The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-05-01

city of Chicago for violating Sunday laws.
knowledge of these personal matters will
suggest to many that the arf.ipathy to me
as legislator, and the fight that the As
ISOLATION Opposed to Prohibition is Wag-
ing against me, is reflex of the preJu-
dice that the rum outfit has against
clergymen, and also against laymen who
are affiliated with churches and who in
their personal living practice Sobriety. All
this is but an incident in the age-long
fight that whisky has waged against the
church and the Christian religion, in its
determination that none shall hold legis-
latiye Office who seek to uphold the vital
tenents of temperance and sobriety, and
obedience to the laws of the land with
reference thereto, as the same are sub
scribed to by the Christian ministers and
churches of America.
DECLINES ROLE OF TRAITOR
"And now in order to retain paltry
Office, am asked to disregard the pa
triotic example of my forebears, who in
pulpit and on the rostrum and on many
battlefield in every war waged against
my country and the union of her states,
attested their devotion to Righteousness
and our country's veal, and am urged to
abandon momentouS principles and con-
victions, and to compromise with evil, and
to fall in with the plans of those who are
brazenly defying the constitution and the
laws of our glorious republic.
"And now, members of the senate. let
me say to you that the people of the Sixth
senatorial district do not propose to cru
city me for my course in the senate on
this great moral issue.
IT believe that have the overwhelming
support OF women and men who believe in
right living, and in continuing in force
the safeguards which those who preceded
us in these legislative halls wrote into the
statute laws of our commonwealth.
"The propaganda Waged against me has
proven dud
Every unmailed and unsigned post card
that contained the printed demand that
I resign, which the Association Opposed
to Prohibition has put into the hands and
homes of the voters of the Sixth district
is mute evidence of the support that that
organization has created for me. For the
thousands and thousands of friends that
the opposition has made for me, I am
profoundly grateful.
Surely some of you senators realize
only too we'll the terrific fury that an
outraged constituency can visit upon you
if you turn this state over to the forces
of evil, as you surely will if you wipe off
forever from Our statute books every law
which has to do with restraining the
monstrous traffic in liquor.
Let the splendid support that has come
to me in my district in this situation be
an object lesson to you. The clergymen
and the church people and the lovers of
law and order in your communities will
stand solidly with you and reflect you to
the senate if you vote against this repeal
bill and contribute to its defeat. Best of
all your conscience will be clean, and you
can look each member of your family
straight in the eye, without flinching, and
you can round out your lives secure in
their love and companionship. Moreover,
you will continue to have the respect and
confidence of your friends and neighbors
who selected you to represent them in
this august tribunal, believing that you
would protect them ana their homes from
the blight that traffic in alcohol places
upon every community that permits it to
go unchecked.
mo man can compromise on a question
which involves great moral ISSUE"