New Britain herald., 1926-05-25
CITY'S MORAL TONE BETTER UPSON SAYS
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 works out better all along the line than the claim of personal liberty as now commonly enunciated and worshiped. All police regulations es- tablished by the congress and state legislatures are a recognition of this law. It is a pity that so many law yers and legislators are today found sneering at the eighteenth amend ment and avowing it's non-hinding force on their conduct on this in defensble ground. With this in mine we insist that both locally and na- tionally, enforcement must be in the hands of it's friends, and we note with much satisfaction signs in Washington that so far as the ad. minstration is concerned this is be- ing brought about. At this point we enthusiastically commend current announcements in our local press of the declared policy of our new police board head. and pledge him our best support.
 President Is Optimistic
 eve hereby announce our op- timism over achievements to date, and our conviction that the cause of total abstinence progresses. We do not believe that there is more drink ing. even in the wettest localities. than prior to 1919. We accept only a very small part of the wet propa- ganda as possessing truth and real merit. We believe that very much of the former influence of the public press, of our country, in forming public opinion. has been prostituted and lost because of wet money and wet zeal, and we stand amazed at the silly lengths to which portions of our public press have gone in this propaganda. Many of our vets need a light of some sort.
 twill you let me try to give you 3. kind of trial balance of the state of prohibition today. We list as against us, (a) former brewers and distiuers: (b) a few of their former employees, and some of their stock holders; Co many political ma chimes, national, state and local; (dl a large majority of the newspapers. both English and non-EI glish; (e) a lot of dyed -in-the-wool, lifelong drinkers whose appetitcs overcome their loyalty; (f) a large proportion of our so-called foreign element, some of them citizens, and many of them boosting as loudly as the rest of their patriotism, and who in truth are for the most part as loyal as the best of us; (g) many of our courts, on the principle that "he who is not with me is against me, in our opinion. We think that we have real cause for complaint that so many of our courts deal so light ly with offenders under the prohibit ton laws. All honor to those courts and judges who deal with such of fenders in harmony with the gravity of their offenses, and the apparent contempt which the accused hold for the laws and the courts. A recent report states that one accused was before our court for fifth offcnso, and another for an eleventh oftensc.
 "On the other side of the account we place: (a) the churches; (h) educators and instructors, in uni versailles, technical and public schools: (c) bankers; (d) insurance business. both fire and life; (e) the more influential labor unions; CD merchants; O the railroads; G) employers in general; (k) the ad- ministradon of the United States: CD the Congress of the United States; tnl) the legislatures of near ly all of the states; (n) most fath- CTS and mothers. And do not for get that the ultimate success of pro- htbiaon must come through per sonal self-control and good will
 T wish 10 most emphaticalIy call to your attention one section of the Volstead Act which in our judgment has not received the emphasis which it demands. Section of this Act reads: No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment 10 tho Constitution of the United States goes into effect manufacture, sell barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or
 
 cept as authorized in the act, and all the provisions of this act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use Of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be provontod' What d multitude Of the cayillings and quibblings ot tho vets arc silenccd by that phrase. Are you not proud that those words arc incorporated into the law of our land? Are you not proud that we can say to tho rest Of the world that the United States of America are organically in law bone dry? And our pride must he matched by our solicitudc that we bc dry In fact as well as in law
 We warn you that the frequent assertions Of inc vets that no one