To those, who have any knowledge in the matter, it is well known that Christ preached the doctrine of free will and temperance, while Mohammed laid down the law of prohibition. With great curiosity, therefore, we have listened for years and still listen to the ceaseless tirade coming from Christian churches where men style themselves American “Crusaders” and denounce, in no temperate language, all Americans who do not align themselves under the “Crescent” flag of Mohammed and respect his Mohammedan command embodied in the First Section of the Eighteenth Amendment. Our curiosity is not lessened by the fact that their denunciation of those, who flatly deny that the command itself is Christian, is always accompanied with an equally temperate denunciation of those who dare to question their Tory concept that governments in America can constitute new government of men. We have seen Webb, with a candor only equalled by ignorance, frankly array himself with those who believe the Tory concept, that the legislatures of the state citizens are “the only tribunal” in which the _national_ part of the Constitution of the American citizens can be changed. To his credit, therefore, we find it a matter of record that, with equal candor, he frankly arrays himself under the “Crescent” flag of Mohammed and eloquently appeals to all other devotees “of the great Mohammed” in support of the Mohammedan and un-Christian precept embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment. That full justice may be done his eloquence and his candor, these are his own words on his immortal December 17, 1917: “During one of the great battles fought by Mohammed, the flag was shot from the ramparts. A daring and devoted soldier immediately seized it with his right hand and held it back on the rampart. Immediately his right arm was shot off, but, never faltering, he seized the flag with his left hand and that, too, was instantly shot away whereupon with his bleeding stubs he held the emblem in its place until victory came. “With a zeal and a determination akin to that which animated _this_ devotee of the great Mahomet, let us wage a ceaseless battle and never sheathe our swords until our constitutional amendment is firmly adopted and the white banner of real effective prohibition proudly floats over every courthouse and city hall throughout this, the greatest nation upon earth.” (_Congressional Record_, Vol. 56, p. 469.) CHAPTER XVIII THE TORY IN THE SENATE