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Show Church Department HE DESERET - NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBII 17, 1933 0.001. Ammo' the Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis infuriate us -- that tt has rejected 183 per Cent more applicants under thirty years of age because of alcoholic indub yenta since repeal of National Prof, f ' Repeal . , - Weigh6d And N. Morris By Samuel Voice ('The first-clas- poverty- , Col-yin- 's 474-48- so-h- Oar Fatal Bleeder But unfortunately, the dry. temforces, perance.loving prohibition of Ephraim. like the children turned back in the day of battle. We made a fatal blunder of supthe 18th posing that because Amendment was- written into the made the Constitution and supreme law of the land. that it would re. eine the respect and allegiance that such a statute is entitled to. We turned its enforcement over who are to political interested in getting primarily rotes to elect them. k 'wet" vote office-holder- s Found Wanting lf ', . one-ten- th counts as much in the ballot box as does a "dry" vote. Such officeholders are not going to offend "wet" voters by too stringent an enforcement of the law. They gave the "drys" the law to hold their votes and they neglected enforcing it to hold the "wet" votes. This of course made a farce Of the affair and resulted in , , ad to only on. and one-habillion, so that means that this one bootleg ring defrauded asthe government out of much revenue as all 450,000 legal drink establish- ' ments paid the government. That is how repeal solved bootlegging. Advocates of repeal said it - would place the liquor industry on. der lawful regulation, but January 3rd, 1039. Attorney General Cummings in his annual report disclosed that More persons were sent to , prison for federal liquor law vits, lations in 1937 than ever before In history, Prohibitiota's highest peak was in that hectic year of ,1931 when 6.045 were sentenced, but in 1937 there were 5,390, and that. too. ., in the face of all the present linen tics enjoyed by legal liquor. That is how repeal has promoted law ful ; regulation of liquor. : Advocates of repeal atilt would ,. of Temperance') The following redress by Mr. Morris. dila, 'Tho Nenional Velem." and known ea she robe mod Ix writing as "The Voir of Tool Pomace." lase ems beard on a mitten wide Monday Inviting. hookas, released locally by KSL. closed NATION AL Prohibition mom saloons and a large number of beeweries and distill.. cries. It stopped all beer. wine For fourand liquor advertising. teen years no big beer trucks rumbled over our highways, no beside stood liquor billboards them, and drunken drivers were newsa of. Not rarely thought land carpaper or magazine in the of alcoholic ried advertisements There were no flash. beverages. ing neon signs or big lobate glass windows attractively calling atten tion to an open drink establish ment; a family could eat Sunday s cafe luncheon in any or dining room without being am . barrassed by other patrons drinking beer around them. According to the United States Census Report the penal popula. lion of America declined 21.5 per cent the first year. Drunkenness dropped 84 per cent. Prison com mittments in the state of New York fell 45 per cent. in Indiana 59 per cent, in Connecticut 87 per cent. in Washington. D. C., 80 per cent, It closed two hundred and forty institutions that specialized In a coliolic piatients and that had treated hundreds of thousands of people daring legalized liquor. Sixty eight Neal Institutes which had treated 125,000 pat lents closed within two years. Of fifty Keeley Cure Institutes only one operated National Prohibition and it during had as few as a dozen patients. In the Bellevue Hospital, New York, there was an 81 per cent decline In alcoholic patients during the first year of National Prohibition. The Washingtonian Home in Chicago. which for several years had averaged 000 patients annually, 50 afflicted per cent of whom were had with delirium tremens. only 125 patients in 1920 and only 3 of those had delirium tremens. Moreover, in 19 great American cities, each with a population of 300.000 or more, deaths due to alcoholiem decreased 83 per cent. Among the millions of policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. the alcoholic death rate fell Dorn 4.9 to 0.8 of one per cent the first year of NaAlcoholic in.: tional Prohibition. to the New sanity cases admitted York Hospitals decreased the same cent to 12 per year from 5,4 per cent per 100.000, and they decrees. ed in Massachusetts that same year over tie per cent. Paupers in the Chicago poor houses .discreased 25 per cent. In Boston Almehousee 67 per cent. and in, the Municipal Lodging House of New York 90 per cent. Evangeline Booth, who has follow. ed the lurid trail of booze around the world, taking care of its -stricken victims, has declared that 3 out of every 4 cases of povfor cared by the army were erty caused by drink' before National Prohibition but only one out of ten during National Prohibition. These facts Sr. quoted from of Dr. D. Leigh pages historical book. 