AMERICAN ITEMS.
IMiOI 11 HIT lON CON F F.lt ENCE. [“Tun Tunis’’ Seuvick.l (Received this day at Id Id p.m.) NEW"'YORK. Oil. IJ. At the prohibition cuiiiotviuv I’inehot declared two facts slued out. One v.as the steadily increasing determination of decent people to have the law enforced and the other was the steadily increasing violation ol the law by fh" criminal elements. It was idle to suggest that the law could not. he enforced. The essential reason why bootlegging and defiance ol the law was increasing was because the position had not been grasped with a strong hand. Polities were responsible for the black disgrace which had overtaken the nation. The present eruption of law breaking polities came from two causes ; firstly, law enforcement' was poor; and secondly, had whisky with beer was helping to supply the sinews of war for polities, which must reciprocate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1923, Page 3
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145AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1923, Page 3
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