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THE AMERICAN ISSUE Tape Three momly society 7 ORGANIZED IN SWEDEN MILLARD F. WEST MADE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER DEMANDS EVIDENCE ERE HELL 'ISSUE WARRANTS PROHIBITION CEASES TO BE A JOKE" IN EUROPE CATHOLIC CLERGY PROTESTS VIGOROUSLY VS. MQUTHIN6S OF CONGRESSMAN GALLIVAN Clerics, in Open Letter, Neatly Flay Noted Booze Champion; Gal-livans Prophetic Claims Challenged Light Turned on Misleading Statements Twelve Nations Frantically Combine to Combat Dry. Movement AVER. DRYS IGNORANT Progress of Pussyfootism in India Alleged to be Cause of Wet Outburst Bringing Disgrace Upon Catholic Church You have, we believe, publicly defended the Catholic Church against Some of her opponents; but do you know that the unutterable corruption of certain Catholic liquor politicians has filled with angry mistrust millions of our non-Catholic fellow citizens who did not know that the unscrupulous politican never had the sanction of his church while he prostituted his religion to his selfish designs by appealing to Catholic voters for support? Do you know that predilection for alcohol has been the source of a vast deal of poverty, degradation and crime among our co-religionists, who, when thoroughly sober, are known to be remarkably industrious, trustworthy and virtuous? Do you know that Catholic children, pauperized and orphaned through Boston and other eastern saloons, and adopted in so many non-Catholic homes in the far west, are getting scarce under Prohibition? Do you know that it would have been almost impossible for the Catholics of Cincinnati to maintan the magnificent Fenwick Club while hundreds of saloons in that city were a roaring success as so many poor mens clubs? Can you not realize that the Catholic Church laid one of the corner stones of the Prohibition structure, when she urged, through the Third Council of Baltimore in 1884, "all Catholics engaged in the sale of alcoholic drinks, to quit that dangerous traffic as soon as possible, and to make their living in some more honorable way.

Had we Catholics then heeded the appeals of our highest spiritual guides, the blessings of Prohibition would have come thirty ears sooner. Yours truly, (Signed) Rev. George Zurcher, President of the Catholic Clergy Prohibition League, Pastor of St. Vincents Church, North Evans, N. Y.

(Signed) Rev. C. P. Baron, Secretary of the Catholic; Clergy hibition League, Pastor of St. Bartholomews Church, Columbus, Indj Feb.

15, 1922. COOK COUNTY, JAIL HAJ3 NEW SUPERINTENDENT To Congressman Janies A. Gallivan. Honorable and Dear Sir: Your partisan and passionate tirade against Prohibition evinces your sudden fear that a sufficient number of real Prohibitionists in the Prohibition enforcement unit may crown the Volstead act with lasting success. Your silly claim that the ten millions asked for Prohibition enforcement is to support a pension roll for the most persistent and presumptious grafters that ever appeared before Congress, your assurance that Mr.

Nelson is ready to vote with his colleague, Mr. Volstead for any appropriation that will take care of the Anti-Saloon Leaguers who are still waiting to get on the pay roll of the Prohibition unit, and your accusing Congress appropriating tax money to an army of political pap suckers, are quite consistent with your erstwhile serene complacency while the Prohibition unit was largely composed of political heelers, cx-bartenders and suckers, as they were known in the palmy days of the saloon. This large "suefcer element in the Prohibition unit buoyed you up with illusion that Prohibition would soon break down. You prophesy the clearing of the Augean I beg pardon, the-Anti-Saloon League stable into which this House has been converted. The clearing has begun; and if you have the Irishmans ready wisdom, you will heed the warning of some of Napoleons men at Waterloo: Sauve qui pent.

