The gentleman himself made the statement. I did not then and do not now say what the gentleman hints at Now that you have granted me permission to extend my remarks. may I say to my friends from the Southland that I did not intend in what I said yesterday to single out any number of my fellow Democrats as being altogether the bulwark of the AntiSaloon League In this House. I am looking at some of my colleagues out of the Middle West. transformed from wilderness by the sweat and strength of the immigrant. working side by side with him who marched out of New England with an ax and plow to found a free democracy. What of you men? You have forgotten the teachings and traditions of the fathers and founders of the West. you have almost betrayed the creed of the men who said that wealth and comfort and ease were as dust in their mouths without freedomfreedom of speech. religion. and actiona home that was a sanctuary free from the meddling and spying of an outside world. a community free from the restrictions and dictations of selfappointed censors. a State free from the interference of churches and churchmen. where religion and statecraft had no alliances or entanglements. open or disguised. a State free to legislate. that obeyed the voice of the people and gave us laws that were obeyed. not evaded.
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