“THE BIGGEST BOOTLEGGER.”

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 2

“THE BIGGEST BOOTLEGGER.”

THE U.S.A. GOVERNMENT. AMERICAN SHIPS INSIST ON SELLING LIQUOR.

During the past few months there has been a veritable storm of discussion in America over the fact that the Government of the U.S.A, has 'been found to be “the biggest bootlegger of the bunch,” and a persistent breaker of the prohibition law. As is well .known everywhere, the largest owner of American ships is the United States Shipping Board—-a branch of Governmental activity. It is axiomatic that American ships, wherever they float,, are American territory and under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States. Notwithstanding this, the ships carry wide-open bars for the sale of alcoholic beverages. Travellers declare that the Shipping Board vessels are the wettest on the ocean.” No wonder that protests have declared “that when the Government of the United States permits one of its departments to violate the prohibition law on the most extensive scale in the world, to make money, it sets an example of hypocrisy unparalleled in ' ’

history of the Republic. How, may w< ask, can the Government expect its citizens to respect the prohibitic-n law and obey it, when the Government itself is the' chief offender.” A plain statement concerning the situation is found in a leading article in the New York World for June 16, 1922, which declares: —“The Government professes to shut off the sale of liquor on land, which it has not done; then sanctions it on Government ships in violation of law, and now is asked by way of punishment to outlaw foreign ships that carry liquor for the use of their own passengers at sea. What next will we undertake as the most virtuous people in the world for the regulation of everybody’s private habits?” Another New York journal remarks: “One law for sea and one for shore—is it wise for the prohibitionists to consent to that? What could, be a more shameful spectacle than a Government that breaks its own laws?” Is it not plain that prohibition breeds problems, discontent, and bad business. Vote Continuance. 49

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