THOUGHTFUL TESTIMONY.

Shannon News, 23 October 1925, Page 4

THOUGHTFUL TESTIMONY.

GENERAL EVASION AND CORRLPMM. (By the Hon. Oscar Terry Brosby, author of "International'War, lis Causes and its, Cure," and other volumes). "Let us assume that the power of government is. to be exercised in restraining the conduct ictf individuals when such conduct becomes injurious to others. Because a'large num-. her of citizens' believe that this restraint is one not properly exercised by government, we now are witnessing a very general revolt against the law in question. "These evasions of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) result in the sudden affluence of thousands of men otherwise not competent to earn more than the wages of the unskilled. They familiarize the industrious poor with the discouraging, fact that higher rewards are obtainable >by illegal boot-legging than by the most assiduous and honest efforts:in their various callings. ; "Thousands of -officials'throughout the land are being corrupted .because they are undertaking the execution of laws which are not .approved by vast numbers Qf citizens who, in respect to other laws, stand for learning and light. And we; can scarcely cherish/ the hope that,, id present laws remain on the statute book, these bad conditions can be lettered. "The lure qf the' gm cocktail as forbidden fruit seems to have largely increased the number «of young people (Of both sexes who j :turn to intoxicants in their,social gatherings. "It is probable that.the number of those mow drinking' Injuriously is about what it was before Pxohibiton days. ■ "May w.Q: not ask jthat our neighbours should not concern themselves with how: we spend tomr money, so as, we do not spend it in ways to them? And when I say '■we,' let me : include all classes of citizens. 1,, for one:, shall lake no part, in trie absurdly snobbish attitude of many peoplo of my acquaintance, who excuse, the Eighteenth Amendment in all; its tyranny, because it presumably imposes upon the 'working classes' particular methods of spending their money.. Heaven help us! Let us have clomj with what may he indeed a sincere lorai of ined-dlesoime-Mattie activity,, but what, often saems to be a mere affecation, of superiority.— "North American Review:,*' 1935. Evidence from those who have had ACTUAL EXPERIENCE qf Prohibition is the only evidence worth considering. Strike out the two bottom lines. (Published- by Arrangement.) 15