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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1925, Page 1

THE MOST AWlj GREAT MORAL LET- DOWN. An Economic Waste- -Prisons Filled With Criminals, mms ~ , r sm H wszajd*l ry*u»t*«wwK*o © nown American In venter,) (Mr. Maxim is the wan-;ih HuOsjou jUaxim; LANDING P. O. NEW JERSEY, July Ist, 1925. ANOTHER OPEN LETTER TO ;TORS OF NEW ZEALAND. in til Improved in Law-abiding During all of the 140 years after the birth of this Republic, and few years ago, the American people greatly prospered, ana constantly education! temperance, morality, and also became more ana more people ias in lumb c r something suddenly happened to change the law-abiding American the most lawless people in the world. Something happenea which a few years increased, the number of criminally insane, and the of druLaddicts more than ten-fold, and filled our prisons with law Then into breakers till the doors bulg, It is a curious circumstance that this great ethical, universal and i lo ral let-down began with the beginning of Federal Prohibition. II e evidence against -an "Pld^hPi* nuraei on a tit e of crim ■ intemperance and misdemeanour which is prohibition foi the wave o. c im.. Jn- . orimina i s and our almshouses sweeping the aLoho] ic inebriate* and maniacs. Boys and girls To w a o2ld m nev W eT- h ha P ve P been in their lives except for prohibition, ire now commonly drunk. Highway robbery and ma killings on the streot. iave become so.common that Economically speaking /olstead Act has thrown away tnd steeped America with evi no .crs on i in th no 1 ice C i U ty roads and bandits, hold-ups stores and homes of our large cicico yawn from sheer monotony of them. the Volstead Act is an economical waste. Ihe a thousand million dollars of revenue annually i 1 ail d the worst forms of crime and criminality. Youre faithfully,

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