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L $15585 romen will 'elephone 563 519,10 $24.55 AS amobiks, ho CI,“ > do so is in M‘ I] to” you ICES In; '11) Pin c Station mn(‘ KS 1443?} Y. T0 Flir: to ”2.4.11 ’ mn) pany h UH) fog 39¢ 39¢; 39‘; 79¢ 29 98d H. P. 266 ;zmilér â€"â€" '. »â€" Gard- xtle .‘vlifil'he‘li A Pack- \QX __ uflx‘ <0", er mow how! at there m sewinz \ .1 35 ooooiooooopoooooonoooo! erh machinefY- Half Soles, $1¢00 PROIINENT JURIST DEFENDS PROHIBITION IN SPRINGFIELD JOURNAL Judge Gemmill Writes Letter Denouncing Principles. ' Presents Statistics on Prohibition - Denouncing the statements of the National Association Opposed to Pro- hibition as false and misleading Judge William N. Gemmill, judge in the municipal court at Chicago has pub- lished the following open letter de- fending prohibition 1nd seeking to refute the arguments offered by the opponents of prohibition. ' a Judge Gemmlll'a letter. as pnnted in the Springfield Journal. follows: “National Association Opposed to Prohibition : “Gentlemen: “It seems to me it is the duty of some one to challenge your state- ments for they are false in almoat every particular and where they are not false they are deliberawa mis- leading. _aA-â€"‘6:nn h V“I gesire to call 1 just a fevv of the fa ing statements. In you say: “‘It was promised would save boys : intemperance, but quency is reported t 32 per cent during t} bootlegger’s bottle i evitable and indelibl the child mind. etc.’ “‘It was promised that prohibition' would save boys and girls from intemperance. but juvenile delin- quency is reported to have increased 32 per cent during the last year. The. bootlegger’s bottle is leaving an in-. evitable and indelible impression on the child mind. etc.’ “Juvenile delinquency has not in-‘ creased 3‘2 per cent during the last year. but in Chicago. as well as- in other cities covered by my investiga- tion I find the juvenile delinquency has greatly decreased during the last ymr and since the enactment of the prohibition law. If you want the facts concerning juvenile delin- quency consult the man who is most familiar with them, Judge Victor Arnold. for many years the presiding [judge of the juvenile court‘ t Judge Arnold's statement. “The first five months of 1922 I not: ,.;,.1 shows 525 buy cases. a total of ' and 275 girls. a similar period in approximately ’2 decrease 5‘-U P" crease 18 per a "You say ised from 60 to tion in taxes, but from 100 to 300 [0 oven uvw ”.9. “That. too, is a complete pe‘rver- sion of the facts. Twenty per centg of the jails of the United Stateu have been without iridoners since. prohibition went into effect; and in 80 per cent of them the percenuge of the number of prisoners hu, been‘ reduced anywhere from 15 to 80 per' cent. I have not found a single statei or a single prison where there_wns: not a marked decrease in the prison, population in 1919 and 1920. In most? of the states there was an increase' :.. 1m“ mmr the‘velf 1920, but with not a marked decrease 1 population in 1919 and 19 of the states there was in 1921 over the‘yenr 19 that increase the popul: from 20 to 25 per cent was before the war. “During the year pre enactment of the pml 169 persons died in th! ”-1 -1..- "During Luc ’w- r_, enactment of the pmhibitory law 169 persons died in the hospital in the Bridewell from alcoholism. Llst year one person died in the same hospital of the same «age. ‘ ”mush“. nmmised a “Far more significant have been the arrests for drunkenness. You have deliberately tried to nuke it appear that there is more drunken- ness in America tpdny than there was befom the ennctment o! the pro- hibitory law. 'You must know thnt such is not the fact. From all the cities covered by my invadgltion I. find that from the lust you prior to {such enactment then m n reduction ' «A-» rm. drunk!!!“ 0! over 50 1 1 call your attention to the false and mislend- s. [n the first place rtbe‘ population 1 per cent less since prohibition u some cities it per cent. I have )rds of I" large 1 States obtained prgvious 10 the prin‘ed follows: I" y "I... 23 still 1 hnn il' 1 'anE chu ........ ._ __fi, _ {our-mu;- o! it emanate directly; lfrom tho aaloona that are still run- ‘ning in elation o! the law and from {the illici sale ofvllquor If your peo- ‘plc would put forth as much wort} trying to uphold and “for“ the law‘ gas you do in trying to destroy K, ‘we Woulfl have lea: crime. ‘ “I notice that printed on your ;pled¢e you say: ‘Beer, light win“. :no "loans! At least prohibition has ‘.had some cflect upon your,commitue mnully. this «:1 law nbidlnz u the! I hve mwh cm In v- uv P- ., V ing opposed to thi nloom. I have no recollection of ever bearing 0! my (ion befiore. At but you are follow- ing in some degree the enlightened sentiment of the world. A COOOOIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i mapuxn run. murm- 5 ....‘O.................... (Sig‘ed) Your: very truly j "W’. N. 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