CRIME INCREASE IN U.S.A.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 1

CRIME INCREASE IN U.S.A.

From a, judicial point of view, prohibition in the United States does not see to ho very popular, .judge Charles Lena hum, the famous L’eusylyanian durst, speaking in Paris, said: ‘‘The undeniable increase in. juvenile crime, the most harmful phase of all in our recent crime wave, is directly traceable in the prohibition law. The modern generation has developed a spirit unknown when i was a youth, which lias made the pocket flack full of raw whisky <t requirement among “good sports” ol both sexes.”

.Tlldge Talley, of the Court of (Jcneral Sessions of New York City, in his sworn evidence before the IJ.S. Committee of• ihnqiiirv, said:— “It is my calm and delihc/raE judgment, based on my experience, that the greatest single menace confronting the United States to-day i the existence of the prohibition hu as it now stands. One oi the mo-; imposing promises made by tb friends of prohibition before tb

Eighteenth Amendment was that b

abolishing drink crime would be decreased to a minimum. I'll." promise lias not been fulfilled. .Crime lias increased in such amazing pro portion that it lias become ’ll' dominant consideration ol most of the State and municipal governments of the nation. I need not quote statistics to the Committee to demonstrate that this is the most lawless country on the face of the

earth. 1 go a stop farther. 1 assert that prohibition is one of the largest contributing factors to that disgraceful condition, 'by reason of the conceded failure or inability by Federal, and State authorities to. enforce the law; it lias created a disrespect for law, which, starting with prohibition, has gone all alon" the line.” Uo