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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 30 October 1925, Page 13

IlilllllllllllllllUlllllllllllll I A TOTAL FAILURE J COSTING MILLIONS IN DOLLARS. I Hypocrisy at it's Highest == -'""fiiii Ihc Local Colon* Afflllat-* WUfc iftt Amitif . rdrriKion of Lnbor Iα Greater Neir V«rh aad Vlrtaltr |§ Mr. John Sullivan is President of the largest Labour Union in the United States. ■ New York. m 27th April. 1»25 jj AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZRALAND. (j I take pleasure in giving you briefly my views on Prohibition in == America, made from personal observation and constant mingling with f men and women in all walks of life. f As President of the largest Central Labour Union in the United m States, I am in close touch with the wage earners of every trade and fH calling. Wβ have had Constitutional Prohibition for over 5 years— g I say Constitutional Prohibition because in reality we have not had l= Prohibition. jg Prohibition has been a total failure, and Voleteadiem has broken §H down completely,—this in spite of the fact that the Federal Government §H is spending millions of dollars annually in an effort to enforce the H Eighteenth Amendment, and of the further fact that the several States §H spend in addition to the Federal Government many millions Of dollars. M Prohibition has accomplished intemperance. * People who formerly §§1 indulged moderately in light wine and beer have accustomed themselves §§§ to drinking hard liquors and concoctions of all descriptions. This §H fact is borne out by the statistics recently issued by the federal HI Government, showing an increase in deaths from alcoholism and cirrhoai i|| of the liver. These statistics show a constant increase in the deaths g from alcoholism since 1920, when National Constitutional Prohibition g= became effective. 1| Prohibition is unpopular because it runs counter with the ideals §H of free citizens. m The fanatical Prohibitionists have laid great stress on the s§ increased savings since 1920. They do not tell you, however, that the m increased savings of the wage earners is by far not on the same ratio H as the increased earnings of the whole people. The anti-Saloon League and fanatical Prohibitionists would lead H the people of other countries to believe that Prohibition is being HI rigidly enforced everywhere. Only a few weeks ago an exposure was Hi made in the city of Cincinnati involving 28 Prohibition enforcement H offioers—who by the way were endorsed by the Anti-Saloon League for m the position of enforcement officers—and some 50 lieutenants, HI detectives and other high officials in the Police Oept. wereindicted H for accepting graft, protecting bootleggers and narcotic peddlers. m All of these indicted, with the exception of 11, have pleaded guilty. = The Chief Director of the Prohibition force of Ohio, endorsed by the H Anti-Saloon League for his position, was indicted and was involved in g one of the largest boot-legging scandals, of which there are Bany, In g the great city of Ohio, the home of the Anti-Saloon League. The tame H oonditions prevail in practically every State of the country. , J In the desperate efforts to preserve Prohibition in America, the 3| Prohibionists have resorted to changing the Holy Bible, and have s eliminated from it all reference to wine. Wine has been substituted |p by "raisin cake"; this is, indeed, hypocrisy at its highest. H Unless our Constitutional Prohibition is very shortly amended, HI the youth of our nation will suffer as a result of this fanatical = legislation which brings to the attention of every lend the general §H disregard for law. J Photograph copies of the statistics I have mentioned in this H letter are issued by the Federal Government at Washington, D.C.; these l= may be secured by writing to the Dept. of Vital Statistios, Washington. m D.C, U.S.A. , • I It is my earnest hope that the people of other countries of jj the world will not allow themselves to be caught in a similar mees« Hj Respectfully yours, HI President i I PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE— I VOTE CONTINUANCE