LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5272, 9 May 1928, Page 4

LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

VERY EASY TO GET. MR. JOHN FULLER’S VIEWS. “1 think the results of prohibition in America are sfhoCKing,” said Mr John Fuller on his return to Sydney from an eight weeks’ stay in New York and visits to other cities in the United States. .Whe.n he arrived in New York, he sard, an offer was made on the boat to send a case of >vhisky up to his room. He declined the offer, but later in the day the persistent inquirer, rang him up again. . When he asked a friend, “Can you get drink in city?” the reply was: “As much'as you want.”

“You can go into restaurants,” con-, tinned Mr Fuller, “and buy cocktail after cocktail. These places may be raided now and then, but the thing goes on. There are road hou&es where young people congregate for dancing, and hi many these places are sly-grog establishments. There are a number of ‘speam-.eas'es,’ so called becahse you give your, order for liquor In a low voice. It is absolutely impossible to enforce the law.

In Fr.ance and Germany, where liquor is consumed openly on the cafe system, you never see a drunken man. But you see plenty of them i<n New York. At one place, at a dinnerdance, I sew people rolling out drunk at 3 o’clock in the morniing. There are a great many Americans who want to get rich quickly, and find that boot-legging pays very weJI. They have reduced the process of manufacturing liquor to a fine art. The drink is much better now, and there is more of it.” ,