The Washington times., 1924-01-16
RUM
BUYERS
REDS
Commissioner Haynes Tells
Anti-SaIoon League Well
to-Do Disregard Law

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Buyers of liquor were placed
In the same class with anarchists
by Prohibition Commissioner Roy
A. Haynes in an address today be-
fore the national convention of
the Anti-Saloon League.
Despite the difficulties con-
fronting enforcement officials,
Haynes declared, however, that
efforts to dry up the United
States in accordance with the
Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead act we're proceeding
satisfactorily.
Calls 1t National Policy.
unfortunately" Maynes said,
otherwise best citizens did not, for
a time, seem to grasp the fact that
the Eighteenth amendment estab-
lished a great national policy, and
that they were included in the pro-
gram. Many Of this group evidently
for a time failed to grasp the idea
that the question now presented is
the enforcement of the Eighteenth
amendment, which is a higher, big.
ger and broader question than mere
ly the prohibition questionable
question of whether we, as a free
people, can maintain and enforce
the provisions Of the Constitution
as they have written.
"The question involves the whole
| question Of Constitutional integrity,
of constitutional authority, Of the
ultimate success Of free government
itself.
Hits at WelI.TODO.
"At this particular time l believe
this call should be borne particularly
to this group of well-to-do and in
fluential citizens who have hitherto
seemed to regard their responsibility
for the observance Of this law light
ly. They have been setting exam
| pies of lawlessness that are per-
nicious. They would submarine re-
gard for all law. They would place
themselves in the same rank with
the men who carried the red flag
and used bombs. They are con-
sciously or unconsciously lining up
with the dangerous classes of the
republic. They are throwing fire
brands to the mob. Without their
patronage and protection, and the
example they are setting, the boot
logger would be speedily brought
within the control of the law, and
| go out of business"
"Any effort to repeal the Eight
eenth amendment will fail" Senator
Morris Sheppard Of Texas told the
convention.
ANY effort to repeal II indi-
rectly through statutes for light
wines and beers will also fail" he
continued, because the American
people have turned their faces to-
ward new and better day. and pro-
hibition is eternal"
"All the liquors now made in
clandestine stills or smuggled in
from other lands, all the liquor car
rled on hip pockets, grips and auto.
mobiles, Vended by bootleggers and
purchased by the rum-hounds and
cocktail fiends of so-called high So
ciety make an insignificant show
Ing compared to the volume con-
sumed in the days Of distilleries
and breweries." he said.
Senator Ferris Of Michigan eek
plained how the country was made
dry. Thousands Of men voted dry
who were themselves wet" he said,
out the demands of business made
1t imperative that they should pro-
tect themselves by voting dry"
Pussyfoot" Johnson declared
that friend of his tried for two
hours to get drin here; and he
couldn't find 1t. In that lengthy
tlme, twelve taxicab drivers were
implored to aid a thirsty rnau--but
they said they hadn't the slight.
est idea where any, liquor could he
had" That makes Washington
dry, "Pussyfoot" declared.
William Jennings Bryan an.
nounced that prohibition will spread
all over the world, In a speech be.
fore the board of temperance, pro-
hibition and morals of the Methodist
Church. The dry era in America
has come to stay, the Commoner de-
clared. The liquor law is enforce
able, and 1t will be enforced, he
asserted, adding that 1t was pretty
well enforced now
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell,
DR.. Clarence True Wilson. Bishop
William Nicholson, of Chicago, and
Senator Simeon D. Fess also gave
brief speeches.
Prof. Andres Osuna, former COM
missioner of education Of Mexico,
declared that Mexico would soon be
dry. He said that he was so GER
tain Mexico was going dry that he
would issue a challenge to Canadian
dry workers to see which country
could 60 dry first.