Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-01
DIR. M'DANIEL SAYS
OFFICIALS COOPERATE

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moved. THIS is essential. An OIL
Ger who winks at violations OF the
law Is more despicabie than he
whose lawlcssless the officer con-
zones. a more rigid inspe elton OF
permits Is reducing greatly the
amount Of bonded liquor withdrawn.
Possibly all such liquors will be con-
cen,rated I'm few warehouses. In
that event II Will be easier to prevent
illegal leakage AS compared with
a year ago, the amount of alcohol re-
leased Tor medicinal purposes is only
about 10 per cent"
Arc Not "Good People"
Or. Mcdaniel ridicuicd the state
ment made In some quarters that
prohibition has made good people
lawbreakers. Are these good peo-
pie" he asked. One may hear It
eaid on the train that citizens who
once obeyed all laws now buy llauor
surreptit!ously and serve it in their
homes. Were such persons ever
really law-abiding? II they break
a lew which they do not approve.
or which !ntcrferes with their appe-
| titcs. they have not in them the
spirit OF loyal citizenship. They
| would have broken previously any
other law which II did not suit their
| convenience" to obey.
The prohibition law has simply
| brought 10 light the latent disorder.
/ When they resist tho prohibition law.
! they resist God tRomans Kill. %.
/ oh. for a conscience on this subject,
! a
Just now. II the prohibition law has
demoralized so many good people,
how does It happen that so per cent
OF dry-law violators are aliens? Such
is the estimate Of Assistant Prohibi-
ton Commissioner Jones. The House
of Representatives. by vote OF three
TO one. passed a bill to deport these
aliens Aliens who will not obey
our laws should get on, or be put
out. The 20 per celt OF American
violators should feel u5s:emt ortable In
the company OF so per cent of aliens.
Yet. there is an affinity, for both
are un-American in their spirit.
Topers Now Teetotniers.
Meantime. be grateful for the
henelcent result o! prohibition.
Topers have become teetotalers: oc-
casional drunkards have 'sobered up
poverty has decreased and happiness
nowi rcigns In homes where once
there was discord. The poor man,
with the drink habit. probably has
received the largest blessing. Evan
Gclinc Booth. commander of the Sal
walton Army in the United states.
said, drunkenness among the poor
hnS al 4.
social secretaries replied that cases
OF drunkenness are now exceptions
among men who frequent our hos
telries, shelters and Industrial homes
because prohibition has cleared our
/ park benches OF drunkards, we are
able TO entertain 5000 boys under
IA years old In New York City. On
this day, these boya nre being hene-
! hted because one of the greatest
| curses of humanity has been placed
| beyond the reach OF men and women
I'm that statement. there Is cause
| for qualification. Any law which
| so benefits the weak and needy must
be n desirable law. This is n side
on which some seem not to look.
1t Is n very bright side.
"On many field the forces OF
prohibition have defeated the liquor
traffic. 1t is resourceful enemy.
| 1t rallies and renews the conflict.
| Fear not. fellow-pronibitionist your
cause is just. your side Is right. and
fright the day must win.
| To doubt would be disloyalty;
! To falter would be sin
Not Hasty Act, lie Says.
BE II ever remembered that the
I adoption OF national prohibition was
/ no hasty act. 1t was not done in
/ day or in 4 corner. For two
| generations the question had been
| debated II was the most widely
| discussed issue upon which con-
I stitu,ional amendment was ever
passed. The amendment was rati-
/ fed by an unprecedented number OF
I Statcs--out Of forty eight, only two
have failed TO ratify. Incorrigible
critics of the eighteenth amendment
are very obtusc whom they denounce
il rs 'hasty legislation or declare
that the people never favored IT.
The facts condemn the critics.
when these critics toll us that
the law cannot be enforced and
ought to be repealed, we ask them:
Why not repeal the law against muir
, der, theft and narcotics? These laws
are not enforced absolutely. No one
| has thus far risen with the effrontcry
to say these laws ought to be re-
! pealcd. The liquor traffic was the
! prolific cause of more misery, more
| shame and more crime than all of
these. Added to this was the sin OF
| which the others were not guilty;
viz: the liquor traffic entered poll
tics and tried to control municipal.
county. state and national govern
mcnts for its OWN selfish and lawless
ends"