Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-11
WHlSKE'Yl
TAKEN FROM
WAREHOUSES;
Present Rate, 1000 600
Gallons Will be With
drawn This Year.

louisville, Ky-WithdraWaiss OF
whtskey from bonded warehouses for
this year on the basis Of the last three
or four months, will amount to about
100000 gallons, which is perhaps
only about one-half million gallons in
excess of normal medicinal require
ments," r.. A.. Haynes, federal pro-
hibition commissioner, told the
Churchman's Federation here. Mr..
Haynes compared this figure with
130.0e0,000 gallons OF American made
whiskey which he said were consum-
ed in the United States annually dur
ing the years Immediately preceding
prohibition, and with about twelve
and a half million gallons withdrawn
rom bonded warehouses on permits
in 1920 and about three andWa half
millions in 1871. &
1T is Significant" Mr.. Haynes. con
tinued that at IA time when li1uer4
is more difficult to obtain than at any
other time in our shisory: 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 -ewspapers to articles
most fimsy of facts, which set forth
the idea that prohibition is a failure
/ am inclined to believe that this
propaganda has It's origin in the In
terest of large personal gains on the
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. mes or jail sentences, as
long as only the small offenders were
brought to justice, there was little
cause for he insidious propaganda.
Means Death Of Republic.
Nothing can affront. the American
~eople more thar the statement that
we cannot enforce our laws. In his
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 have overlooked n OF the
great essentials of the American peo-
pie; that law is but an expression of
the nations will, and the will power
of America a ever met apparently
~insuperahle difficulties and changed
them into world amazing achieve
ments - e
This law was ratified by forty-six
states, the largest number of states
that had ever ratified a constitutional
amendment.
The Real Issue.
1.-The real issue that underlies al
the contest over prohibition enforce
ment is A~mericanism in conflict with
old world custonns m concepts; it is
democracy against avarice, lawless-
ness and anarchy. J. is no more ex-
preston of pride to say hat when
America will 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 propaganda has pointed
to the fact that prehihitiont will cost
the government nearly $l0.0oa.0 900
this year. However, If *we were to
collect the fines, penalties and special
tax imposed upon violat0rs of the law
in first six msnths OF this admin
istration, they would more than a
two and one-half times the estimated
cost of enforcing the prohibition law
for the next year. Those enormous
figures do not include nearly $1,000
900 in bonds that are beang forfeited
to the government, or $2,0e0,800 that
have been offered in compromise by
twenty-one of the largest ~violators OF
the law, and do not include $4,000
900 in dtfferential or prohibitive tax"