The Kusko times., 1926-06-05
Maryland (Mr. Linthicum).

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 Mir. Linthicum. Mir. Chairman, the strong objection of the people of my state to the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead Act is that they feel it is an encroachment upon the rights of the States and the liberties of the people as reserved to them under the Constitution. It never had been con- templated by the forefathers that an amendment would be placed in the Constitution, and upon that amend ment would be fostered law limiting them in their personal rights and ib- critics, sumptuary law, which largely interferes with their domestic happi- ness and contentment. For this req son the people of my State are op- posed to the child labor amendment, which is along the same line and upon which law as drastic as the Eolstead Act could easily be enacted. We feel that those in favor of prohibition have overstepped the lines of disere- tion, that the law and the amendment has been shown by various documents and statements and innumerable sta tisticS to be broken down. Nc dne win deny that there is more drunken ness in the country today than there ever has been in it's history. The sta- tistics read by the gentleman from Massachusetts show that even in At lanta, the home of the great propon- ent of prohibition, MT. Upshaw, ar rests for drunkenness and disorder have increased.
 The Congress has pass edbiIls ere ating large number of new Federal judges, all because the Volstead Act has caused such vast number of ar rests that the Federal courts are to-I day largely engaged in trying liquor violation cases. Not long ago 1 read an article saying that Fort Leaven- worth prison was so overcroWded that the superintendent had to place cots in the corridors, and cells which were previously intended for only one prisoner now hold two and three.
 Vast numbers of bootleggers infest the country, making large profits, and violating the law often with the con nivance of men appointed to see to it's enforcement. Our once boasted Reve- nue Cutter Service, which some years ago was amalgamated with the Life Saving Service, and is now known as the Coast Guard, is being largely Gt.I= | ized in the enforcement of the Vol l stead Act on the sea, and reduced to the humility of patrol service to prevent the admission of liquor into ! the, country. While we usually look ! upon the rum runners as those 1 boats desiring to bring liquor into the country, the truth is the rum run l ners" are now largely engaged in dis i tilling liquors in barns, garages and [ cellars throughout the land. The Gov ernment is releasing for medicinal i purposes millions of gallons of alco- hol, while the bootleggers are utiliz- ing it by removing as much of the | poison as possible, the balance of | which is being consumed by the drink l CTS of the land, and large number Of deaths are occurring throughout the country as result of the poison which is left in Government alcohol released by the Government, and and stills, more numerous than the old saloons, abound everywhere.
 MT. Williamson MT Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
 MT. Linthicum. I can not yield, as have only few minutes, as told my friend from Georgia
 MT. Chairman. It is therefore evil dent on every hand that the Volstead Act has broken down that its object has utterly failed, so that not alone should those who are against the Vol stead Act and those who are in favor of honest prohibition devise some method which will bring us back to sane legislation and temperate habits I have always contended, and still contend, that if it be necessary we should regulate the sale of iutoxi- cants as they do in Quebec, Canada. We should ersort to education, be-