HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS
SCATHING EDITORIAL
In an editorial on March 30, 1928, the “New York Times” describes the situation created by prohibition in U.S.A. as follows:
“Corruption is now rightly a conspicuous theme. What is the pecuniary corruption of a few to the steady and deeper and growing corruption, moral and pecuniary, which the Volstead Act (prohibition) begets? A Congress largely composed of hypperites, Dry-Wets by the million, constant bribery' of officials, the virtual impotence of a statute fitfully and sporadically enforced at monstrous expense, the spy, the informer, careless, frequent infringement of the rights of the citizen; the young trained to regard the breaking of due law ,as a distinction, almost a virtue; the degeneration of • the public conscience; these are among the symptoms of a moral and social corruption more insidious than the official or financial sort. The latter is temporary. The former is getting to be permanent and growing worse.’
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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154HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1928, Page 5
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