THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
4CBTHAI.IAN AM) N.Z. (.'Allt.K AsSOCI.'TIO.. WASHINGTON, May 0. Mr Wheeler. General Consul for the Anti-Saloon League, replying to intciview>. mention- that President Butler of Columbia University would liberalise the Republicans’ prohihtiou principles, as cabled on May (itlt, and seek the insertion of a so-called •• Wet ” plank in the party platform, has issued a statement saving: ••.No party can slip into power on a "wet" plank. Besides, if as Dr Butler claims il will take a
" wet ■’ plank to save eleven States for the Republicans, what will it take to save twice as manv ” Rrv " States-”
-Mr Wheeler, iestilying before the I lon-i' nl Hepresriuai ivos Judiciary Committee which i> considering the •".!( identical Beer Bills, said:—“Why should C digress favourably consider the legalising of 2.75 per cent beer, when three-fourths of the States forbid it '? Beer has caused much crime, insanity and pauperism among the saloon patrons. Furthermore in the past, brewery-owned salloons were the centre ol vice and cornmtion, hut when wo stopped legalised beer, the death, poverty, and crime ratios declined. We had in four dry years 873,000 fewer deaths, many thousand fewer arrests for drunkenness, and 75 jut cent decline in poverty due to temperance.
CANADIAN RKI’ORT. XKW YORK, May 0. A Philadelphia message reports that figures published in Montreal by President Butler relating to the prohibition enforcement crusade (as cabled on 12th January) reveal there were 30,000 arrests for various offences during the past four months, representing 5000 more than in the same period ot 1023. The arrests for intoxication lead the list with IS, Bfi!), showing an increase of four thousand.
The report further cites ISIS arrests for illegal possession of liquor. 7SI arrests for illegal sale, and 112 arrests fi r illegal transportation. Medical authorities commenting on tile'figures, deplore the rising figures relating to alcoholic insanity, due to enforced patronage of bootleggers, whose produce is often liquid poison, but Prohibition’s proponents assert such insanity alone ran defer tfio wilful violators of the Invr,
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1924, Page 2
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331THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1924, Page 2
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