New Britain herald., 1924-01-19
VETERAN DRY HITS
 HARD AT THE l8TH
Congressman Sherwood, 88, De- ClareS It Has Failed to Prohibit
COSTS THOUSAND MILLION
Venerable Ohio Representative De- elares Present Policy is Making Menaces Their Morals.

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 Menaces Their Morals.
 1 Washington, Jan. 19.-Flourishins an empty flask and assaiing the ac, ! tivities of the anti-saloon league and Representative Upshaw, democrat
 Georgia, Representative Sherwood
 democrat, Ohio. Ss year old veteran
 of the h' re of representatives, told
 his cole 1Gday that up to 1924, it is gefs. led that prohibit ton e''. S 5,,, '.a., Pa have failed to enf ~{es rsUr, sssS- charged that .4 fAl, in-
 creased e. 'tO1,s,s ent of the dry laws. a0o
 Signed PIed,.. o
 Declaring that when liss nly 12 years old he had signed a ten. ,erance pledge and would vote for no law which tolerates intoxicating liquor as q beverage" He insisted that prohi- bition had failed to prohibit although it had cost the taxpayers lover q thousand million dollars in revenue in the last two years.'
 FattoiI'g Stii. tohCfutS the failure" he said. 'The president comedies the failure to enforce the law, when he asks for an appropria- tion of s2O,Ooo.oo0 by congress to build fleet Of vessels to enforce the law on the Atlantic coast only"
 He cited figures to show that there was mounting consumption of Brit ish liquors in the United States placing the 1923 exports from that country at 25,000.000 gallons compared with 22,- 100000 gallons tho year previous.
 Young People "Tipsters'
 Since the passage by congress of the Volstead act" said Mir. Sherwood, there has been large increase in booze drinking among young men and young girls If has become a menace to orderly society. Young men who never indulged in liauor before are now carrying Tasks in hip pockets loaded with moonshine or bootleg whiskey, and young girls are induced to drink the vile stun in dance halls and automobiles parked along lone- some roads. It is a moral menace now and it is growing worse"
 When the 18th amendment was pro. posed hr asse ftea the anti-saloon league promised that "it would reduce crime to the minimum" would large ly reduct the divorce evil" would abolish drunkenness wouli make for business prosperity by including the earnings of the industrial classes cants'' and would empty our Jalls and to go into homes Instead or intoxi- 
 After four years oi experience" he ! said, ''wo find that not one single | promise made by the proponents of | prohibition has been kept Crime has forty per cent, dHorces in | some 50 cities have increased 35 per cent and murders ha,c increased 70 | per cent. And worse than all the calamities that have happened since i Inc Volstead act is the fearful record . of the dope fiends, or narcotic addicts, now numbering nearly a million vic. inns as reported by the highest medi- gal experts.
 Charging Representative UJshaw with ''skyrocket crstory" Mir. Sher- wood said his Georgia colleague had failed to point out a sii gle benefit to ,itber an individual or the state be- ,ause of prohibition This bold atti- ude required the gall Ol a CuTmug- seon. and the audaciiy of a Chinese ,andit," he declared, characterizing Ir. Upshaw as the rei'ca nation ot he old Puritans of t1c t7th oentur' vho hung Quakers in Counectleut anf 1, turned witches in N.sss chusetts."
 End o Personal Liberty
 If the anti-saloon league shoaij induce this congress to airend the Tolstead act by adding tha I2 amend lents suggested l'v the gentleman rom Georgia" lle added. 'ft would be he end Of peraorai liberty in the 'nited States"
 The means employed in bringing bout the adoption of the 18th amend ient were described by the Ohio rep , esentatiye as unfair and disreputa- , le."
 Pointing out that Nevada with IT, | 07 population had an equal voice in , 1tifying the amendment with New { ork, despiie that the latter state has { population of 1o.3s4,144. he charged 2 nat the anti-saloun league is not a in its methods" But is win ictiYe. vengeful and mercenary." and I rat "by its drastic methods Of trying ] enforce the Volstead act, has hatch { l theblggest crop of law breakers a lat cter afflicted any community"