
and other laws were also broken.
} Declaring he resented Townley'
statement that most women drink,
! Upshaw said, "Townley knows bel
| ter than that. He knows tina
! there have always been criminal
, and always will be. The only wa
, you can regulate the liquor sho
is by smashing its head just a
) you would a rattlesnake. Believ
you can regulate the liquor traffi
: and you can. Mr.. Townley think
you can't that is what is the mat
, ter with him.
Rebuttals are Made.
Returning to the floor after Ur
shaw had finished the former hea
of the Non-partisan league decla1
ed that he wanted to aid in doin
! away with liquor. "Upshaw ha
been working with the Anti-Saloo
league for years, and have bee
! at this proposition for ninet
: days." he declared. "He and Gale
and the other prohibition worker
have been working for ten year,
and if they have not proved by thi
: time that they do not know thei
:, jobs, we can not wait another tie
years to let them show u.s." h
stated. He told Mr.. Upshaw tha
] before the series of debates wer
over, the gentleman would learn
lot about the prohibition questio
that he did not before.
T. Il