The Washington herald., 1920-05-05
'GALLIVAN RAPS
VOLSTEAD LAW
Representative in Fiery
Speech launches Pro
hibition Attack.
CITES IMMENSE COST
Makes Blind Tiger . Re
spectacle and Increases
Crime, He Says.
CITES IMMENSE COST

The results of prohibition, ac-
cording to Representative Jaraes
A. Gallivan, Of Massachusetts,. ais
the lifting Of the blind tiger" to
a place Of respectability. tressknd-
Gus expenditures by the govern
ment for its enforcement. and an
increase Of real crime" Gallivan
denounced the Eighteenth amend
ment on the floor of the House yes
terday and predicted that IT'S sup
porters who have sown the wind
will reap the whirlwind."
Asserts II Il Costly.
by the Eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act" said Call
van. I'VE have cut on $4,000. 900 of
revenue from willing taxpayers and
already substituted ss,300.Qo0 sp-
propriations for hungry tax eaters
who are willing to engage in the
work OF spying on their fellows to
discover violations OF the law. am
inclined to think the estimate OF
S50.0o0.000 a year for prohibition
enforcement Is conservative. In ad-
dition to the governments expendi-
lures the AnH-Saloon League Is
appealing for S27.s20,300."
Reviewing the reports Of Illicit
distilling in 1918. Mr.. Gallivan
pointed out that in pioneer dry
States Federal agents seized 6,SSs
Illicit stills and 100000 gallons of
liquor. valued at more than $1,000
900. He said that crime, real
crime. not arrests for Drunkenness,
is on the increase in every part of
the country" A report of the ~
A9uncfafinnl he Said
showed that attacks on banks in
that State had increased from flf-
teen with a total loss of $3o,221.29
in 1915, to 1l9 with a loss Of S307,-
900 in 1919.
Hazards Of Drinking.
THE adventures and hazards of
getting a drink nowadays are the
most popular literature of the day"
he declared. Il venture to say that
there are men in this Congress who,
il they dared. could unfold a tale
Of their own experience in running
the gauntlet of the District liquor
squad or the search of their auto
mobiles at the District line, of the
interviews with bootleggers. or OF
doctors who fear to write prescrip-
tions.
The blind tigers are now sur
founded by romance. IL not respec-
liability, and the bootleggers now
have a clientele that formerly be-
lenged only to the national banks
or the trust companies Moonshin-
ers are no longer among the out
laws of society. for the practice
has become just as common among
the cliff jewellers Of the big cities
as it always has been IN the noun
tains OF North Carolina"
Nas,r IaRuss War.
GaIlfvan 'said that since the Coast
Guard has gone back to the Treas
ury Department and become the
patrol of the seas to guard us from
smuggIed rum" the navy is COM
PEELED to sneak into our ports cam
ouflaged as in the war to dodge
German submarines"
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of
the Navy, Mr.. Gallivan said, COM
planned to David F. Houston, Sec
retary of the Treasury. that one
of the navy submarines returning
from Guantanamo rad been fired
upon by a Coast Guard ship on
suspicion that the submarine was
lowering a pirate craft smuggling
Cuban rum into Florida"
I'VE have peace with all the
world and continue to have war on
the sea and il the air in our own
country with prohibition" CALI
van said.
He condemned the passage of pro-
hibition laws while 100000 voters
were in France. and said that pro-
hibition bad quadrupled the price
of sugar and enabled the sugar
trust to make the billions which It
was declared have heretofore been
wasted on drink"