A REVOLUTION.

Shannon News, 17 November 1922, Page 3

A REVOLUTION.

GENERAL CONTEMPT FOR LAW

U.S.A.’S TROUBLES,

The above quotation is contained in a special article on U.S.A. in ‘‘The Times,” London, of the 4th July, 1922, from which are taken the following extracts: —

“The one inevitable conclusion which is forced on one by studying the conditions in the United States, after three years of attempt to enforce the Act is that If we wish to make Great Britain sober, the way to do it is not by passing a genera lprohihition law. It is true that we are. a. vastly more law-abiding people than the Americans; but the difficulty of enforcement would differ only in degree, not in kind. Nor do I believe that the American people, if they had to do it over again, would take the same, course. In the City of New York, there were in the month of May last, 719 arrests for drunkenness. A magistrate who has been for many years on the bench said recently that he had never seen so many cases of, or growing out of drunkenness. There is being drunk in the United States now an immense amount of so-called “whisky” of the vilest quality, from which, the general belief is there are more deaths than there ever were from alcoholism in the ante-Prohibition days.

It is again, too, generally asserted to contain some truth that young people in the cities, especially girls, take to drink out of mere bravado, because it has to be done secretly: It is obviously far less dangerous for a girl to have a cocktail, a glass of wine or a liqueur at a luscheon table than to be taken to a private room or out in a motor car to drink clandestinely. Above all these is the general contempt for the law as law, which is being bred into the people. As has been often remarked when the best people in the country, including leading business men, judges, senators and members on the Cabinet take pleasure in breaking a law, or treat it as a joke, then something is wrong with the law.

Whether or not as some assert, the United States is more drunken than it used to be, there must be come better way of making people sober. It was a revolution almost as violent as Bolshevism, and it is difficult to see what the end will be.”

Do you want this said about our country. Vote Continuance.

river, instead of going on with the road. With this in view the chairman said he was instrumental in having a clause inserted in the WashingUp Bill to allow of the loan money for the road being diverted and used for constructing tljie two bridges. Now Mr Blaekmore, jnr., wished to withdraw his signature after having agreed to the proposal. The chairman said if there wore objections of this kind, the best thing to do was to hand the remainder of the loan back to the department and end the matter altogether. Cr. McliCavey considered the members of the riding were best able to deal with tho matter and moved that it be left in their hands. This was carried.