New Britain herald., 1922-05-11
WITHDRAW WHISKEY
 FROM WAREHOUSES;
Two Million Gallons Expected to
 Be Taken During 1922

Louisville, Ky, May II, With drawals of whiskcy from bonded warehouses for this year. on the basis of the last three or four months, will amount to about 2.ooO,OOo gallons, which is perhaps only about one half million gallons in excess of nor maj medicinal requirements" R. A.
 Haynes, federal prohibition commis- sioner, told the Churchmen's Fedora ton here today, Mir. Haynes com pared this figure with 130,0o0, 900 gallons of American made whiskcy which he said were consumed in the United States annually during the years immediately preceding prohibit ton, and with about twelve and q half million gallons withdrawn from bonded warehouses on permits in 1920 and about three and half mil lions in 1921.
 Newspapers Wrong
 Tt Is sigDifcant." MT. Haynes con tinued that at q time when liquor is more difficult to obtain than at any other time in our history; when drunkenness has decreased to a very appreciable degree; when convictions for the violation of law are becoming most numerous; that at such times the largest amount of space is given in some of our newspapers to articles most flimsy of facts. which set forth the idea that prohibition was a fail- ure.' I am inclined to believe that this propaganda has its origin in the tnto To aipe part of comparative few, who have felt most forcefully the effects of the law. As long as enforcement officers could be easily bribed as long as the traffic went on unimpeded either by taxes, fines or jail sentences, as long as only the small offenders were brought to justice, there was little cause for the insidious propaganda.
 Nothing can affront the American people more than the statement that we cannot enforce our laws In this statement lies the death warrant of the republic, for this nation cannot endure without reverence for law, without the recognized authority of law. The perpetrators of this new treason ha overlooked one of the great essentials of the American peo- ple that law is but an expression of the nations will, and the will power of America has never met apparently difficulties and changed them into world amazing achieve {; ments.
 Law Ratified
 This law was ratified by forty-six 1,r of t,or of cfa fn that had ever ratified a constitutional | amendment.
 The real issue that underlies all the contest over prohibition enforce ment is Alnericanism in conflict with old world customs and concepts; it is democracy against avarice, lawless- ness and anarchy. It is no mere ex- precision of pride to say that when America wills to do that which other nations have not done, she will not fail of that achievement.
 This is an hour when the burden | of the war rests heavily upon people | through the imposition of taxes, and the astute propagandist has pointed to the fact that prohibition will cost the government nearly $1o,o6o,0OO this coming year,
 However, if we were to collect the fines, penalties and special tax impos- ed upon violators of the law in the first six months of this administration, they would more than pay two and one half times the estimated cost or the prohibition law for the next year. Those enormous figures 10 not include nearly S3,00o,o00 in oonds that are being forfeited to the or s2,000.o00 that have ,een offered in compromise by 21 of he largest violators of the law, and 10 not include s6,000,000 in differ ,ntial or prohibitive tax"