“JUDGE BY FACTS.”

Shannon News, 13 October 1925, Page 4

“JUDGE BY FACTS.”

AN OUNCE OP TRUTH! IS WORTH A TON OF PROPAGANDA. ' Prohibition is INEVITABLY followed by a terrible increase in drug traffic. That is the candid verdict of , every authority who is closely acquainted with conditions as they are. i Mr Frederick A. Wallis, Commisj sioner of Correction, New York, states officially that since Prohibition the ; United States leads the world in the consumption of opium. An average ; of 36 grains 1 per capita is used in the U.S. each year. India uses but 27 ■ grains, while Italy—a wine-drinking country—uses qnly one grain. Germany uses two grains, England three and France four. The following is an extract from the New York Times, September 12, 1924: “Judge 11. S. McDevitt told the Grand Jury in an address in Quarter Sessions Court to-day that there were 30,000: drug addicts in Philadelphia, and that they were supplied by narcotics ‘by at least 1000 dealers and agents. The traffic had assumed unprecedented proportions and now menaced the health and safety of the whole city.” Such evidence cannot be refuted by the vague sentimentalisms of the professional prohibitionists. There is such a weight .of irrefutable facts in favour of Continuance of New Zealand’s present clean, happy and temperate prosperity that there is only one course open to the thinking Maorilander.—Published by arrangement.