Show SHERWOOD'S SPEECH SPI CONGRESS IX IN CO GnESS' GnESS 1 Isaac Sherwood was a brigadier I general in the civil war He is now i 1 in co congress gress and made a speech ch on prohibition the other day He Is a temperance man and signed pled pledge go 76 7 6 years ears ago He lie Is now 8 years old and amI a vigorous virile l man Iran Here are s some ome ne of the tho things he he said in congress concerning prohibition Crime Crim has has has increased ased 40 40 per cent Divorces in some fifty cities have increased 33 per cent Murders Murders Mur Mur- ders have hav increased Increased 40 per cent Nearly a million pe people have become narcotic friends The act has cost 9 over er a a. a billion dollars dollars in I I I I revenue in two two years it has nas in increased Increased increased in- in creased the consumption of red In liquor and and filled tilled all the jails and pe penitentiaries It has more more than doubled the waste In the federal courts It has raised up an army of lawbreakers and h hypocrites s. s It Jt has laird faUd to show one moral or economic benefit to society to business or to the federal treasury After four years of or attempting prohibition enforcement let us J see what the ha harvest vest Is 18 First the death deathe I list is appalling From estimates I gathered from reliable newspaper i dispatches over persons lost their lives from poison loison liquor during during dur dur- ing ng the past two years The number number num num- i ber her killed In conflict between prohibition prohibition pro pro- agents and bootleggers and citizens is 1120 making 2410 killings kill kill- ings lags for two years ears This is more loss of life than were killed limed in battle battle bat bat- bat I tle tIe in the seven years war of the I American Revolution the war with I Mexico and the Spanish-American Spanish war all told The Canadians have I been slow to adopt prohibition but 1 swift to get rid of it after fitter unfortunate unfortunate experience The administration is calling for I 2 20 million illion dollars to build a fleet of I war vessels to stop rum running along the Atlantic coast In III the meantime what is being done to protect the miles of ot boundary line Une r th the United 0 States and andr Canada or or the 1600 1500 miles between the United States Mates tates and Mexico co jl Nothing because nothing can be done Stopped the importation of or intoxicating liquors on on the tho Atlantic coast if stopped will be hailed by our great army of home bootleggers i with delight It means sh shutting out the best quality of imported liquors J and giving iving the bootleggers a larger demand for homemade undertakers under undertakers 1 saloon anti takers taker's delight The league in its its- its drastic drastic methods of or trying trying trying try try- ing to enforce the act has hatched the biggest crop of law lawI lawbreakers lawbreakers breakers that ever er afflicted any ny community com community com com- from Crom the Pharaoh of the to Pussyfoot Johnson |