PURITANS, PRUDES AND FADDISTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1923, Page 4

PURITANS, PRUDES AND FADDISTS.

LONDON. May 3.1. Mi- s\ S. !’. flawneYs "Emmie* of 1 _;I;;■ 1 1 i " is a soil iled and eonviiietng erit :■ : m of the |:. m’*- . ’*' lsl ’• ( i - •■!*.. an i ill* *■ i ;:\H»«i-i • "ho (, 1. 1-7.! .'ill England and ike United «( :1.. .. I )e.r greala-- 1 peril, in f:U-l, he 11,!:' u-e.v ir, m i! pt.de- -rd phi! In England there 1 a clwa;. - h.vn_ a i, v i-i - * | u i re ol p :• r *. m : L: t: I.: *; *. i : ci-; I* • i. :i;i‘;.• a.n 1 a e -n pared « ith > ■ “ erti.'-. Puritanism cf ■: : * 1 .* Laho'ir incci1, ~ t|, . j,,,-.** si,,'if inleri'.-.ene* id j, i,ie.- : r -mis u;th 1 1*: ju'-i'ale .ii.. 1 1. nf , - individual. 'I ! .- - n-calied IP r;, 1 ' riv im longer ear. - ,- r i'Mividu; ! l: !, -,-|y. Il apuea.rs Io i • -tit mil 'ling > ' ' a miu -lor < -*mhip ,t ~.i e.r Pero.ini mi and Elate ,Soria I i :■ : and in ihv-e respecis H R real!, n* *re dangerous limn lit- I ahom Pei : , -.. Inch is limnin'ally nun * ed)lcahl '. arc i! ■' ivm u i'a.hiif •. ■ : ( (i act la-lii remarking iliat Hie on)-, ii'. -i women now in i be* House of C'omim.n* s *, in io spend il.t-ir i one in intro.lu-ing I ile-pol i>tu of the nursery ii.lo ih.:* i-iliiic! i list it n i inns ol Gie.il Rritaill. Lady A-dor has |e duly avowed her iuleii'ib.n;, in this resjieet. and !*:'.s sn.i'.l that ‘die wishes t• • enslave men in pro])oriiou Io her alieciioii for them. The jiii s<d i i f of Prohibit ion in I lieUni led ‘H ate' collies in for plain and spirited words from Mr Haynes: I should have Ihruiglit Ilia! nearly everyone in this country exi-cp! Lady Astor :iij<l a fe« cranks would admit l baf. Prolii hi tion create*. iiol.lo’ug hn

every sort of anarchy and hypocrisy, just, l:ecau c e it suppresses every human impulse that makes for law and liberty. Hut perhaps the worst of Prohibition is that the American people who used to believe in freedom endure it: Tiiat to a lover of liberty is the sad thing about Prohibition, not that it was allowed to happen, not that many people believe in it, hut that no one seems to have the vigour or inclination to stand np and have it stamped out, not even those who spend their days blaspheming and evading it. “Democracy.” as the author remarks, “has always been the enemy of social liberty.” This is a lively hook which ought to be widely read, and its protasis against the busy-bodies is sorely nreded