WHAT ENGLAND WILL NOT STAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2507, 16 November 1922, Page 4

WHAT ENGLAND WILL NOT STAND.

A leader in the London “Daily Mail" -ays: —“The evidence of dispassionate American witness as to the results of “Pussyfoot" methods in the United Stales doc- not altogether support the -anguine view that the remedy for poverty ami all human evils i- to put mankind into a legal -trait-waistcoat. On (he moral side, Americans have described (he effect of prohibit ion a- producing a “nation of hypocrites.” l! sounds a strong phrase, but there is the undisputed tael that flic United Stales Government (which enforces prohibition on dry land) sells liquor cheap in the ships which it works and owns. The Executive Committee of the American Federation ot Labour ha- condemned prohibition as “a social and moral failure and a dangerous breeder <>l discontent and contempt for the law." “Thus, judged by it- moral effects prohibition doe- not seem to have given precisely Ilia! "uplilt which Wits expected of it. On the fiscal side, according to American authorities, it. has raised American taxes by £250,000,000 a year. It lias drven it large section of the American people to resort to the de\iceknown as “bootlegging, smuggling, and manufacturing various deleterious mixtures such ns “moonshine whiskey,’ ‘synthetic whisky,’ ‘hoosh’ and ‘fire-water;’ and the prohibitionists to meet this, have organised a great and costly system olinloimers and spies. On the phy-iea! side there is the Pact that in tlu* lii-l fourteen days of the pre-enl yeat 103 persons died from alcohol poisoning in one American State. “In short, the lesson of the United Slates is that freedom and temperance are hotter than constraint and prohibition, against which, -o long as men are men, human beings wdl always rebel. ’ What more need be -aid! \ ole Continuance. Il(l '