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...Bruce: "I have stated to you before that many of my neighbors regard with great indulgence the violation of the great lunacy?the Volstead Act?because, as they conceive, that act has no true moral sanction behind it. It endeavors to pronounce something as being criminal per se that is not criminal...
...most of all, I enjoy your personal glimpses. For instance, after reading your sketch of Mr. Volstead [TiME, March 29, NATIONAL AFFAIRS] I felt that I had met the man and learned just the things that I most wanted to know about...
...Like a cancer which, in its last stages, seems actually to thrive upon the knife, violations of the Volstead act may almost be said to have thrived...
...Moonshine, instead of being made as it was before the enactment of the Volstead Act in a few crude, sequestered localities, is now made, as the daily discoveries of the Federal and State prohibition forces evince, in swamps, in mountain fastnesses, in dense thickets, on rivers, in attics, in basements, in garages, in warehouses, in office buildings, even in caves and other undergound retreats. In other words, moonshine is almost as ubiquitous as the radiance of the moon itself...
Senator Bruce declared that "the Volstead Act has converted the Federal Government, with its denaturing outfit of poisons and filth, into a more monstrous Caesar Borgia than any that medieval Italy ever knew. In other ways also, it has filled the stomachs of the people with deadly concoctions...