MURDER AND CORRUPTION.
WHAT PROHIBITION 11 A S DONE. This paragrapit appeared in a relent issue oi "America." an iiilitieuthil journal with a wide circle cit readers:—"We were told some years ago that the Volstead Act ( I’rohibitiou) would, as if hy magic, empty the pri-.uiis and the hospitals, and set the feet of our people on ike road lending directly to health. virtue, ju-nc s and wisdom. As a mailer 1 : fact it- chief results have been rapine, murder, contempt fur the very principles of authority, and corruption on a. scale -hitherto unknown in the history of the country. The law is not obeyed, in most parts of the country it is not even i.-speeled, anil as tittle goes on conditions become worse.” To ask New Zealand to jump into the same whirlpool "1 crime and lawlessness. to ask this law-abiding nation to introduce the same contempt lor government is an insult to intelligence. 10.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1925, Page 4
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155MURDER AND CORRUPTION. Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1925, Page 4
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