A Striding Comparison.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1922, Page 1

A Striding Comparison.

Prohibitionists say that cablegrams nrc not. to 1)0 believed unless they are favourable to prohibition. Tt lias been the design and intention of Mr “Pussyfoot’ Johnson to prove that prohibition was a great stiecess in America, and that there was no drunkenness in America, and that there was less crime and less work for the police accordingly. The reverse is the truth. Mr P. G. Jones, Secretary of the Polieo Department of the Citv of New York (May 12th., 1922) makes this statement: — TOTAL A Pit KSTS ALT. CLASSIFICATIONS. TWO YEARS BEFORE I’ROHIBITION. 1917 1918 Arrests 187.613 170.159 TAVO TRAPS UNDER PROHIBITION. \ 1290 1921 Arro»ts 22(1,7-19 272.751' As to the increased expense of the police which were to be abolished nude'.- prohibition altogether—because prohibition is the millennium—tin District Attorney for the County of New York gives the following figures:— TWO TRAPS BEFORE PROHIBITION. 10.16 17.017.287 dollars. T 917 18,200.192 dollars. TWO TRAPS ARTUR PROHIBIT r ON. 1919 ... 20.GG2.219 dollars. 1920 2-1.595.187 dollars. And it, is said there is no crime wave and the gaols arc empty in America, as the result of prohibition, but the perpetrators of the Herrin massacre. which took place two months a«n. have not. yet been all arraigned at the bar of American justice.*