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st know ATS per cent beer Is intoxi.
eating" she added.
"I could ask you how you know, buf
I won't" Estep said.
Mrs. Lippincott was applauded, ant
Representative Rainey Democrat, O
illinois,, cautioned the women to re-
sist further demonstration.
This committee is operating unde
| the rules of the House, and spectator
are not permitted to applaud" Raine,
said.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley Of Washington
president of the District of Columbi:
Federation of Women's Clubs, was pre-
sented by Mrs. Peabody to read testi
mony Of her late husband, DR.. Harvey
| w. Wiley, food and drug expert, a
other legislative hearings.
What is intoxicating liquor?" she
asked, and then gave DR.. Wiley's an.
swer:
"An intoxicating liquor is one which
when injected into the stomach and
absorbed into the blood creates a toxic
effect Con any or all of the body organs
and functions). That effect may be un-
noticed by the subject or those who
surround him, or 1t may be of such a
character as to render him at once evi-
IDENTIFY unbalanced"
Mrs. Wiley was not questioned
Mrs. Colvin said If liquor came back
at all, I'D rather have the old saloon
back, have the man drink it where he
buys it and have the saloon keeper take
care of him"
She opened valise and brought out
bottle of milk, toys and bread, as
serting:
IF the man gets his glass of beer
| the children will have tn give IN fhae.
| for Christmas"
THE Fall election was not a we
mandate, for the drys had no chanc,
to vote for either major party and ex
press themselves on the economic issue
and at the same time vote dry.
Nor was the Democratic plank {
mandate to Democrats to vote for re
peal or modification.
| Gov. Roosevelt, in letter to DR.
G. F. Reisner, before the election alb
solved the Democratic members of Con
gress from support of the platform
The bill before the committee is pre-
| Sumably for revenue purposes, but IL
reality it will be more than that, for
would re-define intoxicating liquors ant
thereby legalize beer of an increased
content similar to that produced befor
prohibition. and wines Of any natura
| fermentation.
LAS 90 per cent OF the pre-war liquo
consumption was beer, 1t would brin
back 90 per cent Of the pre-war liquo
business, but it would also bring bacl
the brewers. The newspapers alread
announce that gangsters and racketeer
in Chicago are arranging for permit
to engage in manufacturing beer.
'The plea Is made that not only vii
this bill produce revenue, but also Civ
employment to hundreds of thousands
At no time were there ever more thai
1900 employed in the manufacture o
| liquor in this country. The liquor traf
flc is parasitic industry"
Reads Roosevelt Letter.
Mrs. Colvin was requested to reat
Gov. Roosevelt's letter to which sh
referred and she produced photostati
copy Of letter addressed to Christian
F. Reisner of New York and date,
September IL. 1882. 1t said:
IT am always glad to hear from you
| I believe that my talks so far on tn
prohibition plank of the Democratic
| platform outline my views on the sub
! ject, regarding the last question, I nigh
say that Democratic Senators ant
Representatives are bound to vote IL
accordance with the views Of their con
| stituents regardless Of their persona
opinions.
IT would suggest that you read m
speech made at Sea Girt, N. j., ol
August 27, copy of which I am in
closing"
Mrs. Colvin was asked by Repre-
sentative Watson, Republican, OF Penn
! sylvania:
would you prefer to have the Gov
crnment control the liquor traffic o
Bootleggers now are selling It,"
''If my girl had t. go down by tn
liquor route woulo .ather 1t would
through the bootlegger than through m
Government by its being in the liquo
business" she replied.
II think 1t Is wrong to let the trafh
be in the hands Of bootleggers," Wat
! son observed.
The Government Is stronger tina
the bootleggers," Mrs. Colvin rejoined.
1T doesn't appear like it." he assert
ed. II am in sympathy with the tenn
perance movement, but it doesn't ap
pear that the Government can contrc
the bootlegger.''
Miss Vida Holland of New York Cit
said: THE brewers who declared year
ago that they would obey no law whicl
tended to cripple the beverage industry
(see Brewers Journal, May /, 1910 ar
now represented as public-spirited citi
zens, who once again take up the burde,
Of making America drunk solely be
cause they would save us from tn
bootleggers, while emitting from tn
picture that they were the protectors Q
blind tigers in prohibition days"
But this Misrepresentation has a
last struck home" she added, "an
women who had no vote when tn
eighteenth amendment was passed ar
becoming more and more determine
to hold for their own Sakes, as well q
for their children, and what the men
vote won for the Nation when it wa
decided to outlaw the liquor traffic i
these United States.
Refers to Gold Standard.
1.-THE women look abroad, and h
beer drinking Germany, wine -drinktn
France, and in beer, wine and whisky
drinking England, they find countrie
which have been tottering for years o.
the brink Of economic chaos, and tw
of which have in despair had to re
nounce the gold standard, while dr.
America still keeps 1t.
There is absolutely nothing In tn
social, economic or moral life of Britain
to encourage us to believe that the free
dom from prohibition t. helpful
factor Crime has increased, Povert
has increased and drinking anon
young people is q serious problem"
Mrs F. j. johnson of Delaware, Ohio
said: This fight for beer is only a,