New Britain herald., 1930-10-18
WHEELER ATTACKED
 IN LIQUOR DEBATE
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do on every important matter"
 Never Fair Trial

do on every important matter"
 Never Fair Trial
 Nowhere in this country" argued AIr, Chapman, was there ever q fair trial of prohibition over long per iod, so there is no way to judge what real benefits there might be in pro hibition. Nine states passed dry laws prior to the wartime prohibition. Take Maine. the oldest state with a prohibition law. The people never wanted that law, but the legislature was bullied into passing the law and it stayed on the statute books.
 Kansas really tried to be dry, but the state was not successful until 25 years had passed. North Dakota was fairly dry, but that state has only 100000 people, of which only 65,O0O live in the cities and the rest on farms, These farmers have their cider, which is intoxicating In Far go, two arrests per % persons are made annually for breaking the dry laws.
 Tn Oklahoma the case is deplor- able. When the state came into the Union, 1t was dry, on account of the Indians there, wards of the govern ment. Oil was discovered and now Indians sit along curbstones waiting for their favorite bootlegger. They get all the liquor they want. and if the Indians get it, the white people there can get it, too.
 The entire South is dry for only one reason. the Negro. They try to prevent the Negro from getting rum. He does not like beer. He wants rum. The whites say that they can have all the liquor they want but the Negroes must not have it. The Ne groes then began to make their own liquor from rotten bananas and oth- CT fruits.
 "Pussy Footing Fools"
 This all proves that no state has had a real fair chance to prove that prohibition is really beneficial. Out of B dry states before 1920, only two were really dry, Kansas and North Dakota. The amendment was put over by pussy footing fools.
 The traffic in liquor is not curb ed. It costs the United States moro than a billion dollars every year. and every man on salary is helping pay this huge deficit.
 Gan anyone here tonight who was under IS when the 18th amend ment went into effect say that he ever saw high school boys carrying hip fiasks and girls smoking cigar cites? In every high school today most of the boys have hip flasls and most of the girls smoke cigarettes. They go out on necking parties, too.
 Men today make their own hooch or buy from bootleggers. Is it any wonder that their sons break laws when the fathers set an eX- ample of law breaking before them Why do the children do it? For the same reason that Adam ate the for bidden fruit. It tasted sweeter.
 Amendment Father of Crime
 "1 charge that the 18th amend ment and the Nolstead act are the parents of bootleggers, rum runners and hijackers and all of the present crime in this country. Do you believe that things are all right now, or dc you believe that these laws should be repealed ?"
 Mir. Bockman, in defending the negative side of the question. and upholding the 18th amendment and Nolstead act, declared that many be- ,,-1 on us.''
 You remember the days when we were asked to not eat wheat, eat meat and use coal, during the dark est days of the war. Everyone obey. ed the command, from patriotic de sire to assist the country. War time prohibition was suggested This was to be for the duration of the war only, but the brewers and dstillers opposed this and agreed to abide by a decision in congress of full pro- hibition.
 We never had wartime prohibi- ton, for it started after the armistice was signed
 33 States Dry
 For more than 100 years educa- tion was used in showing the evil effects of liquor, and state after state adopted dry laws until 33 had be- come dry before congress passed the 18th amendment. This proves that something was not slipped over on the people. It was something bound to come because of its sensible cf- fleets. I agree that not all of these 33 states were bone dry. We have 33,oo0,0o0 automobiles in this coun- try. If one state is dry, how can any one prevent liquor from being brought into that state from wet state. with so many cars on the road? It would2 be impossible
 T want to inform the young gent leman that Wayne B, Wheeler was not fanatic. He was an able law yer. and could have secured SlG0.- GOO a year from many concerns but chose instead the job that paid but $6,000 year because he was fighting for an ideal His heart was in his work and he had a belief in the good that prohibition would do
 Considers State Control Evil
 The liquor traffic paid $2SS,000,. 000 a year into the L. $, treasury in stead Of a billion dollars, as my op. ponent states. There is now a de mand for q repeal of the 18th