Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-01-18
PROHIBITION HAS
NOT COLLAPSED, REV.
BURGAN DECLARES
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rainst every criminal Law on the
tatute books
In the present crime wave all laws
re being violated and none OF them
IRE being enforced with that degree
if efficiency as make for public
afety. He added that the law against
stealing was Older than the Ten Com
landments, that in this country we
nave had some experience in enforc-
ing it. Certainly more than with Pro-
hihition With but ore short year Of
history, vet in five large cities alone
IN the United States last year there
were 1862 violations against the
burglary law. which Is but one form
of stealing. There were 100 pre- -medi-
lated murders IN Chicago alone last
year, and in Philadelphia in the last
three years there have been Isl pre-
meditated murders. This means that
il the logic is sound that laws which
are passed TO prevent crime do not
prevent it. then they ought to be re-
pealed, every law ought to be re-
pealed, and the Ten Commandments
must be repealed likewise.
The preacher stated there were wet
newspapers that claimed that the
present crime wave was due to the
restlessness growing out of prohibit
ton. He charged this was grossly
untrue History sets forth clearly that
every war is followed by a crime
wave 1t was true after our Revo-
lutionary was as we'll as our Civil
War The speaker quoted from a
careful historian the following con-
corning the period following the Civil
/ War After the war came the dem
oralizing influences incident 10 every
post bellum period. Gross immoral
ity, crime, luxury, extravaganza, reck-
lessness pecuniary ventures, intern
perance, etc. characterized the per-
iod So alarming became the symptoms
that the newspapers often spoke Of
1.-The carnival of crime. " The above
quotation was taken from a history
written in 1883. ii was further stated
that after our great wars We always
had trouble with the liquor question.
The Whiskey instruction occurred
Immediately after the Revolutionary
War, and reached such large proper
lions that President Washington was
compelled to order out the army, and
American blood was shed. Following
the Civil War came the whiskey
frauds in which millions Of dollars
was lost to the government and oven
the Secretary 10 the President Of the
United States was involved, so thor
oughly did the corruption o. the whis-
key ring penetrate every phase Of our
national life.
Dr. Burgan showed that the next
Congress will be more dry than the
present Congress, and that prohibit
ton is winning friends everywhere
He dwelt at some length on Baltimore
city police affairs. where IN 1918 q
year entirely Wet, there were 62 0T6
arrests; in 1919, year half-dry there
were 50.027 arrests. and in 1920 ali
dry. there were 4f.9SS arrests. q re-
1uction in two years of 20.0SS, even in
the midst Of crime wave.
Figures were given 70 show that in
1919. $3.50 persons had been arrested
IN Baltimore for drunkenness. while
in 1920 there were bat I.7s5, reduc-
ton Of 3,sli. The preachers concln-
sion was that prohibition has not col
lapsed. but is working reasonably
well. and win work more efficiently
during the present year.