HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS
SCATHING EDITORIAL In an editorial on March 30, 1928, the "New York Times’’ describes the situation created by prohibition in U.S.A. as follows: “ Corruption’ is now rightly a conspicuous theme. What is the pecuniary corruption of a few to the steady and deeper and growing coruption, moral and pecuniary, which tho Volstead Act (prohibition) begets? A Congress largely composed of hypocrites, Dry-Wets by the million, constant bribery of officials, the virtual impotence of a statute fitfully and sporadically enforced at monstrous expense, the spy, the informer, careless, frequent infringement of the rights of the citizen;'the young trained to regard the breaking of one law "as a distinction, almost a virtue; the degeneration of the public conscience: these are among the symptoms of a moral and social corruption more insidious than the official or financial sort. The latter is temporary. The former is getting to be permanent and growing worse.”—Advt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 14
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