GET THIS ON YOUR MIND.

Shannon News, 16 October 1925, Page 2

GET THIS ON YOUR MIND.

HL'MEMBER AT THE PO-LLLNG BOOTH. It was decided the other day, in a Federal Court oi tne U.S.A., that a Prohibition officer may seize Baggage arm examine it, or may enter a nouse and searcn it, WITHOUT A WABIiAA'T. .Needless to say, the New Zealand Prohibition Party has not announced this decision, it would I'a.v rather that the electors knew nothing about if; it queers their pitcn—gives die ■he to their vapouring's. i'hey know that the law they are trying tq force upx>n this Dominion is" modelled on the American law, they know that it is just as severe, more narrow, and more Jaivreaebutg than the American law; they know that it will operate, just as'the Amer'ican law is operating—to the destruction of personal liberty, to the increase of crime and general lawIf it were not a serious aad pathetic situation one could laugh at it. The poor, short-sighted meddler in othyr people's affairs would be happy when an officer broke into a man's home or opened a man's suitcase and found a bottle, of .brandy. He would feel- that' the glorious result justifies the enormity of tne method. •Personal liberty is a matter of transcendental importance. The. security of Government, the..existence-of civilisation depends upon its maintenance. '""'. ' ; -• I Hold fast to liberty. - Strike .out th<? two bottom lines. i} - -'PublishM by Arrangement.)