U.S. LIQUOR LAW

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1929, Page 5

U.S. LIQUOR LAW

A SCATHING DKXirXCIATIOX. (Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1(5. As a personal tribute to Senator Reed. .Missouri, the Senate abrogated an agreement to limit tlu* debate on •Jones Bill, increasing the maximum penalties for prohibition law violations to five years’ imprisonment, and permitted him to speak at great length upon prohibition. He took advantage of the opportunity to utter a scathing denunciation of the law. “It will not lie many years before the moral sensibilities _,of the American people will awake to the fact that the prohibition law is the worst crime in the history of the United States, and that the reign of hypocrisy, of false pretence and chicanery and fraud will have to come to an ignoble end. The day will come when judges who have made nullfactors of decent hoys and men. will sink 'into obliquy, which is a just reward of cruelty, oppression and wrong. T hold in abhorrence and contempt that it cannot he painted in any tongue. hv that a creature who to keep his place in this body or house of representatives will make felony out of that which lie himself connives at in his personal practice. Why do we cringe like cowards and go to heel like spaniels at the lash of some crowd of people who control a few votes.”. Air Reed threatened to publish the names of Congress men who vote dry and “drink wet.”