The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-06
North Dakota Farm
Depression Not Due
Dry Law, He States
fContint.nS from Da..e one,

fC0ntint'"S from D3.e onc)
whether this was not true and Burt
ness replied that the wheat surplus
had largely developed as a result of
propaganda put out by the govern
ment to bring about an increase in
wheat. acreage.
Burtness said q lot of the barley
crop was consumed by "nearbeer"
adding:
Anyone who says we had no wheat
surplus before prohibition. does not
know the facts. We always had a
surplus"
Questioned by Laguardia if corn
sugar production had not been in
creased. Burtness said that I'VE must
admit the fact that a lot of corn SUI
gar is being used for the illicit dis
tillation of liquor"
jam Causes Increase:
My friends in Iowa." the North
Dakotan added, ARE greatly interest,"
ed In having corn sugar used in jams
and jellies. It does. of course, go into
Illicit liquor"
"You don't mean that the tremend-
NJ increase In corr sugar is due to
increased consumption of jam in this
country. do you?" asked Laguardia.
BurtnesS replied he was willing to
face the fact of Illicit use of corn pro-
ducts but insisted there had been a
large increase in legitimate consump-
ton of the product.
The North Dakota disagreed with
Laguardia'S statement that real beer,
If permitted. would increase incomes
by using up more grain.
The witness argued the money
spent for beer would take much of
the grain producers income.
Catholics Defend Law
Patrick HI. Callahan. a prominent
Catholic layman from Louisville,
Kentuck. took up defense of the
eighteenth amendment before the
committee after BurtneSs with a
challenge to any one who sought to
align the prohibition movement with
| ProteStants alone.
He said the charge had been made
and still was heard that prohibition
was Professionalism and purposely
planned to interfere with Catholic
services by ultimately making it i'm
possible to offer up the sacramento
of the mass" This he denied as un.
true and said that as a Catholic lay
; man he held the same influence as
other leaders in the dry movement.
A letter from Monsignor M. F. Foley
of Baltimore, was presented by Gala
han who is chairman of the central
cooperative committee for prohibition
enforcement and general secretary OF
the Association of Catholics favor
ing prohibition. The communication
described the efforts of the anti-pro-
hibition group as a revival of the
whiskey instruction of 1894 on a
larger and more dangerous basis"
Foley Fiays Saloons
Monsignor Foley wrote that from
his experience before prohibition in
the Maryland city. that he had re-
garded the old saloon as 'lawless and
q menace to order. decency and NOR
atty" The letter added:
"The shouter for personal liberty
unable to deny that the old saloon
was q blot on civilization and a men,
ace to GOOD government. tell us that
they do not want to bring back the
old saloon but a heavenly resort where
angels might gather and men may
drink their fill of wheat they will and
not get drunk beat their wives. starve
their children or commit murder.
I'VE hear q lot of rot about the
bringing back Of light wines and beer
Is the panacea for the evils laid at
the door of prohibition and as the
great European promoter of temper
ance. Nonsense. The VETS today,
some consciously. some unconsciously,
are preparing the way for the return
Of the good old saloon with all its
horrible satellites.
Is Noble Experiment
Il believe that the 18th amendment
is what President Hoover declared it,
Q noble experiment, the most noble q
great nation ever tried to save its
people from frightful evils. I believe
the eighteenth amendment to be q
more noble experiment even than that
which began at Concord and ended at
Yorktown.
I'VE are now having on q larger
and more dangerous basis. the revival
Of the 'whiskey instruction Of 1874.
To my mind, President Washington
In s~uppressing the 'whisIey insurrec-
ton taught the American that this
union Vas no mass Of disorgani1ed
units, but had become q nation"
Cites Death Statistics
Callahan. chairman Of the central
cooperative committee for prohibition
enforcement and general secretary Of
the Association Of Catholics favoring
prohibition, presented statistics COM
piled by the census bureau In support
Of his claim.