'Prohibition In the United States." Hut these statistics on crime, drunkenness. alcoholic Insanity and poverty tell only a small part,- Bank deposits of the story. mounted. Farms and homes were Education bought and improved. Full spread., Churches sprang up. took the place of beer dinner pails Wives rejoiced over buckets, husbands. Happy little chit. dren swung on yard gates watchreturn at the for their fathers' ing close of the day. This nation en . tered upon the most glowing period of her economic history. hibition Furthermore, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ratio per 100.000 of the popula- tion charged with intoxication war- -. 102,6 per cent more in 1930 than in 1933 and "drunkenness" ranked first among men and ',rood : cause as women the among :for arrest. :- , Advocates tie repeal promised upon their honor to help protect states against the Importation .' dry r ot intoxicating liquor into those .. states when it violated state creole. , tions. Exactly the opposite has been practiced by them. Every year. the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit has lw sued thousands of retail liquor. licenses in dry states without one word of protest over the radio or through the press from him who voiced that solemn pledge et de protection. Advocates of repeal said the saloon and its attendant evils would Pot be to return. We had.. " 177.000 permitted open saloons in pre-protion days but today we have 4tio.... 000 cafes, filling stations, hotel bars. dining rooms, cocktail lounges, beer taverna. and hot dog ,tandot rot. ' and graft growing up corruption about the Jaw like crab grass, cockle burrs and sunflowers in a neglected field of corn. Now the law itself no more created the corruption and graft than corn stalks create crab grass, cockle burrs, and minnow. era when a farmer neglects to work his corn. The principle of prohibition is right and the law was all right, but its enforcement. vested in the hands of office-holing, politicians, was a separate matter. The fault lay In the enforcement ageeicies and not in the law. Then., too, the drys went fishing, shelled peas or listened to the radio. Instead of militantly demanding that the law be enforced, This combination of circurn. led to repeal of the leth Amendment and the 'tient of legalised liquor December . , ' . - ' - : - ". , hibi , - - --:- - , , d. vote-seekin- - I , , - , 5, 1432. The Faller. of Repeal Advocates of repeal urged it as it recovery measure, declaring that revenue from the sale of Wean& ed liquor would lower taxes, bal and the federal budget and reduce the national debt. Nobody's taxes have been lowered. in fact. the United States Chamber of Commerce in its report in 'January, 1938, showed taxes to be 35 rent higher than in 1932. We per received less than two billions of dollars in liquor revenue during the first four years of repeal and our federal budget lacked two billion. eight hundred million dollars of being balanced in 1937 alone; the national debt stands today at over 37 and billions or approximately twice what it was on the advent of repeal. Advocates of said it stop refal but de- spite the of securing legal liquor, which cot, thinly would reduce the occasion for bootlegging. the federal agents apprehend 15,000 to 16,Mbootleg, germ annually and in December. la37. In the city of New York. a wet city.' In a wet state, t 1 one-quart- wld surrounded by other wet states 'with on legal every street corner liquor be people were Indicted for operating one of the biggest bootleg liquor rings ever ap, twehended- - Press reports state that It had defrauded the government out of $1.800.000 dollars in therpast three years. During those same three years liquor revenue mount- -, ' create respect for law and reduce crime. of the 1;:frar..rilguaper alulornvnertrit gatiom who' is certainly in a position to know and whoscauthority cannot be questioned. speaks of the past three years as the "most ter, rib's period of criminal history In the life of America." Advocates of repeal said there would be less drinking with legal liquor. but beer consumption has increased 700 per cent, distilled ' liquor consumption 1,500 per cent 1 and vinous liquor consumption has increased 2.500 per cent under reo , peel. according to the World Out, for August. 