Evening star., 1933-01-23

They will not be satisfied with 80 pei
cent beer. The lawless society element
will not desert their illegal cocktail,
and hard liquors.
"S. The bill proposed is designed
as certain of its sponsors have said
to be a model bill, to guide State
legislation in their regulation of the
liquor traffic. We believe the Cap
ital City should be model to the Ma
ton in every respect, but we cannot
believe that this city Is ready to take
the lead In indorsing a movement that
will inevitably debauch and degrade
the entire social and moral life of the
country.
80. We protest against the encour-
agement In any way OF the traffic in
liquor on moral grounds. Only misery
sorrow, poverty and disgrace have fol-
lowed in its wake. Those who are call
ing for the legalized sale of liquor we
gain or that they may satisfy their own
sensual appetites. They do not con-
template the inevitable ills that will
accrue to the general public.
40. We protest against this bill on
behalf of our children. The spectacle
of drunken men reeling through the
streets, so common In the old saloon
days. is one that decent people do not
care to see re-enacted. Our children
have not seen this since the Eighteenth
Amendment became law. We cannot
believe that it would be right to sub
ject them to it again.
al. We regard the attempt to put
through a bill of this character as
wholly premature when the Eighteenth
Amendment Is still part OF the Con-
stitution
For the sake Of our children now
living and children yet unborn, for the
sake of the weak willed individuals who
cannot resist the appetite, for the sake
of those now in dire economic straits
who will be infinitely worse of with
free flowing liquor, for the sake Of our
Nation and the future years, we make
today this emphatic protest against
this or any other bill which would le-
galize the sale Of beer. wine. or hard
liquor within the borders Of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Members Of the Resolutions Com
mittee included DR.. Frederick Brown
Harris. pastor of Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Col. Tufts.
Conditions Improved.
Representative Moore, in his address,
declared conditions were much improved
under prohibition.
THE eighteenth amendment got rid
of the saloon" he said. You don't see
as many drunken people as you used to-
Prohibition is the best system ever
developed and We are going to support
it until something better Is offered"
The Ohioan said the system in this
country was superior to the methods OF
liquor control in Canada or Sweden. He
charged that the vets were trying TO
draft bill in such language that it
would be impossible to test its con-
stitutionality.
Representative Greenwood. while ad-
mitting there is great deal of honest
doubt" concerning the enforcement OF
prohibition, called on the District to
resist the effort to "foist beer bill
upon you" This city, he pointed out,
has different status from the States
which had the right to make laws OF
their own, for the District has no laws
except those enacted by Congress.
DR.. Rasmussen said he was en-
couraged because the Black bill lis SO
desperately bad" If enacted into law,
he predicted there would be such a
storm of protest as would make the
public uprising against liquor before the
eighteenth amendment seem like a pass
ing breeze" He also attacked the argu-
ment that the law should be repealed
because it was not obeyed.
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Mrs. Nicholson said women who had
no voice in the National political con-
ventions have already started revolu-
tion in IS States of the Union" Dis
trict residents, she said, 'are right in
opposing the beer bill. for We all re-
member the beer gardens. the cheap
pool rooms, the dance halls and the red
old days and which would reappear II
beer is legalized in the Capital of the
Nation"
George Otis Smith roundly scored the
saloon. which, he said. never was law
abiding" He characterized it as the
"insidious enemy of home and industry, y
and the recognized enemy of school
and church" Declaring there never
was model saloon" the speaker said
he knew three kinds. bad, worse and
worst"
Mr.. Otterback predicted the return
of the saloon would increase, rather
than decrease, the problem Of crime
Referring to an investigation he said
had taken place in 1904. the speaker
said there had been found in the five
blocks between the White House and
the Post Office 102 unlicensed liquor
selling establishments, including nine
speakeasies In the same block as No. l
Police Precinct. He referred to the
bonus army in Anacostia, declaring
that had there been saloons in the
city during that time "it wouldn't have
been possible for a human being to
be on the streets"
fore and after prohibition, declaring
the contrast made it worth while liv-
ng today" He scored the Black bill as
unconstitutional" and declared men,
bers of Congress who vote for 1t would
violate their oath. with the eighteenth
amendment still in the Constitution.
Miss Hayward read as message
from her aunt. Mrs. Fisher, testimony
which Mrs. Fisher recently presented
to the House committee during hear
ings on the beer bill.
Stormy Protest Forecast.
Mr. Lyons, representing the Chris
tian Endeavor, said thousands of
young Washingtonians would rise to
protest" the Black bill.
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., was given
an ovation by the audience when he
was introduced on the platform by
Chairman Ellison as the "noblest
Roman of them ALL"
Others who were introduced but did
not speak included Representative ].
Howard Swick of Pennsylvania; DR.
Henry S. Jacoby of Cornell University,
Andrew Wilson, former president of the
District of Columbia Anti-Saloon
League; Gordon Barnes, secretary OF
the Committee of One Hundred; Canon
William Sheafe Chase, president of the
International Reform Bureau; DIR. Eu-
gene l.. Crawford, secretary of the
Board Of Temperance of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South; Mrs. N. M
Pollock. former president of the Dis
tr1ct OF Columbia Women's Christian
Temperance Union.
A seat in the gallery was chosen by
Or. F. Scott Mcbride, general super
tntendent Of the Anti-Saloon League
OF America, member of the Commit
tee OF One Hundred.