Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-17 | Page 2 | Rabbi Scores Prohibition as Moral Mistake

RfJIDI SGORES - -PillBITION AS MORALMISTAKE Leader of Milwaukee J Jews Declares Volstead Act an Accident Engendered Engen-dered by World War MILWAfKEtt. Wis.. May IT Cnquallfied recommendation for modification of tha Volstead act. Rabbi Samuel Hirahberc one of the leaden of the Milwaukee Jewry, declared last filch, that prohibition haa ' been a eerioua moral BilatAke. Prohibition came In almost entirely en-tirely aa an aoddent. begotten of passions and prejudlcea engendered engen-dered In the World war. Rabbi Hlrshberf aald. Hirahbere; declared that he has little doubt that prohibition would nerer have cocurred had the former brewer been Frenchmen or EnfHshmen by ancestral derive- i tlon Instead of Germane. The 1 brewtna; . Industry In this country j waa almost exclusively In the handa of persona of German origin, and one of the methods of displaying display-ing loyalty to America, and an-; an-; taa-onism to Germany was to ban this industry ao closely identified with.. prso!.i,aJeu he declared. Prohibition has been the source of the moat shameless corruption and hypocrisy; It haa brought law Into moat grievoua disrepute; tt haa failed nototionely In exterminating extermi-nating drunkenness; It haa fostered fos-tered cla odea tine vice; It has begotten be-gotten the worst form of profligacy; pro-fligacy; It haa -challenged and awakened the appetite for spirituous spiritu-ous liquor In persons who otherwise other-wise would' have been etrangera to auch incitement; It has caused persons to drink who never before knew the habit. Hi rah berg aald. If there has ben a decadence In the morale of the young people, prohibition haa been responsible for that decadence, he declared.