DRY LAW

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1930, Page 3

DRY LAW

appeal to u.s.a. [United Press Association—By Electric 1 Telegraph—Copyright, j NEW YORK, Feb. 26. General W. W. Afterbury, President of . the Pennsylvania Railroad, has made an ydppeal in effect to the business in infests of the country to get rid of prohibition’.; Itb bases mand nppfi Uhe ground ..that .prohibir tjou has brought ! albout 'a' universal disrespect for the law, and that anything destroying respect for law • ‘menaces , the general, security, of .> t|ie country. 'ro i ,! ' f ! ■ f ■,. / . Similar j contentions 1 Were put' forth personally, .or by letter, from numerous prorifnent anti-Prohibitionists including Senator Wadsworth and Doctor Nicholas Murray Butler, the President of ’Cohipibia University. A CATHOLIC OPINION. * , WA-SHINCTON,., Feb— The vReWr Or Jqhn Ryan, .tlie ,y Di : fec- ; tor of.-'yhe Social Action Depot of the National Catholic- Welfare Council, gave evidence at the bearing on Prohibition of the TJ ;.S,' House Judiciary Committee. Dr Ryanhasser£e3 ; ' : 'fhat as of the. dry laws, ; President Hoover, Dry Law-;Commissioner Mitchell,., and Commission members. ? had committed an-, exgjgss in their pubfip:-titterances in trying”to force a on the people".| - Dr "Ryan added-,;“This noble experiment in the category failure ! | Wheit?d deternSiiied, copious majority df* the Aanerican people decide that they no longer wants National Prohibition, they will find legal ways to end it, despite the undemocratic barrier that has been erected by Tories, fanatics, autocrats and industrialists.’’ '