PROHIBITION!

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1922, Page 1

PROHIBITION!

THE NATION IT BREEDS.

Major Haynes, the Federal Prohibition Commissioner, has issued a .statement on the ethical side of the prohibition problem, which is well worth taking note of ns indicating the moral disrepute into which the United States is drifting through the wholesale defiance of the law of the land. Protesting against the wide spread operations of the bootlegger, Major Haynes said: He is bleeding a disrespect for law which is leading toward the fulfilment of that tragic prophecy of Macaulay, who predicted that “American civilisation would he destroyed by lawlessness engendered -within the Republic’s own institutions.” jbiquor lawlessness ijn the United States is the result of an unholy interlocking partnership between the bootlegging fraternity and the cor-

rupt public official. The foregoing is among the strongest evidence which has been printed of the failure of prohibition to prohibit, and worse still, the intense evil being done to the national spirit which is growing up in defiance of the set law ol the land. Proliibtion actually is in a fair way to destroy the moral side of Anns rican civilisation, which is far too gieat a price to pay. New Zealand certainly cannot afford to attempt so costly an experiment with the evil side looming up as it docis in the United States.*