The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-20
.DEN0UNCE DRY . LAW OFFICIALS
vetefan Of House Says Liquor
 Drinking Since ProMbitioa Iheteases Is Moral Men&ce

| < WARRINGTON, Jan. I9. -Elourish. ling an empty flslk and Assiilins ths activities Of :; the Anti loon League, and Representative UpshAw, democrat, 6f 4eorcia, RerresentAtiYe Sherwood, democrat, Ohio, 1SS-yeafs6ld veteran ! of the House of Representatives, told his colle&suess today that mp tos 1924, 1t is generally con aeded that nr6hibition force. the law and alto eharxed that enormously since enactment. of the dry laws. !, s's l e,s !. ] | s Declaring that when he 1was only .12 years old he had signed temperafite pledge and. would '.vote, for. no law beverage.,' he insisted that .prohibi- ton has tailed to prohibit although it had cosf the tax payers "over a hun dred million dollars in revenue in the last two years.
 <. Attorney General DauSherty cen eedAd the failur3,' he said. s-The President comedies the failure to en- force the law, when he asked for an appropriation of. $40 100000 by Con. gress to build n fleet of vessels to eh- force the law, on the, Atlantic coast. Con.umption 'Iaersases ].
 He cited further ikaressto show that there was mounting consumption of British liquor in the United States. placing the, 1923 exportA from that country at 25,O0O. GOO gnllonss 3 con,
 palfa with 2:,00o. GOO xAilons the yea previous. -. VI
 Since the passage by Congress of the yolstead act" saitls Mir. !, Sherwootl, there has been a, large increaseAs if booze drinking among young men and young girls It has +becQfks a menace to orderly society. Yofhy men who never indulsed in liquor before are now carrying tlasks in his hip pockets load Cd with mobnshins or bootlss. whisky. and young girls. are induced to drink the vile stuff in dance halls and, auto mobiles parked along i0pesonle roads. It is~a moraf menace now and it is
 When the eighteenth amendment was proposed, he asserted, the anti saloon league promised that .sit would reduce crime to the minimum" would largely reduce the divofce evil" would abolish drunkenness, would make biisi- ness prosperity by inducing the earn. ings of the industrial classes to- go into homes instead-ofy into irtoxieants" and would empty our jails and peniten- tiaries." {. s,sit =
 Says Promises unkept. j i
 .. After four years of experience. he said. we find that not one single promise made bysthe proponents of pro hibition has been kept. Crime has in creased 10 per cent. divorces in some 30 cities have increased 35 per cent and murders have increased 40 per cent. And worse than alt the calami- ties that have happened since the Vol stead act is the fearful record of the
 dope fiends, or narcotic addicts, now numbering nearly million victims, as reported ey the highest medical ex- Charging Representative Upshaw with 'skyrocket oratory." Mir. 'Sher- wood said his Georgia colleague had failed to point out single benefit to either an individual or the state," be- cause; of prohibition, His bold atti- tude required the gall. of a curmuggon, and the audacity of 2 Chinese bandit he declared, ckaraeterizing Mir. .Upshaw as hthe re-mcarnation of the old puri. tans of the seventeenth century who hupgs Quakers tin Conhecticutt and DuTneu WIteneS m sMhSSacnuScttsi
 F Sees End Of Liberty" E ,@If the Anti-Saloon League should induce this Congress to ', amend the yolstead act by adding the F amend ments suggested by the gentleman from Georgia" he added, '.ity would be the end Of personal liberty in the United
 The means employed in bringing abouts adoption of the eighteenth amendment was advocated by the Ohio representative as ..'unfair and disrep- ,utAble,"S g 2+si !. Pointing out that :.Neyada with 77,- 407 population. had an, equal voice in rAtifSing the Amendment with New York, despite that the chatter state has a population of 103S4.144, he charged that r'.the kntt+Saloon. league is not Christian in it's methods but ''is vim dictife. venseful and mercenary" and That eby it's drastic methods of trying to enforce the . V0lstead- act. has matched the biggest crop of law break CTS that .evAr afflicted saily community
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