The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
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MR.. GALLIvAN RIDES HIS BEER
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Congressman Jimmy Gallivan rode
his rampant beer key through a
speech Saturday in which he deyas-
tated the vocabulary with his denun-
citation of the Volstead law and the
general attitude of the government to-
ward enforcement. The answer to Mr..
Gallivan, made by himself, was that
the prohibition law is an entire fail
ure. In this, the congressman from
Massachusetts, picked a lone case,
where money was spent W prohibit
tion agent to "get" a hotel and we
shall agree with him, at the begin
ming, that the incident was a foolish
exploit. But to judge the whole ques-
tion of the prohibition law by one
case is not conclusive, nor does it
make the position of Mr.. Gallivan and
his wet friends stronger. Rather, it
is confession of weakness.
Just about the time Jimmy" CALI
van was raging in the house, Satur-
day, the jury, trying the biggest and
most prominent bunch of liquor crooks
yet disclosed in the United States,
brought in a verdict Of guilty for %
of the crew. There was a. former u.
S. collector of internal revenue, a
state senator, deputy collector, a
gauger and Nick Goldstein, the man
who handled the Lowden money in
Missouri and wanted good federal
job from the senate but failed-all
from ST. Louis, Mo.
These men and others have beer.
convicted of crimes They siphoned
thousands of gallons of liquor from
barrels in a distillery in ST. Louis
and sold it. There was SIS a case
graft" money in it to the officials.
There was more than $2,000,O00 profit
in the deal. And the easy money
crooks have been convicted,
This was not case in point for
Mr.. Gallivan. He avoided that. In
Chicago there was also an indictment
returned against other prohibition Off
,cials for taking over 100000 in
brides. The men involved are rich
criminals. Mr.. Gallivan did not men
tion this.
Mr.. Gallivan says crime comes from
the Volstead act. He is not new in
that statemen So does the Chicago
Tribune. So does every brewer who
wants to get back in the business. So
does every former saloon keeper who
would like to have the bar rail re-
newed. So does every rich man who
has been disappointed about a case of
liquor because gunman has shot his
bootlegger. So do the several hun
dred men retained in the United
States by the French wine companies
who want the market here opened
once more. They all say the same
thing-"the law is a failure" It is
hard to know just who is retained as
spokesman for these wet organizations
or individual interests but the law is
gradually digging them out.
Have any of these vets tried to get
at the economic position of the United
States as related to the drink CUES.
ton? Why is the United States COM
handing the world in finance? Why
have savings bank accounts grown to
such enormous proportions and the
number of depositors increased 20
fold in the lsat FIVE years? What has
this to- do with the alternative fact
that we are not spending two billion
dollars a year on whiskey? We have
spent $500,000,000 on radio in four
years; have bought and owned ten
billion dollars worth of automobiles
in the same time. We can also gam
Bile that all the. crooks and profess
sional criminals in the United States
are vets. There are some others but
they have that kind of company as a
basis.-Janesvil1e Gazette.