(Run, while running is good). Your whining about ten millions being given to the Prohibition monster, shows that you have made the discovery that Prohibition has the irresistible sweep of a monster. Were not the idleness and inefficiency of the former saloon frequenters, (suckers, you would call them) in and out of political office, causing the country an annual loss of Were not $150,000,000 annually spent in saloons to bribe voters? And were not the bribe givers, elcted to office, gagged and bound from head foot to protect the most persistent, arrogant, defiant and organized army of law breakers that ever infested any nation? Were not $75,000,000 wasted every year in well-meant futile efforts to aid town, village, city, county, state and federal officials to enforce liquor and Sunday laws? Did not the saloons, as festering plague spots and brawling nuisances depreciate neighboring property by hundreds of millions of dollars? What about the billions of dollars worth of damage inflicted in a thousand ways by the liquor traffic upon the American people, regardless of racial origin that of your, own not in the least excepted? Are Any Laws 100 Pet, Efficient Arc you consciously in earnest when you say: The records of the courts, deny that Prohibition is or can be enforced upon all the people? Do not the same records deny that the laws prohibiting murder, adultery, theft, blasphemy, gambling, smuggling, arc or can be enforced upon all the people? Do you mean, perhaps, that our foreigners, who figure so largely in bootlegging, will never submit to Prohibition? In this case an effective remedy Ts available. The Volstead act should provide that any foreigner convicted of bootlegging, should be deported to his own country, and any citizen so convicted, should be disfranchised for ten years. The former is not fit to become an American citizen; and the latter should not be entrusted with civic or political responsibilities.

Harpers Wine and Spirit Gazette (London, England) for February 4, 1922, features a story under the caption Nations Fight Prohibition. Important Meeting iti Paris. The story is written by George Cecil, evidently a humorist. Mr. Cecil explains how the liquor interests of France organized for self-defense when Mr.

(Pussyfoots pamphlets first reached France. These pamphlets, says Mr. Cecil, were so shattered by, criticism that the prohibitionists believing discretion to be the better part of preaching, quickly called them in. This was just as well since the statements and arguments were more than ridiculous while the language employed was unintelligible. Mr.

Johnson entitled it French but no Frenchman could make head or tail of the strange result. 1 might have been Esperanto. However, these pamphlets of which no Frenchman could make head or tail so Jrightencd the French-booze interests jthat they found it desirable to safe-- guard wide-spread interests. The following is the rest of the story as told by Mr. Cecil: Consequently, the Commission Internationale D'Etudes Pour lOrgan-fsation Internationale dc Defense Contre les Prohibitions, consisting of delegates from no fewer than twelve nations, foregathered at Lausanne last September for the purpose of discussing the Pussyfoot manifesto.

One the 25th of January they again met in Paris, under the auspices of the Comitc International du Commerce des Vins, Cidres. Spiritueux et Liqueurs, which, by the way, was founded just twenty-two years ago. A programme definite and all embracing was then adopted, a programme which should have the approval of all who derive their incomes from the wine and spirit business. It deals with the question in its many ramifications. Several meetings were held by the delegates, all of whom agreed unanimously that should the extremists, by any chance, succeed in their fell purpose, society in general would suffer.

(Hie!) It was pointed out that every possible resistance 1 should be offered to a scheme which I opposes the legitimate interests ol millions, amongst whom the smallest, cabaret proprietors and their patrons might be mentioned. (Why mention the patrons?) Ignorance and fanaticism, declared the delegates, were not to be tolerated. One speaker laid special stress on the fact that excess iad ever been condemned by the trade; and strong exception was taken to the exaggerated reports spread by various prohibitionists. That these misguided people should not have informed themselves correctly was deplored. (Horrible ignorance!) The delegates also regretted the activities of the prohibitionists in the East, whose campaigns, it was observed, can not possibly do any good.

(For the liquor trade). Political, economical and social conditions, affirmed several speakers, must suffer if anything comes of the vaporings of the unco guid. Providentially, the natives of India. Burmah, Ceylon, Malaya, Java, Siam, Cochin-China, and other eastern countries in which the gospel of Prohibition is being preached, do not follow the drift of Mr. Johnsons arguments.

As to the tiropean exiles, the climate makes stimulants a necessity. Meanwhile, the commission has decided to organize a scheme of self-' defense against these mischievous agitators. The Comite International du Commerce des Vins, Spiritueux et Liqueurs, which has its headquarters In Paris, will give the matter its very special attention. Du reste, as our excellent friends here say, another conference is to take place a little later. I1 Prohibition Commissioner Haynes announces that Millard F.

West, former deputy commissioner of accounts, has been transferred to the Prohibition unit as an assistant commissioner, to have primary supervision over the particular problems arising out of the concentration program which has been provided for by an amendment to the appropriation bill which has just been signed by the president. The commissioner says that probably no man in government service has a more intimate knowledge of distilled spirits problems than Mr. West and lie is therefore especially qualified to enter upon this important work. DRY-CLEANING GOES CN MERRILY IN KEYSTONEDOM Raids were conducted in seven Pennsylvania towns in Indiana county on February 17 by federal Prohibition agents working under the direction of John Exnicios of Pittsburg, federal director. These raids netted confiscated liquor amounting to 300 gallons of whisky and 1,000 gallons of mash.

