Show DJ DENUNCIATION ST PROHIBITION IN TIm TILE lower house of Congress last Monday Isaac Sherwood who l is eighty-eight eighty years of f age and for for six seventy-six years of his long life ute a tee to tee in a fervent fer for vent speech which held hl his h hearers bound spell declared the present law a terrible failure I Io To o give emphasis to his arraignment iio e 0 flourished an empty flask the I demand for which the speaker de- de I de-I lared had increased per cent I wring luring the past year lie Iro denounced prohibition as a colossal inequity branded Branded the saloon anti-saloon league lead lead- irs rs as crime makers and political parasites and made the following Charges barges against tl the o so-called so of ot to-day to b f rl Jia increased 40 per por cent J Divorcee DIvorced in some somo fifty cities I. I reported ed have inc increased eased 33 per per cent j Murders have have hare increased 40 per cent I Nearly a million p eople have 1 become fiends s. s Over persons have died from from drinking poison liquor in 11 two years year I More than persons have II been killed in conflicts between prohibition agents bootleggers and citizens If The act over over ov- ov er or evenue revenue in two years au u IJ uIt It has increased of red liquor and nd filled hUed all j jails and penitentiaries r It has more than doubled the J I money waste in in the federal courts It has raised up an army of i law breakers and by hypocrites f I It has failed tailed to show one moral moral mor- mor j al or economic benefit to soci- soci I ety to business or to the federal feder- feder al treasury I In the presence I presence resen e of this damnable record it tt is amazing i i th that t any I proponent of prohibition should arise in this his his- tonic chamber and appeal for fora a continuance of f this colossal in In- In i l. l t i. i qui QUI t sald General Sherwood i t If tt |