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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 258, 31 October 1928, Page 9

AN OUTSPOKEN PROHIBITIONIST. Mayor of Philadelphia's Difficulty. Mayor Mackay, according to the Philadelphia "Bulletin," of April 13, 1028, challenged President Coolidge, Congress and all Federal authorities of the District of Columbia to "dry up" Washington and make it an example of prohibition enforcement to the rest of the nation. Mayor Mackay said: "Why does not the President and the Congress give the rest of the nation a real example in th* enforcement of the dry laws if prohibition is enforceable? My stand lias been taken and everybody knows what it is.* Mr. Mackay said: "I have given Director Davis his instructions. From now on the entire matter of police activity lies in the Department's hands." Dealing with speakeasies and the people who patronise them, Mayor Mackay said this:— "I have always been a prohibitionist, and 1 want the policy of prohibition to triumph, and I am anxious to enforce the law to the utmost. To make Philadelphia dry—something that cannot in fact be done"—he said. "I am caught between the upper and lower layers in connection with prohibition. I mean the people who say in public that the ?pe:;kea-ies of this city should be closed, and who are the people in private who patronise the speakeasies. "When 1 became Mayor of this city I was left with I.'S.OW speakeasies on my doorstep by the previous administration. I say and I say emphatically, that to make this city dry it would be necessary to double the police force, double the number of judges, increase the District Attorney's Office and build , and maintain additional prisons. Doubling the police force would co-t ever seven million dollars more a year I<• collect from taxpayers, and a!; lier romvl.'te enforcement measurement® would call for a round ten million dollars extra in city costs. It is time."' concluded Mayor Mackay, "that the pt:bii<- itself faced the facts. Are citizens willing to pay higher taxation i:i a:i effort to enforce prohibition

Such is the -fate of affairs in the city of Kj.hia. where <-\vn the Mayor. .1 j-rnhi'/: is unable to uit".: tiu ov"«. corruption and so- ai .i<-_v\idaTion which prohibit:><u has prolu, —{Ail.» The ?t. .Ti.'in .",?-i7u»>ne<» *1:1 ■= f• •»ir up-to-date iimini!. ii' iilw n - r . i to convey the >:--k and the injured. Help to maintain them. Street collection on Friday. — (Ad.)