Five stills were also seized. The towns invaded were Indiana, Homer City, Clymcr, Yankcetown, Guthrie, Ernest and Creekside. EFFORTS RENEWED TO STOP Canadian Authorities Co-operate to Suppress Diabolical Business CLOSE EXPORT HOUSES Ninety Pet. of Contraband Booze Driven to Water Routes For Entry The federal prohibition department reports renewed activities in the northwest in the drive against smuggling across the Canadian border. Further conferences have been held with law enforcement officers in British Columbia.

These Canadian officers show a determination to cut off the supply of Canadian liquor at its source. Roy C. Lyle, director for the state of Washington, has been informed of a Canadian movement to abolish the export houses. In the past the chief duty of the law enforcement officers in British Columbia has been to see that liquor was kept moving until it was out of Canada. Much of this was billed to Mexico and South American countries, but it is agreed that this was only a blind and that 99 per cent landed at Puget Sound and other west coast points.

Abolishment of export houses, officials believe," will be a long step toward preventing frauds. Director Lyle reports that the county and federal officers along the boundary have the situation in hand and have driven 90 per cent of the booze running' tv water routes. Co-operation of the sheriffs along the lines laid out in a recent convention at Bellingham further safeguards the land routes, leaving him free to exert the major part of his force in the water campaign. REFORESTING HINDERED BY MASS. PROHIBITION Here is another horror of Prohibition.

P. S. Lovcjoy, writing to the Country Gentleman about reforesting work in Massachusetts, says this work is hampered by A nursery in which the trees for the work are grown, is at the state reformatory and the work has been done largely by the inmates of that institution. Under Prohibition there are so few inmates that hired help has had to be provided and there is lack of money for such labor. And so another crime is charged against Prohibition because it has reduced crime and criminals.

"LOADED CHAIRS VOGUE IN THIRSTY METROPOLIS In a New Yopk joint which was raided recently, it was found that all the chairs of the place were "loaded, and there was system about it, too. Red chairs contained red liquor, green chairs creme de menthc, and so on. The ingenuity displayed by these law breakers leads the Toledo Blade to conclude: The same brains directed in other channels would solve the gold transmutation problem in two hours, conquer Mt. Everest in a week, raise the sunken Titanic in ten minutes, invent a gasoline substitute with a week's thought, and have twenty-five cent limousines on the counters of every hardware store before New Years Day. BUCKEYE BOOZE PEDDLERS ARRESTED BY DRY SLEUTHS With the arrests on February 20 of four men in Columbus, Ohio, all employes of the Consolidated Drug Company of that city, federal Prohibition enforcement officers assert they have uncovered a plot to dispose unlawfully of alcohol valued at more than two million dollars.

Two barrels of alcohol were confiscated at the Columbus plant of the concern and special agents declare a carload of it was confiscated in transit at Chicago last week. Work of dry law field agents is curtailed in Virginia, says the Richmond Timcs-Dispatch of February 21, under edict of United States Commissioner Flegcnheimer refusing issuance of search warrants to enforcement officers without positive evidence of violations. Commissioner Flegcnheimer declared his action was a result of recent court rulings holding that a search warrant can not be issued unless there is sufficient evidence submitted under oath to the officer issuing the warrant to cause him to believe that there is reasonable basis to believe that the law is being violated. It is thought the matter will be reviewed with United States District Judge Groner in Norfolk to ascertain whether or not Inf concurred in the interpretation of the recent decision, SUBSTITUTE FOR VAN NESS MEASURE IN N. J.

HOPPER Hon, George S. Hobart, member of New Jersey Assembly from Essex county, introduced in the House of Assembly February 13 five important bills for the enforcement of Prohibition of the liquor traffic in New Jersey. These new measures arc intended to take the place of the Van Ness act which was invalidated by the recent decision of the Court of Errors and Appeals and the Elliott act. WYOMING PRDHIBITN CLANS STAGE SPECTACULAR RAIDS Moonshine Stills in Rock Springs, Wyoming, Draw Fire of Dry Sleuths DRYS BAG BIGr GAME Dry Forces Put on Continuous Performance in Dry Law Enforcement An United States marshall with 40 deputies assisted Federal Prohibition Director Jackson of Wyoming in raiding moonshine stills in Rock Springs recently. The officers gathered in several thousand gallons of liquor and 66 prisoners in one days work.

