AMERICAN HYPOCRISY

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1925, Page 4

AMERICAN HYPOCRISY

“VOTE AS YOU DRINK.” SAX FRANCISCO. .July IA. A new slogan, an outcome of the difficulties of the enforcement of the present Prohibition ergulntioim. has made its appearance in the United States and’ already has caught the public fancy, and is being quoted all over the country, especially where !:• uitleggi ng and illicit drinking are prevalent. As might be imagined, the slogan had its inception in New Volk, whore after a six-months’ attempt to 'nfnrpfc Prohibition on New York. I’edj oral District Attorney Emory !!. Buckner has concluded that colon e- : moot is impossible under the prevail- . mg: Court, system. ! Buckner, who spread terror along Broadway by his liberal application of padlocks on night clubs and “speakeasies.” lias called for a new “declaration of independence” in an address 1 eforo the New York Rotary Club. “Yote as you drink.” tbo prosecutor advised bis listeners. He asked all persons who opposed Prohibition come out openly and fight t lie law in a square. two-fisted manner. , Federal con In I. which mine during and lias persisted since the war. !■ become the “George 111. of to-day,” Prosecutor Buckner s ; iid, “and has necessitated a modern declaration of independence.” During his brief term of office Prose, utor Buckner lias made a sincere ! cifort to break the liquor traffic in I and around Non York. He has cans- ; 0.l padlocks to be applied to scores iof wet spots, including many of the | largest and most popular cabarets ■ i along Broadway and neighbouring j pleasure streets. “On our new .Fourth of duly” he ; .".aid. “let those who believe in I’rohiI hi Linn declare themselves free and in--1 dependent of further inefficiency. The iinti-ProhibitioiiisU on the new Fourth of duly should declare themselves free .nid independent of cowardice. If tliov don’t want the law onforced. let them conic out openly and | light it.” j CREAKING MACHINERY. ' The district Attorney struck at j “anthiuatod creaking Federal machinery and unbelievable parsimony." : “Bet us demand the 102 d model of efficient courts, the trial of petty offenders without juries, the adoijuaf i pay of all Federal officers.” he said. I “On the Fourth of July let us say. j ‘if you give us police laws, give us I Police Courts if you won’t give us j police Courts, don’t give us police . laws.’ ” | While he did not say whether ho j favoured laws against liquor. Prosecutor Buckner urged that hyprocrixy on that score be abolished. “When T was a boy in the. rural Middle West.” lie explained, “there was a slogan in the churches during certain campaigns, ‘vote as you pray.’ Wo need a slogan, ‘vote as you drink'.’ “The law should either lie enforced or repealed. Non-enforcement weakens the morale of our Federal service all along the line. It breeds corruption and bribery. It makes cowards and perjurers out of Federal officials who respond to the demand for iimuonfornonoilt.”