WILD DENUNCIATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 9

WILD DENUNCIATION

SENATOR AND “DRY” LAWS “WORST CRIME IN HISTORY” (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Saturday. As a personal tribute to Senator J. A. Reed, member for Missouri, the other members abrogated the agreement to Limit the debate on the Jones Dili (seeking to increase the maximum penalties for violations of the prohibition law to five years' imprisonment) and permitted him to speak at great lengui upon prohibition. Senator Reed took advantage of the opportunity to utter a scathing denunciation of the law’. Ho said: "it will not bo many years before the moral sensibilities of the American people will awaken to the fact that the prohibition law is trie worst crime in the history of the United States, and that the reign of hypocrisy ana cant oi false pretence, chicanery and fraud, will nave to come to an ignoble end. The day will come when a uages who have made maieiactors of decent boys and men win sink into that obloquy which is the just reward of cruelty, oppression ana wrong. "I hold in aonorrence and in contempt mat cannot be painted in any language that creature who, to keep ms place in tins Senate or in tire House of Representatives, will make a felony out of that at which lie himself connives in liis 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?” Mr. Reed threatened to publish tlie names of members of Congress who voted “dry” and drank “wet.”