A STARTLING STATEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1922, Page 8

A STARTLING STATEMENT.

“I personally ascribe much of the crime to-day to the Prohibition law,” said the President of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (Mr. B. Ogden Chisholm) in a speech the other day. “The prisons are filling up in leaps and bounds. On my last trip AVest tn fourteen prisons, many of the officials laid the greater burden of crime to Prohibition. Sing Sing Prison has an increase of dope fiends by 680 per cent, in two years. Nebraska has doubled her prison population in a year. Wisconsin has jumped from 500 to 800. Lavenworth, Kansas, from 1700 to 2200. Colorada has just added a new wing. Drunkenness in six of the large cities of New York State has increased 40 to 100 per cent. Warders have increased 50 per cent, for the whole of U.S.A. Don't let anyone persuade you that Prohibition has emptied the prisons, because i‘t isn t true.” This statement from a gentleman occupying such a position absolutely refutes the Prohibitionist claim “they are closing the goals in America.” V ote Continuance!

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