A Moral Disaster

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 4

A Moral Disaster

CHURCHMEN DEPLORE CONTEMPT FOR LAW,. ,

The Right Rev. Frederic. Llewelyn Dean, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, has this to say about prohibition in the United States: — “It has produced contempt for the law Without parallel in modern History. It has produced hypocrisy in political, religious, and social life which is very repellant to those accustomed to acting and speaking fearlessly, as their conscience and their reason dictate. . It has caused and is causing young people of both sexes to drink out of sheer bravado, who otherwise. would not have drunk; indeed, even schoolboys at school dances sometimes .disgrace., themselves by getting drunk; while in the colleges, which are educating almost a million of young citizens, the mischief is sadly rife. It has created a vast band of criminals, daring, impudent, and resourceful, who are a disgrace to any civilisation.”

Similar remarks have* been made by such eminent Churchmen as the Bishop of Durham, the Rev. Dr James Empringbam, Secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society, U.S.A., the Riglit Rev. Dr J. G. Anderson, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston, U.S.A., Archdeacon, J. H. Dodston, New York, the. Rt. Rev. McAdam Harding, Protestant Bishop of Saskatchewan, Cardinal Gibbons, and many others. 8