AS AMERICANS SEE NEW YORK.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1923, Page 3

AS AMERICANS SEE NEW YORK.

HELPING RUM RUNNERS. NEW YORK, July 20. How 95,009,000 of “other Americans'' regard New York with its 5.000,000 inhabitants, most of whom are foreigners,” is described to-day by the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public .Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Board severely arraigns New York for giving Europe, and particularly Great Britain, “an entirely false impression of the attitude of Americans towards the liquor question and the action of the Administration in forbidding foreign vessels to possess liquor within the three-miles limit.” It says:

Tile people of the United States arcproud of New York's vast energy and monumental wealth. its picturesque architecture and Broadway lights. A few millions of them every year go to New York to see the sights and try earnestly to understand the language spoken there, but they'have to rely on t heir local newspapers to express their growing indignation of the fact that certain countries, for the protection of which American sons recently shed their blood, are 10-dav protecting an organi-ed and systematic attack upon the welfare and laws of the United SI ates.

That attack is being made within full sight of American shores and is being conducted in connivance with Ameicvn criminals, three-fourths . of whom are of foreign birth. The Board observes that the application ot the Volstead Law to the stoics of liquor on foreign liners is “an accident pure and simple.” It adds, how-

ff we know anything of the temper of American ('migi'css people, that lawwill not lie changed unless foreign Go vernmeiits show a disposition in assist tin' Unified Stale-, against the rum fleets. Whal is more, there is probable little use in discussing th,. League of Nations or anvlliing similar with the United Slates as long as the European Govcrnim ids treat the Amermai; population so regardless!y.

If "ib,. Unit is Ii public could be a 1 quainO'd with the facts in regard in rum smuggling there would he an outburst of indignation in Great Britain more compelling than anything lo Lo expected from the United States.” The New York Pres- and the British Press, “which ignores American op'tt ton except, as il may accidentally receive New York expressions,'' the Board holds responsible for “the failure of Ihe British public tn appreciate (be truth about rum smuggling.''