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"A certain type of newspaperman is now seeking to make political capital out of my connection with the grape growers' organization. They nose around my home and try to make lists of guests and have harassed many of my Dry friends in an effort to learn what we talk about over my table and in other ways suggest ulterior motives in my hospitality. . . . These enemies of Prohibition now make the thinly veiled accusation that I have changed my views on Prohibition and that I am now seeking to legalize something that is illegal. . . .
"As a private citizen I have not deviated a hair's breadth. ... I still believe in Prohibition, feel that it is enforceable and desire to support its enforcement. . . . The work I do as counsel for the national organization of grape growers known as Fruit Industries, Inc. is a real aid to law enforcement. . . . The concentration of marketing of grapes and their products under a supervised cooperative agency will make all the easier the work of the Prohibition Bureau in preventing the diversion of grapes to racketeers and bootleggers. . . . Since 1920 fruit juices have been held legal for home use and recognized so by regulations. . . . Every activity of Fruit Industries, Inc. and of my own has been directed along the path of observance of the Prohibition law."