AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE DRY LAW. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. The Prohibition Conference adopted a resolution asking President Coolidgo to use all the available naval craft and his full power of action to suppress liquor smuggling, and to induce tho Governors of the States rigidly to enforce Lite prohibition lans. SENATOR BORAH’S VIEWS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Senator Borah, addressing the Prohibition Conference, declared that the wealthy propertied classes had rendered prohibition unenforceable, because while they respected the Constitutional Amendment safeguarding property they nevertheless ignore prohibition, thus fostering the bootleggers’ traffic. Senator Borah attacked this unequal respect for the laws. He concluded: — “I would count myself a whining hypocrite if 1 insisted on the enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment, while remaining silent concerning the disregard of the Free Speech Amendment. Tf 1 do not respect the constitution as. a whole, I am not fit to speak on behalf of nnv nart of it.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1923, Page 2
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155AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1923, Page 2
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