The Washington times., 1923-10-13
TEN-YEAR FIGHT
AHEAD FOR
DRY i. s.
Haynes Tells Conference Of
misunderstanding for
Strict Enforcement.
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register before Enforcement was
made more difficult because some
of the people did not have the proper
patriotic attitude" toward the law.
Hor1es In Jails.
Men in the jails today are sorry.
ing sentences aggregating 1900
years, the commissioner told the
conference, for refusing TO adhere
to the LIQUOR laws, and that fines
totaling 81, 1851, $50 have been ~
sessed in the twenty-three past
saThe prohibition law-as an other
laws-is being violated, he said,
"If every citizen would do hia
duty to his fellow-men we would
need but few, IL any, laws. to car
ry out the work. Criminal laws
are not made for the law-abidina
but for the 1awless, and this class
of citizens will always break the
law as long as they see an opror.
tunty to do It. No one on sober
thought will insist that law IL a
failure simply because It II VIC.
lated.
'aThere has been widely heraldcd
the thought that this law was in.
tended only for the poorer classes
and the working man. Every walk
informed citizen knows this state
ment to be absolutely false, and a
lack of general obedience on the
part of the weather. influential
strata of American life win hiudeH
the work OF 1aw-enforcement 10 a
serious degree.
Claims AbuS0 T.essene6.
"The abuse of. allowing over
drafts, out Of total OF $4,000
Withdrawals, were noted, and In nq
instance was the number OF gallons
allowed in excess OF the basic per
NIT more than four.
"In 1920 whiskey Withdrawals az.
gregated 12,389,529 gallons. In
1921. during which period the pres
ent administration, with the new
ideas of organization, more ade'
+uuate. supervision, new regulations
and various safeguards, had charge
for only six months, Withdrawals
aggregated 3,243,845 gallons, and
during the past calendar year, 1917
withdrawals of medicinal whisksy
aggregate but 1.S19,8SS gallons.
The prohibition commissioners
closed his address with an optimis.
tic prediction of the future enforce
ment of the law.
Issue Seen I'm 1924.
The prediction that the wet and
drv question would be one Of the
imnortant issues in the 1924 presi.
denfial campaign was. made by
Rishop William r. Mcdowell, OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in an
address at the opening conference.
Risl1op Mcdowell revealed that
one of the principal purposes Of the
conference was to marshal public
opinion to oppose any attempt to
IiberaIize the Vo1stsad act.
tsI ,et us here resolve" he declared
..that there shall be no compromise
with lawlessness and no notification
of law anywhere within our borders.
eve have heard good deal about
making the world safe for demQc'
racy. But a lawless democracy Il
not safe for the world. Our task 4
the creative task of making "a democ.
racy that is strong within Itself and
that can go anywhere.
The Rev. Charles Sickle, ID. p
of New York city, submitted figures
to show that the country was bet
ter off under prohibition and denied
that the dry law had anything 20
do with the present distress among
the farmers.
DIR. ,Stelzle said that the great
mass of workingmen in the United
States stand for prohibition, but Qe'
clared that it was impossible Tor
them to express this convlcuon
through the labor union"