ANGLICAN SYNOD S CONDEMNATION OF PROHIBITION.

Shannon News, 5 December 1922, Page 3

ANGLICAN SYNOD S CONDEMNATION OF PROHIBITION.

Speaking on prohibition at the Australian Anglican Synod, held'in Brisbane recently,, Canon Batty (according to the Sydney Sunday Times) said, “that prohibition did not prevent drunkenness, rather it drove it out of sight. The better way was to make drinking as public as possible, not' to hide it.” There was also a very grave danger that prohibition would foster bitterness between classes. The Tich man in America could obtain alcohol almost as easily as before prohibition, but it was not easy for the man without money. “One of the most dangerous arguments; used was that prohibition would be, assisting industrial efficiency. That was not so. He had spent some ihonths in teetotal Mahommedan countries, and he had not been impressed with the efficiency, exhibited. “I do not fear the competition of Egypt and Syria with beer-drinking England.” “One* of the most serious things in connection with prohibition in America was that it had engendered a wholesale disregard for the law. Although prohibition was a measure of drastic interference there was no evidence that it had brought about social improvement.” It would be superfluous to add any comment to the above. Vote Continuance. 76