PROHIBITION.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1924, Page 4

PROHIBITION.

RESULTS IN AMERICA

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

XK\V YORK, May 4

At Springfield, Massachusetts, the Board of Bishops, in an address presented to the American Methodist Episcopal Communion, emphasised a prediction that all agitation to modify or repeal the Prohibition laws will fail as formerly.

The Bishops incidentally advocated lifting the him on dancing, card-play-ing, theatre-going and circus-going, which hitherto have been forbidden. Tile address admits that the Prohibition laws arc not properly enforced, and asks “Did any thoughtful person expect otherwise, in view of the fact that the liquor traffic was legal for lot) venrs ?

“Prohibition lias now become the permanent policy of tho Americapeople. Only two States are not actively supporting the Eighteenth Amendment. and the best elements in those .States feel natural Inundation. -\Ye affirm that under all circumstances the prohibitory’ law has been a great success here. There i.s as much prospect nf returning to the practice of human slavery ns to legal rum selling.” The address concluded with the observation, “Recent years have brought up to depression and a cheapening of the moral standards which must eoncorn every lover of mankind,” and declared that divorce is America’s chief .-•:an.. I.