CRUDE FANATICISM
THE PRINCIPLE OF ANARCHY
RAD LAWS -MUST BE OVERTHROWN.
(By Henry Samuel Priest. Missouri Formerly United States District .Judge.)
.Judge I’riest holds that Prohibition is a. violation of the principle of Government. The violation ot the 1 inhibition law is not a love of drunkenness, but a. love of liberty. “Our lathers mutinied against the laws ot England of which they were subjects. George Washington in precept and examp e led the light. We still hear the voice of Wendell Phillips ring out the sentence: “The best use of good laws is to teach us to trample bad laws undci our feet.” The Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) announces no fundamental principle ot gciveriin.ent. h . is an effort to regulate toe nun.. ls „f the country, to make that imiuoi.il and criminal which is neither unmoral nor criminal per sc. > *ie e\ i “ Csls in the excessive use ol alcohol,, honors, not, in their moderate use. Prohibit ion is just, crude tauntioism New Zealand has neither room mu time for fanatical laws, i’rohihttion is „„t onlv unnecessary—it is msiilliug.—lß.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1925, Page 4
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179CRUDE FANATICISM Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1925, Page 4
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