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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 257, 30 October 1928, Page 8

HYPOCRITES IN U.B. 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 corruption, moral and pecuniary, which the 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."—(Ad.) . , ■ .