Show SOLONS STAGE DEBATE ON DRY LAW BIRTHDAY State Diametrically Opposite Opposite Opposite site Views on Status of Prohibition SHEPPARD SEES GAIN Bingham Declares Amendment Amendment Amendment Amend Amend- ment Losing Ground By LYLE C. C WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 16 16 Prohibition tion is 12 years old today and two senators senators senators sen sen- of opposing views observed the anniversary by stating diametrically opposite opinions as to the standing of prohibition before the bar of public public pub pub- lic lie opinion Senator Morris Sheppard Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Texas author of the eighteenth amendment told the United Press prohibition sentiment is constantly increasing Senator Hiram Bingham Republican Connecticut who sponsors sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors beer bills repeal amendments and other projects said prohibition was a proved failure I am very much pleased with the progress made by the prohibition cause since the eighteenth amendment amendment amend amend- ment meat became effective January 16 1920 Sheppard told the United Press Prohibition is more than holding its I own It is my belief that the prohibition tion laws are as well enforced today as any law against any other crime MAJORITIES MAINTAINED majorities majori majorI- The overwhelmingly dry ties tics in both houses of the congress are maintained unimpaired except for fora a small wet gain in the house occasioned occasioned occasioned occa occa- b by the growth of cities which have absorbed previously rural constituencies constituencies constituencies con con- as was the case In the Michigan district represented by former former former for for- mer Representative Grant Hudson When I begin anything I go through with it II For that reason I have pending an amendment to the Vol Vol- stead act which wiy punish the buyer with the seller of liquor and another which will make it clear that the one- one half of 1 per cent limitation tIon on alcoholic alcoholic alcoholic alco alco- holic content applies to beverages made in the home I believe the Vol Vol- stead act already alread covers that matter but it is not being so interpreted So far as the recent elections by-elections ar arc concerned in which a tion candidates have been successful I consider them to represent a Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- landslide and not wet vie vic tories Bingham had other On this twelfth anniversary of an unfortunate occasion he said one needs to look only at conditions as lS they exist today In cities big and little littleto to understand that prohibition has destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de temperance in the United States IS UNENFORCEABLE There is inescapable evidence that the act is an unenforceable statute It has had the effect not only of weakening respect for law which Is the foundation of any self govern ing st state but it has gone further to provide the enemies of society with a financial backing which enables them in many instances to challenge the law in the very halls of justice And now to these social ills there must be added a complaint that prohibition prohibition pro pro- is an economic injustice Itis It Itis Itis is a matter of record that the brewing industry was a tremendous contributor tor to the purchasing power of the United States and to the employment of its people There never has been devised means of compensating the federal government for the revenue legislated out of existence by the Vol Vol- stead act and the eighteenth amend amend- ment There is the consolation however that prohibition Is losing friends rapIdly rapidly rapidly rap- rap Idly and that is gaining gaining gaining gain gain- ing them I shall propose in the next Republican convention that there be bea a referendum on this subject I am I convinced that the party with a dI dry platform will be defeated in Novem Novem- ber |