NINETY PER CENT. GUILTY
AMERICANS AND PROHIBITION BOGUS CHURCHES ORGANISED. After seeing the operation of the Volstead prohibition . laws in tlie United States, Mr Uitan F. McCabe has returned to Wellington firmly convinced that prohibition there is a failure. “The lawMs simply not enforced," said Mr McCabe yesterday. “Bootleggers are commou, hip flasks are general, and nowadays a party without liquor is unknown, and to go to a party without getting drunk is to waste the evening. 1. met many people, and they all said the same thing. One man told me that before the Act came into force his sons would scarcely Jook at the drink which lie kept in the house. Now they all carry hip-flasks. It has'been Like indicating a tree in an apple-orchard to a boy and telling him that he must not touch it.
“Before the new Jaw began operaling there were many people, paiticularly employers of labour, who believed that prohibition wpuld be of great benefit to them, and they subscribed 63 million dollars to the Anti-Saloon League in consequence. But after prohibition came into force it was another matter. I was told that adulteration of liquor was general, that the labels of all brands had been printed. and even Government stamps counterfeited so that one did not know what it was to get a pure drink. The inauguration of the system of doctors’ , prescriptions (with 100 prescriptions every 90 days) made doctors bootleggers and chemists followed. Jewish rabbis then were allowed to issue wine to their congregations, and it is said that in some communities men were paid a dollar a head by bootleggers to get names for new churches which were to be organised, and these names were used for the issue of wine. “Bootlegging is on the increase and yet millions are being spent on the attempted enforcement of the law. The worst part of all is the drinking among the young people. The boy who does not 4 carry a bottle on his hip is considered a molly-coddle and, as the Americans sav, is ‘out-of-luck* with the girls. There is drinking in the public schools and in dance halls, and it is said that 90 per cent, of the American people lias violated the Volstead Act since its passage."
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 3
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379NINETY PER CENT. GUILTY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12612, 24 November 1926, Page 3
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