New Britain herald., 1923-01-22
Deplores Lack of Support From Our Represents tiyes in Congress in Talk at Trinity Church.

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 dress at Trinity M. 2. church las evening and asked hls auditors ts consider that as a challenge. Mir
 Wheeler nit right and left al fareei which would have the elghleehll amendment repealed CT the enforce ment act weakened and his talk Na,
 frequently interrupted hy anplaasf from an audience witch showed ilseil plainly 10 be in sympathy with him
 When the weather was considered the attendance was satisfactory. Al
 Mr, Wheeler said, Its wei night for a dry subisets
 Prohibition has reduced drunken, hess all over the unlled States. despite tho widespread feeling 10 the con- trAry," he said.
 Mir. Wheeler came righ, home with hls argument in his effort 10 refuie tho oft repeated statement that There are more drunkafds now than eNer." by stating that in 1929 New Britain had hut ia4 arrests for drunkenness. while in kelt there were a66 arrests in this city for the same offense.
 '.Tho 18th amendment was nut into the constitution by larger majority than any other amendment" he said. "It took two.thirds Of the states. of 72 legislative bodies 10 ratify it and two federal legislative bodies. Ii woual have taken only IS state legls latnres 10 defeat it--but the opp0sl. ton couldn't muster the i5. They never can get those 7e bodies to re- peal it."
 Question Of Law Enforcement
 It Is A question now of law en. Wherever the law is wei! the results arc good. Where the law is only partially enforced il still Is better than the old license sys- tenn. Connecticut has only partial en. iorcements but the results here are 
 '.Prohibiiion has cut the crime rate, drunkenness. lessened the demands on public charity, added ears to human life, saved the lives of thousands of babies and has added millions of dollars to the state Of by it's decrease in the lumber of deaths and preventable ac- idents.
 The saving of human life by elim- nation of preventable deaths and ac- idents in 1919 as compared with | a15 was worth s20,0oo.0o0 to the tate, according to the report of the tate board of health. The death rate | as continued to fall since then. To- ay in the whole country it follows hat has been found true in state fter state where prohibition laws ere enacted and enforced. It was ,wer in 1921 than it ever had been any recorded period of ouA history 119 had a low death rate. But in ,i9 out Of every regiment of 1000 .rsons in the state, 9.3 were told ( f to face the firing squad of death. ! rohibition is better enforced now. { ,day only 14.T of each 1000 die. 2 le decrease in deaths in Hartford's ! te alone was from 16.3 in 1920 to .6 in 1921. le Last Election Victory For NrDrys" ~ Referring to the promises of anti 5 prior to the last con essonal election that they would l t wet men in both houses inI Ip tee of dry" candidates who were ming for reelection, he said thatI ere was a net gain in both senate d house for prohibitionists. He al C
 described as false the statement | at laborng men want the saloon | ok and told of the sweeping nom ation and reelection of the dry IL ndidate in the 33rd Pennsylvania strict which embraces the Westing use plant and the United States . eel works in Pittsburgh.
 Mir. Wheeler declared that a con- ! essional investigation had proved at the German brewers were sup rting a seditious movement during 6 war.
 The speaker referred to q fund lich French and German liquor in .ests have collected with which to ht prohibition in the United States, fllS II IL IS dll lllc SdIls to ehNot | America would rather ve the money in the form of pay mt on the interest, now overdue, on 3 war loans"
 Would Extend Threc-Milc Limit Referring to the three smile limit
 the coast, Mir. Wheeler said it had en established in the days when zee miles was the maximum range