VOLSTED ACT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 98, 21 January 1924, Page 7

VOLSTED ACT

CONDEMNED IN CONGRESS (Rec. January 20, 11.45 p.m.) Washington, January 19. Representative Sherwood, who is 88 years old, made a stirring speech -in Coivn-ess against the Volstead Act. He declared that, he signed the temperance pledge when twelve years old, and will never vote for a law which tolerates intoxicating liquors as a beverage. He cited figures showing that there .was a mounting consumption _of British liquors m America, and said that since the Volstead Law was passed drinking had increased among young men and e-irls “It has become a menace to orderly societv. The Anti-Saloon league said the Act would reduce crime to a minimum and largely reduce the divorce evil, but after four years expcrience, wo find, not a single promise has been kept. Crime has increased 40 per cent., divorces in fifty cities have increased 35 per cent , aud n B! r ’' ders have increased 40 pee cent. I™ fearful record of our narcotic addicts is oven worse, now numbering nearly a million victims, as reported by the highest medical expert. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn-