FUNDAMENTAL LAW.
A JUDGE’S STRICTUItES. SAVS PROHIBITION IS A .JOKE. Los Angeles Examiner, 12th April, 1020. Declaring it too dillicult to convict bootleggers under the Volstead law, .Judge Diivis to-day dismissed the case of Stanley Poredna and ordered his Intense restored, saying: "The present law is a joke. Ihe Courts are cluttered up with a lot of I jetty eases like Peredna’s, where a couple of drinks were found in his place, while one never hears of a wealthy man with a cellar lull ol booze being drugged into Court. "Not one of the big bootleggers in Chicago lias ever been convicted—it is invariably the little follow. Prohibition can never be enluroed because it makes crimes of things that are not criminal. It oliends a tundamenta! law of human nature—n law stronger than all the Acts in I .11 Lament in tlie world. New Zealand has no room for unnatural and imprnctieal laws. She refuses to be decoyed into social chaos and moral degradation. —2l.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1925, Page 4
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165FUNDAMENTAL LAW. Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1925, Page 4
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