BISHOP CONDEMNS PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1925, Page 4

BISHOP CONDEMNS PROHIBITION

CREATING CRIMINALS

IN THE U.S

LONDON, September io. That Prohibition is attended with innumerable evils, and is bound to have a malevolent influence on a country, is tbe opinion of tbe Bishop of Boston 1 Mass.), Dr ,1. G. Anderson, who has arrived at the Savoy Hotel, London, after an extended tour ot Europe, the Bishop has been on a pilgrimage to the Pope at Rome, to whom lie took 100 pilgrims from Boston. Bishop Anderson is America’s 00 years young bishop—no one overtakes him for more than 35 or 10. He nttributes his youthfulnoss to golf. On Prohibition the Bishop has strong views. He said yesterday to a reporter :

I think it lias created a new criminal class, and is detrimental to the best intersts of a country. Now. the better class of our people are realising that the law ought to be changed. It was pas sod really as a war me asare. but what do we see to-day as a result of it P Wc see any amount of corruption, and we see a large amount of money being spent on our Army and Navv and Police forces to enforce tbe Prohibition laws.

What is more, we see our own officers of the law being corrupted—bought by the rum-runners.

It is not our gaols that are so full, but our hospitals; so much impure liquor is being made. Everybody now knows bow liquor can be made. I feel the time is coming when light wines and beers will have to be allowed —• I bat amendment could easily be made to the constitutional law. Prohibition was a law made by extreme .zealots, and a law likely to jeopardise a country.