“The Biggest Bootlegger.”
TILE I'.S.A. GOVERNMENT. AM El] I CAN SHIPS INSIST ON SEE UNO LTQUOU. During tlu* j>«’st- lew mouths the.® hits been ii vorital»lf‘ stonn of discussion in A morion over the fact that the Government of the lE.A. lias been found to he “the biggest bootleggci of the bunch,’’ and a. persistent breaker of the prohibition law. Vs is well known everywhere, the largest owner of American ships is the branch of Governmental activity. It is axiomatic that American ships,wherever they float, are American territory and under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States. Notwithstanding this, the ships carry wide-open bars for the .sale of alcoholic beverages. Travellers declare, that the Shipping Board vessels are the wettest on the ocean.” No wonder that protests have declared “that when the Government of the United States permits one of its departments to violate the prohibition law on the most extensive scale in the world, to make money, it sets an example of hypocrisy unparalleled in the history of the ■Republic. TTow. may we ask, can the Government expect its citizens to respect the prohibition law and obey it. when the Government itself is the chief offender?”
A plain statement concerning the situation is found in n leading article in the New York “World” for Juno 10th., 1022, which declares: -“The Government professes to shut off the sale of liuqor on land, which it has not done; then sanctions it on Government ships in violation of law, and now is asked by way of punishment to outlaw foreign ships that carry liquor for the use of their own passengers at sen. What next will we undertake as the most virtuous people in the world for the regulation of everybody's private habits V’
Anolltri' New York journal remarks: “One law for sen and one for shore - is it wise for the prohibitionists to consent to that? What e.ould lie a more shameful spectacle than a Goreriiment that breaks its own laws?”
Ts it not plain that prohibition weeds problems, discontent, and bad msiness. Vote Continuance. 49
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1922, Page 1
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347“The Biggest Bootlegger.” Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1922, Page 1
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