CRIME IN AMERICA.
PRESIDENT COOLIDCK'S ADMISSION. The " Morning Post,” June 1. 1 !>2n. "tT*■ -tdeii t ('oolitlgc. in his Mentor ial Day address to-day. pleaded for the better enforcement .q the law and the universal observance ~l the Constitution of the American j eople. "He compared the crime record ol the Cniled State- tv it It that ol Creat i Minin am! old countries, saying that a recent survey which he had read showed that there were eight times as many murders in proport ion to tile population in the I'nited States as tneiv were in England, and live times as many as in Era nee. while there were many times as many burglaries in America as in Creat Britain.” Titus, on the evidence given by the President of the United States, it is proved that a state of Prohibition is a state of increased crime and lawlessness. Prohibition dues not destroy evil, it multiplies it.—l 7
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1925, Page 4
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