Milford chronicle., 1933-02-03
HOUSE VOTES REPEAL
OF KLAIR LAW 24 TO8
AFTER JOINT SESSION

cent OF the tOtal) i'll favor OF repeal
of the Klair law. This was when the
President of the United States still
hoped for the success of national
prohibition.
"In 1892 the President himself ac-
knOwlcdged Il change of mind-his
hopes of 1928 had not been realized.
".The situation in Delaware pre-
sents a curious paradox. The rural
districts, by local option, have voted
to prohibit the manufacture and sale
of Intoxicating liquor. However,
these districts are renowned for the
production of peach and apple bran
dy and for the sale thereof to their
urban neighbors who gratefully ex
crcisc their legal right to buy and
drink.
AS long as this manufacture CON
tinucs, the prohibition of licensed
sale will mean nothing more than
the suppression OF open selling.
Spcakcasics and bOOtlcgging with the
evils that follow in their wake will
continue to be the disgrace of the
State.
"lf prOhibitory laws are to exist,
let them be aimed at those who use
liquor especially those who use it
immOderatcly and to the injury of
their fellow men. Unless such pro-
libitiOn exists and is supported by
a great majority of citizens, espe-
Cially by those who make and ell
force the law, there is no hope what
ever of enforcement of any law pro-
hibiting manufacture aud sale of in
tOxicants. When demand for liquor
exists, a supply will be found. A
legal supply, its manufacture and
sale is permitted an Illegal supply,
if il is prohibited.
Prohibition has filled our land
with hypOcrites who have joined
with those of honest intent TO fasten
upon us probibitOry laws that many
law makers themselves as well as
respect nor uphold.
Let us be rid of all of these laws
that we can not and will not en-
force. They are used against the
weak and helpless and are not ap-
piled to all alike. Uniform and hon
est enforcement Of laws that all re-
'spoct witt rid us or that form of dcxs
generation and crime against which
the President and his commission
have warned the people of the Unit
cd States"
Mrs. Meredith |. Samuel, repre-
scnting the Delaware State Hotel
Association, the next speaker for
the vets. said they stand for all
I,,.H Inn I.I ssufI
years our hotels have abided by our
dry laws" she said. land they have
suffered as Il consequence. We urge
yOu to repeal the Klair law" il
DIR. Charles p. White, who said he {
representa- only himself, followed.
lie said, however, that three-fOurths
of the Medical Association would
agree with what he had to say in
urging the repeal of the Klair Law.
lie said the American Medical AsSO- {
citation finds value in alcohol and 81 {
per cent of the doctors claim grain
alcohol is poor substitute for good !
liquor. lie said the Klair Law is an s
insult to the physicians of this State. |
I'VE should be allowed to practice
our profession as VIC think II ought ,
10 be practiced," he said, referring I
% the prohibition against physicians I
liquor for medical pur- /
poses. lie said 30 per cent of the
loctOrs in this State have asked that |
he Klair law be repealed. I(
Miss Jeanette Gckman, repre- d
icnting the WOmcn's Organization a
or Prohibition Reform, was the next Il
speaker. She said in part: C
"The evils under Federal prOhibi-
ion have caused increasing concern f
lmong many citizens since they first '
became forcibly apparent. A small Il
,rOup of women from several states j
anne TO time when they could no d
Ongcr endure inaction regarding the O.
menace of these evils. They met and d
ssued call to other women who II
lso. might feel a responsibility for
ctiOn When the abundant evidence G
rom all part of the country was II
il became clear that only il
" repeal of the Eighteenth Amend Il
1cnt aud return to the states their "
primer power TO control liquor. could n
he different conditions and local II
piuions in the As separate states, be tt
ccausc of support Of tho people. H.
"rhc makers Of the Federal Con g,
litutions had violated the Stamp m
ct and other laws which were OBJ ~
uxious to their ideas of liberty and d,
IstiCe; and after a revolution in
bich they set up a new govern ID
tent, wrote into the Constitution tl
hat they intended to be the pres u,
of simple, human cI
ghts. Some of those Constitution h;
akers and their liberty-l0ving sup ii,
Drters were the ancestors of many tll
IT'S here today, and they would &C
Irn in their graves if they know Ia
lat among their descendants arc ye
osc who insist upon bringing Fed sh
al police power into the states in il
! attempt to prevent any citizen, &c
,wever distinguished. however tenn i'm
,ratc and good and true and use la
!. from drinking anything that con- ma
ins more than Onc-lIalf of one per
mt of alcohol. W,
I'm this State, repeal of tue klair ST
W is the first step toward our re- mi
rn to a sense of proportion and tn
self-contrOl." 81
Mr.. Perry introduced Mrs. Ingram tn
the first speaker for the drys. She he
tinted a word picture of happy fol
me wrecked because of the addic- tic
N of the husband and father to til,