Sixty of these prisoners have pleaded guilty in the federal district court. The activities of the Federal Prohibition directors office for the state of Wyoming during the month of January with thre? agents operating resulted in fines collected, assessments levied, $156,000: making a total of fines collected and assessments levied of $170,550. There has not been a month since October 1, 1921, that the fines and assessments levied through the work of the Wyoming directors office did not exceed the operating expenses for an entire year. This is a splendid record and lays to rest forever the booze pleaders argument that the enforcement of the Volstead act is bankrupting the country, at least so far as Wyoming is concerned. However, Wyoming is not unique in that the enforcement office i.s more than paying its way.

Reports from practically every directors office show an excess in fines and assessments over the operating cost. DRY AGENTS MAKE BIG SEIZURE IN IRON CITY The Pittsburg Dispatch reports that 25 tons of material and apparatus used in the manufacture of home brew and intoxicating liquor including 275 copper stills of assorted sizes, were seized iast week in rittsburg by Prohibition agents. The contraband was the net result of a simultaneous raid by Prohibition agents of the main store and three branch stores of a Food Products Corporation. The corporation, agents aid, is one qf the largest operating in the east and has branches in New York, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Camden. It is said to be incorporated for $50,000.

They are distributors for a well known malt extract of which more than 5,000 cans were seized, said to be manufactured in their own distillery in Pittsburg. PROHIBITION ACT ISNT A SUPERSEDING MEASURE Judge John E. Sater of the United States district court, Dayton, Ohio, on February 20 rendered a decision in the case of United States vs. Alex Skilken, Dayton commission merchant, to the effect that the National Prohibition law docs not supersede or repeal the bottling-in-bond act. The opinion was given following a demurrer to the indictment against Skilken and a motion for a new trial which was presented by the defendants attorneys at the time Skilken was convicted of having had inernal revenue stamps in his possession with intent to defraud.

The bottling-in-bond act provides for the manufacture and sale by the government of strip stamps which are to be purchased by the makers of liquor from the United States; likewise provides a penalty for anyone having these stamps in his possession with intent to defraud. Skilkens motion for a new trial and the demurrer were overruled by the court National Society For Temperance Without Prohibition" it New Name MORAL SUASION PLEADED Hasnt Anything on United States in Respect to Temperance Fakes Creation of a new organization expected by its sponsors to have an important influence upon the development of the liquor question in Sweden has been announced, aecordng to a Stockholm dispatch of February 16. The name of this new organization is The National Society for Temperance Without Prohibition. Th founders say temperance can brought about by free will and moral suasion better than by obligatory measures. Among the organizers art Prof.

Svente Arrhenius, scientist, president of the Nobel Institute; Mr. Hjalmar Branting, wife of the Premier; and Selma Saferlof, Nobel prize winner for literature in 1919. Sweden hasnt anything on the United States in this respect. There are more than thirty such organizations functioning in this country and they al! meet with the complete approval of the outlawed liquor interests. In all probability the Swedish elctorate will be given an opportunity within two years to vote on the question of Constitutional Prohibition.

Sentiment for complete overthrow of the liquor traffic is strong and it is freely predicted that the drys will be successful. The liquor interests art exerting gvery energy to defeat Prohibition and tio doubt the launching of the above named organization is result of their efforts. DRY GENERALISSIMO SIZES UP FORCES IN DRY FIGHT Prohibition Commissioner Haynes in a recent interview said: Enforcement today is a contest between the official who is doing his duty and the criminal combination that attempts to defeat the purpose of the law for its gain, and government agents are in the thick of the fight. They not only are subjected to physical danger but to the greatest demands on tlie one hand and to abuse and vilification on the other hand. They are held up to scorn and derision by the enemies of the law publicly.

They are subjected to the severest tests by the unconscionable enemies of the law in a continuous effort to break down their moral fiber and loyalty to duty'. So the good citizenship of the country can perform a real service by giving encouragement to these men in the difficult task they attempt. HILLSDALE PREXY GIVES STUDENTS SOUND ADVICE President J. Mauck of Hillsdale College, Michigan, in the January 19 issue of the magazine published by the students, calls attention to the warning by the Judicial Section of the American Bar Association against the policy of treating the Prohibition law with contempt. President Mauck quotes this statement and urges every right minded citizen to take scrupulously to heart the warning it contains.

