New Britain herald., 1930-03-19
Claims Need for Dry Law Is On
 Increase; Asserts "Antis'" Drive
 Has Swelled Ranks of w. (. r. U.
TAFT SAID DRY
 LAW 'GL0R|0US,,
 BROTHER SHOWS
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Continued From First Page) bench, and yet The New York World published my anti prohibition letters written 10 Lincoln Ca dry of New Havcn) before the adoption of the amendment and then nobody seem cd to take the trouble to publish my speech at Yale given after the amendment was adopted.
 But the result is glorious anG points the only way that VIC have tc work out the problem presented. The solution requires a great deal oi time and patience. The habits of ar important section of a congested part of the country can not be changed over night or in years. The reform and the adoption of society to that at which the amendment aims must be gradual.
 Corruption Also flinders
 "The temptation of corruption will drag it out. While looking ahead al the amendment I despaired of any success. l really think that it is pos siblc, if we keep at if, 10 achieve a satisfactory result. The persistence with which the people maintain in congress a two thirds majority in both houses gives me much hope and I am inclined to think that this l,o Ia ta II-ntC f a consciousness that the only solu- ton is pressure in favor of enforce mcnt.
 T sec that the vets claim that the election was not prohibition vic tory. Well, one cannot argue with that view, and can only let those who believe it continue to believe it
 AS ever yours,
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. TAFT
 Taft, who wears q gray mustache similar 10 that of his late distin- gushed brother, is quite slender and angular He is feet, inches ir | height, and is GS years old. He was presented by Mrs. Lenna 1 Lowe 1ost, a member of the legis. lative committee of the Nationa, Association of Organizations Sup porting the 18th amendment.
 Reviews Wet Arguments
 Reading from a prepared state. ment. Taft said that according tc the testimony of those advocating repeal, "Our cocktail heroes are linked with the Christian martyrs the anti-slavery party. a connection that argues a lack of sense of hu. nor. One lady says that if thi. amendment stands we arc slaves An cXicted gentleman scolds pool President Hoover because he ha! had the assurance to eXhort tn, | people to obey the law and insis i on it's enforcement. Let us hope tha the president will watch his step. Most of the wet witnesses agre, that the people are drinking mor' than ever, while at least one rep rcsentative of the great industry o agriculture proves that the farmer arc being ruined because of the lacl of demand for the grains iron which the drinka bles are made.
 ''Thc vets have had the difficult, of facing the overwhelming testi mony of economists and heads o great industrial concerns to the ef feet that prohibition has been of i'm mense benefit to their industries an worth billions of dollars a year t the country, d sum so large as { make the cost of enforcement an the loss in taxes negligible. In an swer to this they have put on tn stand as one of their chief wit ncsses the head of a great organiza ton which has had prohibition c an exceptionally strict kind for of their employees since long befor the 18th amendment was adopted : It is a sore temptation to linge over his testimony, but Mrs. Straw bridge, the society leader of Phila delphia, has removed his scalp S neatly and completely that ther isn't q tuft of hair left to pull.
 Says Claims Exaggerated
 Witnesses, having in mind tha small but prominent parts of in people called society. say with grea cNaggeration that tho young peopl are drinking more than ever, whil at Atlantic City 10000 school teach CTS from all over the country tes tify that everything is cleaner an better in this respect than in tn old days. Incidentally. 10 or lc mi lion young people have come to tn voting age since prohibition wa adopted and yet the dry majorit in congress grows larger
 The vets, lie said, must com down 10 earth and see what til , facts arc and what the job tn; faces them is.
 "Thc first big fact in the case that at least 75 per cent of tf members of the lower house arc dr and that the majority has bee growing with every congression; ; election" Taft asserted.
 How do the vets explain it?"
 In presenting his late brother position in a. copy Of q speech b, fore the committee, Mir. Taft sal that the name of William II. Ia has been brought into this discu sion and always I think, on the W side.
 T have read numerous letters Taft said, "in the press and hay heard one or two speeches in whiC he is quoted on that side. I am n particularly impressed hy the u of the names of well known me for the mere weight of their autho ity, but when such authority
 claimed on exactly the opposite si, from that taken by the man
 question I feel resentment. I fe
 that people arc not playing u game.
 Opposed to Adoption $ My brother was opposed 10 q x adoption of prohibition. The rcas,