| Show VETERAN SCORES UPSHAW ON PROHIBITION Eighty eight eight- Y Year ar Old jl Legislator Says Attorney y General Has Conceded Enforcement Has Failed WASHINGTON aTO Jan 19 Flour Flour Flourishing flask and assailing an empty the activities of the league and Representative Upshaw Democrat of or Georgia Representative tire tive Sherwood Democrat Ohio year old veteran of or the house houSA of representatives told h his is colleagues s today that up to 1924 I it is Is generally gen gen- eran emIly conceded that prohibition enforcement officers have failed Called to enforce the law and also charged I had in increased increased In- In that the ise of ot narcotics creased eased enormously since enact- enact ment l-ment merit of or the dr dry laws Declaring that when he was only 12 2 years ears old he had signed a tern tem pledge and nd would vote for forno forno forno no law which tolerates Intoxicating liquor as a beverage he Insisted that prohibition has failed to prohibIt prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit although It had cost the taxpayers tax tax- payers Myers ayers over a thousand million d dollars In revenue in the last Jat two j years s CO CONCEDED CEDED FAILURE Attorney Gen General ral Daugherty Daughert concedes the failure 1 he said The Tho president concedes the failure to enforce the law when h hI asks for foran forat an at appropriation of or by to build a a. fleet of or vess vessels ls to enforce the l law w on the Atlantic co coast st only He cited figures to show th that t there was a mounting consumption of or British liquors in the United States placing the 1923 exports from that country at gallone gal gal- gal gallons lone lons compared with gallons gal gal- lons lors the year ear previous Since the passage by congress of or the act said Mr Ir Sh Sherwood there has Jias been a largo large increase in booze drinking among young oung men and young girls girts It Continued on page 2 t HOUSE VETERAN Continued from page 1 has become a menace to orderly society Young men who never ne indulged in liquor before are now carrying flasks In hip pockets loaded loaded loaded load load- ed with moonshine or 01 bootleg I whisky and young girls are In Induced Induced Induced In- In to drink the vile stuff in inI I dance halls and automobiles parked along lon lonesome soine roa roads ls It Is a moral menace now and It Is growing worse ors e. e When the eighteenth amendment was proposed he asserted the league promised th that t it would reduce crime to the minimum minimum minimum mini mini- mum would largely reduce the di divorce divorce di di- vorce evil would abolish drunken drunken- drunkenness ness would make for business prosperity by inducing the tho earnings of ot the Industrial classes to go Into homes instead of ot into Intoxicants and would empty our Jails and penitentiaries After four years of ot experience he said we vp find that not one single promise made by the proponents proponents proponents pro pro- o of prohibition has bee kept Crime has increased 40 percent per percent percent cent divorces d in some fifty cities clUes have increased 35 per cent and murders have increased 30 per pel cent t-nd t And nd worse than all calamities cal calam that have happened since the act is the fearful record of the dope fiends or narcotic addicts addicts ad ad- dicta now numbering nearly a million million mil mu- lion victims as reported by the highest medical experts CALLS UPSHAW PURITANICAL Charging Representative ve Upshaw with skyrocket et oratory Mr 11 Sherwood said his Georgia colleague colleague col col- col- col league had failed tailed to point out a single b benefit to either an Individual Indi vidual or the state because of ot otI prohibition This bold hold attitude I required the gall of ot a curmudgeon a and d the audacity of ot a Chinese bandit ban- ban dit he declared characterizing Mr Upshaw as the reincarnation of ot the old Puritans of ot the seventeenth seven seven- seventeenth century who lio hung Quakers In Connecticut and burned witches in Massachusetts If It the league should induce this congress to amend the act by ly adding the twelve amendments suggested by the gentleman gentleman gentleman gen gen- from Georgia he added It would be the end of ot personal liberty In the United States I The means employed in bringing about adoption of the eighteenth amendment were described by the Ohio representative e as unfair and disreputable Pointing out that Nevada e with population had an an equal voice in ratifying the amendment I with New York despite that the latter state has a population of I he charged that tho the league is Christian In its methods but It Is vindictive I vengeful and mercenary and that by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the act has hatched the biggest crop of ot lawbreakers lawbreakers lawbreakers law law- I breakers that ever afflicted any community |
