WHAT ENGLAND WILL NOT STAND.

Otaki Mail, 8 November 1922, Page 2

WHAT ENGLAND WILL NOT STAND.

A leader in the London '‘Be:!?, Mail ays; —“The evidence of dis-pr,-'-locate American witncsse- as to the result.-, of “Pussyfoot J> -methods ia ti-- United States does not altogether support the sanguine view that the remedy for poverty and all human evil* j > to put mankind into r. legal ttrait* | waistcoat. On the moral -ide, Ameii- , ions have described the effect of i>i‘* j hibition a- producing t. “ nation of 'hy- ; pocriu-. ” T? sound- a strong phrase, j out there 1* the undisputed ract that (the United State- Government (which 1 enforces prohibition on drv land) sells .- C .or cheap ia ’he ships which it work- and own-. ’The Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labour has condemned prohibition 8> ,‘' a social and moral failure and a langeron- breeder of discontent end contempt for the law,' “Thus, judged by its moral effect* prohibition does not -eem to have _ preo-.-elr that “uplift’’ which , w-'; - • ■-p.-cted of it. On the fiscal ride, ;■' cording to American authorities, it ha- raE.-;d*American taxes by £250,990,a year. It ha-, driven a large sW* ■-on or the American people to resort ,o the device-, known a- 'bootlegging,' smuggling, and manufacturing various deleterious mixtures such a- ‘scoosv; - V. ui-ky, ’ ‘synthetic whisky, ‘hoo-h,’ and * fire-water and the prohibitionist-. to meet, this, have organ* i -;d a great and costly system of is* former- and spies. On the physical side there is the fact that in. the £r-’-fourteen days of the present year 1--3 person- died from alcoholic poisoning in one American State. “In short, the lessor, of the United States a that freedom and tempo ran H are better than constraint and proht* bitioa, against which, to long as mou are men, human being- will always rebel. ’' What more used be said' Fed* Continuance.