He says: The liquor interests arc compactly organized with the ablest and most resourceful lawyers and unlimited funds to nullify the constitutional amendment and laws for its enforcement. The studied verbal arguments and adroit cartoons in very many great daily papers and magazines against Prohibition are startling evidences of the desperate propaganda. The reading public should be actively watchful against this unholy crusade through the public press against the deliberately expressed will of the American people. "Dont laugh! Destroy the dragon teeth SMUGGLERS DEFEATED IN BOOZE LANDING ATTEMPT A Salem, Associated Press dispatch reports that 18 customs officers and police defeated smugglers attempt to land whisky valued at $70,000 by a large motorboat which stranded on the flats of Collins Cove. Seven automobiles and two motor tmeks were lined up on the shore awaiting the liquor cargo.

One truck was seized. Five seamen from the motor-boat scurried over the mud flats to elude the officers, who were in three row boats, and one was arrested. The liquor had been billed from Nassau, British West Indies. HOSTELRY IS ACCUSED OF HEAVY LAW VIOLATIONS According to a Chicago dispatch of February 20, information was filed against the Hotel Sherman Company of that city by Charles F. Clyne, United States district attorney, charging the company with selling 11,450 gallons of whisky in violation of the Prohibition act.

The company operates the Sherman Hotel, one of the largest and best hotels in Chicago. Cook county, Chicago, jail, has a new jailer. He is Capt. Wesley II. Westbrook on a years leave of absence from the police department of the city of Chicago.

Conditions in the Cook county jail have been deplorable and attention of the public was called to the situation through the escape of Tommy OConnor under sentence of death. Although no direct assertions concerning discipline were made by the new jailer those who know him state that the rules -and regulations will be kept to the letter. LONGEVITY ASSOCIATION ATTACKS CONSTITUTION Another society whose purpose is to restore the liquor traffic, has been organized. It is incorporated in New Jersey under the name, The American Longevity Association. This is what the Association proposes to do: Wipe out the Eighteenth Amendment.

Kill Prohibition. Permit men and women to enjoy the liberty guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence the right of life, liberty and the pursuit or happiness. National headquarters are located in Newark. F. A.

Rizzolo is counsel and E. B. Twardus is associate counsel. denounce it. Indeed, Pussyfoots new move will be to impose through his English allies and agents such new and more drastic restrictions of the poor mans club (i.

the public house) as will make its disappearance easy in fact, "the next step in temperance reform. Public apathy is responsible for this new assault on our liberties. Today we must bestir ourselves for as Mr. Stephen Leacock recently warned us, a crusade of. the same kind that forced Prohibition on America is to be organized against the British Isles, "financed by the same feeble-minded philanthropy and inspired by the same brutal and intolerant fanaticism.

It is high time that the public realized the danger. Which being interpreted it is high time the liquor interests of Britain realize that they are engaged in a business that is doomed. Hence this shriek of warning from the British liquor journal. BRITISH LIQUOR JOURNAL SEES ALL SORTS WEIRD, UNCANNY SHAPES AND ENTITIES Announcement of New Pussyfoot Campaign for Dry Britain Cause of Hot Distemper; British Chuiches Targets For Wet Mud Batteries WOULD PROVIDE 19 MORE U. S.

DISTRICT JUDGES The Senate Judiciary Committee on February 13 agreed to report a bill for providing for 19 additional United States district judges and one additional circuit judge. These additional courts are made necessary to relieve the congested dockets. The liquor interests have attempted to make it appear that the Prohibition law is responsible for the overcrowded condi-. ttions of the courts, but Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court and United States Attorney-General Daugherty do not agree with them. At all events, the additional courts will facilitate prosecutions aand the creation of these courts will be sad news to the outlawed booze interests.

Harper's Wine and Spirit Gazette (London, England) for February 4 quotes John Bull as saying that Pussyfoot Johnson is launching a new campaign to make Britain dry. The liquor journal explains: Like the tubes its workings will be under ground. In this new kill-joy effort Pussyfoot will be carefully camouflaged. The American origin of the movement will never be suspected, it is hoped, by the public. Pussyfoot commands money and has arranged to work through the "free churches and the total fanatics in the Anglican Establishment.

He will pull the strings and they will dance to his bidding. Nothing will be said about Prohibition. That would draw attention to its failure in America; to the fact that it has resulted In secret drinking and drug taking, in disaffection and Corruption all around to such an extent that the prohibitionists themselves One man was injured, sixteen families thrown into confusion, all the windows in a five-story tenement were broken, and an entire block was thrown into an uproar of excitement, when a still in the cellar of the building exploded..