The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-01-01
League is the product not the cause of this senti-

2. He mentioned the resignation OF a UnlJeu
States District Judge, because not willing to 1ntlct
severe penalties upon whom he regarded as
having committed real crime by violating the
prohibition law. We have never heard OF any Fed
eral judge reSigning for any such reason There
does not seem to be any dearth of material for good
Federal judges and the enforcement of the Vol
stead law, though the Federal courts were never
more efficient than they are today.
g. Sometime ago the Manu. acturerS Record sent
out QUESTIONABLE to large number of the great
manufacturers and business leaders Of the country
covering practically all the greatest industries OF the
land asking their opinion of the prohibition law and
it's enforcement and also if they still in favor
of it or thought it should be repealed large num-
Der responded to this inquiry and of that number 80
per cent expressed their hearty approval of the law
and said that they believed 1t was OF lmmeaSurable
benefit to the American people, that it as well
enforced at the time of the writing could
ably be expected and that the one great necessity
was to continue to work and to the various
forces of government and public opinion to promote
the enforcement Of the law. Let Mr. Joy and those
who share his belief get in touch with the Manufac-
turers Record Publishing Company at Baltimore,
Maryland. I sure that great journal will be glad
to furnish them with the information and show
them most impressive array Of opinions from bust
leaders of the country and an overwhelming
unannity of sentiment against Mr.. joys position.
Again. Mr.. Joy may be great automobile manu-
facturer, but we cheerfully put against his
statement the work of a still greater one who
has dealt more largely than Mr.. Joy with labor and
finance, Mr. Henry Ford said in article which
appeared in the September number of the Pictorial
ReUieW:
For myself, if booze ever comes back to the
United States am through with manufacturing"
ST would not be bothered with the problem of
handling more than 100000 men and trying to pay
them wages which the saloons would take away
from them wouldn't be interested in putting auto
mobiles into the hands Of a generation soggy with
drink"
"When men drank two CT three days a week in
dustry had to have 10 or 12-hour day and six or
seven-day week. With Sobriety the working man
can have an eight-hour day and a five-day week
with the same or greater pay
Mr.. Ford further says, Prohibition is effective
with SO per cent population Personal liberty
is SO much increased by the nations emancipation
from alcoholic addiction that it is childish wlful-
ness to talk about infringement of rights. believe
in personal liberty, but in my long observation
have never seen beverage alcohol do anything but
destroy personal liberty"
Again, Mr. JOY says, prohibition killings and the
enforcement methods practiced by government Of
f1calS are SubverSiVe Of constitutional principles
and the Federal government, with it's hair-trgger
gunner and the slaughter of innocent Victims is
setting an example for holdup men, murderers and
houSebreakerS"
An examination of the exact facts fail to give any
support to the hair trigger" opinion expressed in
his article
In the Congressional Record, of June Il, 1929 is a
complete list Of all prohibition officers killed and all
persons killed by them, with a detailed account of
the facts in the case.
The following facts taken from this Record re-
ferred to will show how innocent" they were: Of
the 155 killed, SIS shooting at the Federal Of
fcers when the officers began to Shoot 10 others
gagged in shooting with the officers 80 others pulled
their guns first but the officers better Shots IL
others made attempts upon the lives of the officers
with other instruments than guns. Most of the
others endeavoring to escape. In 149 cases of
the 155 the innocent citizen" was known to be a
bootlegger.
Among the six innocent parties killed. one was a
boy who was around the still when it was being
off tI1o fcrof opd