PROHIBITION LAW
DISCUSSED IN U.S. SENATE
BORAH REPLIES TO KEED
Australian Pren Auodatioa.
WASHINGTON, 18th Feb. Crowds packed the Senate ■ galleries as Senator Heed resumed hit : speech, on the Prohibition laws. He~ characterised the Prohibition law as "enthusiasm gone mad." ; . . r f
After Senator Seed had concluded bit bitter attack, Senator Borah spoke ia support of Prohibition. He paid a high tribute to Senator. Seed's service* in the Senate, and admitted that there were many Prohibition evils to which Senator Reed had pointed, but he denied the contention that Prohibition was "a crime,'* saying that it was an experiment wrought by moral agencies tired: of the liquor evils. He stated that it had done some harm, but it had also done much good, and would never be repealed until the country's moral forces found a better way to control the "two-thousand-year-old liquor .evil.*
In the course of a scathing denunciation of the Prohibition law/ Senator Ree r, of Missouri, said: "It will not be 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 and cant, of false pretence, and chicanery and fraud will have come to an ignoble end," said Senator Reed. "The day will come when Judges who have made malefactors of. decent boys and men will (ink into the obloquy which is a just reward of cruelty, oppression, and wrong. ,1 hold in abhorrence and: contempt that cannot be painted- in any tongue that creature who to keep his place in this body of the House of Representatives will make a felony, out of that waieh he himself connives at in his'personal practice. Why do we cringe luce cowards and go to heel like spaniels at tha lash of some crowd of people-who control a few votes!" Senator Boed threatened to publish the names 6t Congressmen who vote "dry" and drink "wet."- ■■••.'■"'■ ,'..-.. . : ■ .-. . ■'
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 9
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331PROHIBITION LAW Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 41, 20 February 1929, Page 9
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