Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
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committee.
Representative Kitchener, Republican,
Michigan, had objected on the ground
that too many similar statements could
be presented.
"A resolution could be passed by
every group of four or five people who
got together in the name of the Lord
or the name of liquor and those resolu-
tions put into the record" Kitchener
said.
Urging a 100-year trial period for pro-
hibition, Josephus Daniels. former Sec
rotary of the Navy, told the committee
late yesterday that even if enforcement
cost $500, 900, 900 annually, 1t would save
the country $500 900, 100000 in the cost
of liquor.
He asserted that the vets propose
no workable" substitute for the pres
ent dry laws, denounced modification
and Government sale, said there was
less drinking under prohibition and de-
clared that the prohibition laws can
be enforced but have not yet been given
a fair chance.
There is but one alternative to ma
tional prohibition" he said. 1T Is the
return of the old saloon, with its heart
breaks. its product Of drunkenness and
poverty, its corrupt dominance Of city
government and its dictation Of poll
tics, often reaching to the highest Of
ficials of the State, with, ability to
dictate the nomination and election al
men to the Congress of the United
States.
Disguise it as you may, 1t is now
apparent that the clear-cut issue Is
prohibition, with its lack Of perfection,
or the saloon, with its trail of evils.
The man who opposes prohibition and
says in the next breath that he never
could tolerate the return of the saloon
either is practicing deception or he does
not know that, just as sure as night
follows day, the fall Of prohibition is
the re-enthronen1ent of the saloon.
There cannot be any other alternative.
The whole question must be considered
with that absolute premise and GER
tainty."
Modification to permit the sale Of
beer and wine, Daniels said, was advo-
Gated in the early days of prohibition
and has since been dropped by the vets
Government sale, he declared, is in OPP
position to American principles and Q
course that no Congress would ever ap-
prove.
With reference to Federal dispen-
aries, he cited the experience of South
Carolina and also project which was
begun and abandoned in his own city,
Raleigh. N. G. There, he said, q group
of citizens seeking to promote temper
ance and separate local politics from
the saloon influence, set UP diSpensary,
which, while highly profitable and pro-
ducing large amounts of money which
were devoted to the schools and other
municipal causes, was given up because
of "the very nature of the product sold
and its effect upon the purchasers"
mo way has ever been found of max.
ing and dispensing intoxicants that does
not debase and debauch," he continued.
1.-The evil of intoxicants is that they
intoxicate, and intoxication and drink
are the enemies of skill, thrift, the home
and the destruction of those who tarry
at the cup"
The former Secretary Of the Navy as
serted that he did not think there was
any one who believed prohibition had
been wholly successful, but added that
he was equally sure no one believed 1t
had fair chance in all portions OF the
country.
Well Financed Propaganda.
ION the contrary" he said, "it Is uni
Yersally admitted that the organized
opposition has resorted in season and
out, to well financed propaganda, to
advocacy of violation, to notification, to
excessive efforts to manufacture opinion
against its enforcement. Worse than
that: Some States have refused to as
sumo the moral obligation Of concurrent
enforcement Even worse: The Federal
Government and some other govern
mental departments have failed to use
the power ct their command to uphold
the Constitution and the laws OF the
country.
THE prohibition law can be enforced.
It only requires the viii and the courage
to say with slight paraphrasing to the
modern advocates Of notification what
Andrew Jackson said in one brief SEN
It has become plain now that as Gov
eminent we shall determine whether
law or notification shall be supreme In
the United States Of America.
"The advocates Of prohibition were
too confident that the people would &C.
cept the law as most Of them did in
1920 and 1921. They have made the
mistake Of not fighting as hard for
observance as for enforcement, as
preaching observance as securing legis-
lation and aiding in honest enforce
IlcHI. IIIcy HluSI QO UOJI1 IL Tie pSOplC
of this generation are educated on the
subject of the injurious effects of alco-
hol on the physical, mental and moral
man, and the authorities in cities, States
and at Washington are -equired to use
every effort to uphold the Constitution
of our country"
Another witness late In the day was
william S. Bennett, New York railroad
executive, who argued that there was
no place in the railroad world or any
other industry for those who drink. He
said that the dry statute was not being
enforced In New York, but that 1t was
being enforced as well as any license law
since 1880.
The drys also made public brief pre-
pared by DR.. S. E. Nicholson, chairman
of the National Board of the Society of
the Friends of Prohibition and Public
Morals, suggesting remedies for present
conditions. The statement has not been
accepted by the committee.
He proposed the immediate transfer
of the prohibition unit from the Treas
ury to the Justice Department, keeping
efficient prohibition administrators at
definite posts, urging the States to en-
liven enforcement and urging observ-
ance and enforcement upon the people.
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