1937. look Advocates of repeal said it would , reduce drunkenness and promote temperance among our ?Guth, but , Wilful Oin "Unpardonable IN, if men sin after - , . - - wilfully they have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for lodgment and fiery indignation to tome. which shall devour these adversaries. For he who despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much, more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who bath sold his brother. and' denied the new and everlasting covenant by Which he was sanctified, calling it an Unholy thing, and doing dpspite to the Spirit of grace, And again we say unto you,,, that inasmuch as there is virtue In us, and the Holy Priesthood his been conferred upon usand the keys of the kingdom have not been taken from us. for verily thus saith the Lord. "Be of good cheer, for the keys that t gave unto you are yet with you"therefore we say unto you, dear brethren, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we deliver these characters unto the buffet ings of Satan until the day of redemption that they may be dealt with according to their works; and from henceforth their works shall be Made manifest. And now dear and well beloved brethrenand when we sak brethren, we mean those who have continued faithful in Christ, men, women and childrenwe feel to exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus, to be strong in the faith in the new and everlasting covenant, and nothing frightened at your enemies. For what has happened unto us Is an evident token to them of damnation; but unto us, pf salvationi and that of pod... Therefore told on even ante death; for '"he that attkht to save his We sludiJose jt,. end, ht:thet-.01Fehis life for My sake, and the Gospel's, shall find it," salth Jesus Christ. Brethren, from henceforth, let truth and righteousness prevail and abound In you; and In all things be temperate; abstain from drunkenness, and from swearing, and from all profane language, and from everything which Is unrighteous or unholy; also front enmity, and hatred and covetousness, and from every unholy desire. (Above taken front "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith," pages 123-9.- AGA of scandal. Some conduct obscene how mut provide gambling do. vices. They attract boys and girls of high school ages "Some clubs are Au 11 in name and speak. only. easy Proprietors own them. In Phut. burgh there are musical clubs without music Or musicians. are yacht clubs without even There row. boats. Their business is merely the sale of liquor call them chain hotels. restaurants, or speakeasiett, eventually they are saloons, and se. loons freed by wretched Drill clans from any decent control.' This was not taken from thequotation Union Signal, from the Dry Legion. from my own The National Voice, or frompaper. any other dry publication. This quo. tation was given from a nationally-knowpublication that stoutly championed repeal and voiced the promise that the evils of the old open saloon would not he permitted to return. But this description, depicting some of ' , lier's magazine in Its Issue of De.'. cembertih in commenting Upon our present liquor situation des dared: tany of theme stvealled hotels are merely dens of sin. Some of the restaurants don't bother about foot. Darbeette stands along the highways are also sources s our , drink establish. present-da- menta. reveal them lust as evil and debauching as the old open saloon ever was. This Is not the move ravings of some crank. $ have have presented you with facts. quoted you unquestionable author. ity for every one of them.. ; did not create these facts. I am not for them. I have responsible merely gathered and tabulated them and presented them for your hon. eel conskieration. You may deny them, you may shun them, you may ignore them, you may forget them. or you may frankly face them and adjust your position to them, but facts ;hey will remain cold, hard feat They portray the folly of , long-haire- d 11 ' .; - , . peal., It has Sailed to tower fares. It has failed to balance the fed. eral budget. It has failed to reduce the sue, done! debt. It has failed to flop bootlegging. It hae failed to control or ;ego. late the liquor treffic. It has failed to reduce crime Or create respect for law. It has failed to reduce or promote temperance. drinkins . - (Continued On Page COO , , , , , ' , - |