Show LONG DISCUSSION 1 I ON PROHIBITION House Committee on 00 Judiciary Hears Both Sides of Ques Question Question Question tion at Spirited Session CHALLENGE BY COLBORN JUDGE IS WILLING TO MEET ANYONE IN DEBATE Several exciting incidents characterized the hearing on prohibition prohibition tion ton before the te Judiciary committee commit of the house of representatives 8 last night In his speech Apostle Hebr Heber Hebo J Grant Grant said sid he hc had heard herd that Judge Colborn Colbom was to challenge him to debate In the theater or the Tabernacle In turn tum Judge Colborn accepted tho gauntlet thus thrown down or even better beter lie ho h said sid he would bring Mayor Rose of Milwaukee here hert to debate the question queston with wih arty ay al one ole If Apostle Aposto Grant would secure seure permission to speak spek in the Tab Tabernacle Tabernacle The offer ofer of oC the Tabernacle however was wa not forthcoming at the tIme tnie and then Judge Colborn Colbor said he was willing to go into any an pulpit and debate the affirmative side of tho ques question tion ton The judge put this as a a chal challenge challenge lenge Inse arid and tl d the Rev Ro F B 13 I Short Shot offered his hi church the First Methodist But at this point Representative Hoi Hol Holman Homan man of the committee got Jt in and said he thought It was childish on the part par of or professional men to Indulge In chal challenges chal challenges challenges lenges lenges He said further that he In Insisted Insisted that some who ho were present evi evidently evidently dently as professional should be subdued A A Riser In the audience gald aId Id he was not pot to be insulted He warned the rep representative representative that tat he would get more mor than he was looking for even cven though he wore a representative If he eon con continued con to insult Insul him Riser said they should not allow alow applause if they the did dl hot not want it i Mr Short said sid he m could not allow alow the te challenge to go unanswered Challenge Is Withdrawn rawn Judge Colb m saul said sid that In courtesy courtes to the house hous he would withdraw the tho te challenge to be bc renewed at any time Heber J 1 Grant also aso explained a it 1 cir clr circumstance circumstance He said sid the Mormon church and ad tho the Methodist church were not In Inthe Inthe the fight as organizations Then ho he h referred to what he hc called one of the dirtiest rottenest and most contemptible editorials ever over written In Ina Ina a I local paper TIlls This referred to birr hini being ft it 1 director in the Z C M I I 1 and the desire of the tho corporation to mo nb the t e whisky whisk business He lie said si he lie had had only 00 worth of stock in iii the concern that that the profits from the the drUi store oh air of whisky did not amount to more than 30 and per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps he got a fourth of oll 1 per cent from It h I Goshen Against Prohibition The Rev Elmer I Goshen was the first speaker and he ho came cam out In tn opposition opposition to prohibition Ho He said paid he ho had Jived tved In two prohibition towns and he never wished to live lve in another He had ha seen more drunkenness there than he had ever seen anywhere In his life He Ire believed a prohibition law would be reactionary that It would be against economics If I the state had tho the power to prohibit It had the power to regu regulate regulate regulate late late and If they 0 can not regulate how howIn In the th name of oC God are ar they the to pro prohibit prOhibit prohibit hibit he asked aske He Il was for temper temperance anco ance but not for statewide prohibition ton tonIs tion Is Against Hysterics Judge Colborn olborn pleaded d for or cool cool calm Judgment and ad against petitions of son sen sentiment fen and ami hysteria Tho The judge had ha fortified himself with wih telegrams from prominent men In Kansas as a to how prohibition is operating In that state The following is 18 from A D B formerly presiding Judge of or the court curt of appeals appels at Hays Kas Has Kashe The he prohibition law of ol Kansas Is fearfully and wonderfully made The longhaired men and the shorthaired women hav have all al the prohibition they want the of the Inhabitants all the booze they Ule want want It I Is merely a 11 political dodge worked by all al candi daU datte datt for tor office from the governor down downto to rONI rol overseer before election electon both ways for and against as the locality demands and forgotten the day after election electon No administration has ha ever ever yet had the courage if I they had ha the te In Inclination i to enforce It except by talk talk It I has ha fastened upon the state an army ary Of or sneaks and perjurers has brought the sanctity of the Ue oath Into disrepute and disrespect for other laws It I Is thin of ot the demagogue simply a plaything play has been productive of crime of or the class that taps the vitals lat of govern government government ment and does doe not n t correct the evil at attempted attempted attempted tempted ment to lo be eradicated by b IL it It I has ha Kansas the dumping made the state tte of mae ground grund of 01 the vilest con concoctions concoctions that can be produced either In Inthe Inthe inthe the still or chemical works and I ser seriously serIously seriously sti doubt that It I has ha reduced the drink habit at all al It certainly has In Increased creased private drunkenness and ad the army arm of or hypocrites who howl God and ad morality and drink In their homes and beyond morn doubt gives no protection to the te generation cen On the contrary it itIs ItIs Is 15 a detriment detriment It I Is fastening upon us snitch a lawyers lawers who cannot make a liv living 1 ing log in the profession but now through the state st te bring actions aton in the name nae of good morals and licentiousness for the th moras ro graft gf there ther is in It I enjoining expense upon the counties and stirring strIng up strife Kansas Editor Heard From The following came from Dr J 3 F P Galley Calley CUey editor of oC the te Kansan at Pitts Pittsburg burg Kas Ka Five hundred empty residences and twenty vacant business houses houes and a I depleted treasury are monuments to deplete prohibition we have have in this state blind I pigs and bootleggers in abundance George Gerge W V Peck former forer governor of ot i Wisconsin sent ent the following I From my personal p rna investigation of I prohibition In Iii Maine Georgia Dakota Dakota ane Georg Kansas and ad other stateS state I am 0 satisfied I that prohibition does doe not prohibit that tat where I have ha been ben there Is h more snore drunk drunkenness drunkenness drunkenness enness than where saloons are ae open that perjury Is encouraged hypocrisy general generl The law Is constantly and ana an Irresistibly violated crime Increases Children are arc encouraged to laugh at at violation of the law Jaw and that temper temperance temperanc anon ance anc Is not a result of ol prohibition laws Jw The Rev Re F B Short made mae a brief bre ad address Ad Address address did Mrs dress favoring the tho measure as Mrs E E E Sheperd James H Mays J An Andrews Andrws Andrew drew drews and George aL tL t Cannon closed the debate debate Mr Short Shor said eald his hla church was wa in debt but he would rather see Se it go I and have prohibition Judge to debate I the te question queston with any minister still sti stands the basis bais of ol argument to be bei i confined to Holy Writ |