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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4898, 2 November 1925, Page 4

“Say, Yes,” when there’s something to gain, Say, yes, when you mean it is so, Say yes, when its wisdom is plain, Say yes, when you dare not say no. Say yes to the offer of ease, When a cough or cold you endure, Say yes, when the proffer is made Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Ig i ' . H| | A Billion Dollars Lost to th ? Government, g | Degrading and Disastrous to Youth. | I . ■” — ' [ j The Law Cannot be Enforced. g I ’ IHM >. I I »*«■ I I ■ I IMawk » <• gg I HkiM ■ | ■■ | Dr. Charles Norris, M.D. ' - ss ■ ~~gs ' 1 : =g AX, , ■_ , - - k ■ ===== | An Open Letter to the Electors of New Zealand. j J City of New York | ;g CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER . |f El MUNICIPAL BUILDING ■ Hf M . -- . u ttWAMuSS NORRIS. M. O. CHIEF MEDICAL (KAMINM ■ S= «EORSK F. LEBRUN ' .. ' J : ||| H “ sw, * w •" , ; lew York Oity, J ■ . . Bth April, 1925. ■ ■ I sincerely trust that New Zealand will never have inflicted upon J ■ it the' disastrous results which have followed the of the J M Eighteenth Amendment, and the Enactment of the Volstead Act. g ■ Volsteadism is iniquitous. ' H B In my opinion all persons who have been drinkingrbefore ' B ■ prohibition, are drinking now, some more heavily than before the • m H enactment of the law, and others, who have only been beer drinkers are g| ■ 'now drinking mostly Scotch Whisky and freshly distilled stuff, for the |j ■ .reason that beer, being bulky, is not easily handled. H ■ The open Saloon has been largely replaced by ‘Speak Easys’, so =j ■ that there are almost as many drinking places at the present 1 time in gg ■ New York as there were before Prohibition. gg U so far as I am able to tell, there, are as many cases of B ■ Alcoholism treated in the hospitals as there were before, and lam j B informed that in Neurological Clinics there are as .many cases of gg M Alcoholic Neuritis. ■ - ijg ■ s The law cannot be enforced in the large cities in this country, Jj ® and it is not being enforced. ’ H B It has corrupted the morals of a large number of. our citizens J ( and it has had a very degrading offset upon the youth of the country, g ■ as well as all those who are drinkers. || ■ Curious evasions are made: For instance/ in<many of the Clubs g ■ drinking goes on in a small bar; the members supply their own bootlegger g B whisky, for all the beer and wines and liquors which may be obtained g B ln this country are strictly of the bootlegging variety, for in only U a very few homes has the supply of liquor been large enough to last g H for five years. g|g ■ One set of our people is determined not to have the law enforced. gg fl At public banquets cocktails are served surreptitiouslyif one || 31 may use this expression, and often special rooms are hired where the guests || may obtain a drink, or drinks. - H ■ Altogether the worst feature ; of prohibition is the disrespect J g engendered, for all laws, and it cannot in the end fail to have a disastrous ■ effect upon the youth of the country. g -31 The Federal Government has lost over a billion dollars a year from ■ taxation upon whisky and beer. Taxes which should go to the Government now gg ffl go to the bootleggers who have become a special new class of citizens, g H which, in my opinion, bids no good to the country. In Denmark, which has g H no liquor restrictions, the-Government furnishes liquor,.there is less |g H drunkenness than in any other country. \ - gj H B H Yours very truly, ib-L* ■ 1 bw. AwoXX' ' i H - .... g Hl , 1 Chief Medical Examiner of the |g City of New York. a S Profit by Experience — VOTE CONTINUANCE

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