JUDGE BY FACTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4892, 19 October 1925, Page 1

JUDGE BY FACTS.

(Published by Arrangement.)

AN OUNCE OF TRUTH IS WORTH A TON OF PROPAGANDA. Prohibition iis inevitably ’ followed by a terrible increase in drug traffic. That is the candid verdict of every authority who is closely acquainted with conditions as they are. Mr Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, New York, states officially that since Prohibition the United States leads the world in the consumption of opium. An average of 36 grains per capita is used in U.S. each year. India uses but 27 grains, while Italy—a wine-drinking country —uses only one grain. Germany uses two grains, England three, and France four. The following is an extract from the Nev/ York Times, September 12, 1924 : “Judge H. S. McDevitt told the Grand Jury in an address in Quarter Sessions Court tb-day that there were 30,000' drug addicts in Philadelphia, ami .that they were supplied by narcotics by at least 1000 dealers and agents. The traffic had assumed unprecedented proportions, and now menaced the health and safety of the whole city.”. . Such evidence cannot be refuted by the vague sentimentalismis of the professional prohibitionists. There is such a weight of irrefutable facts in favour of Continuance of Nev/ Zealand’s present clean, happy, and temperate prosperity that there is only one course - open to the .thinking Maorilander.* - 8