REMEMBER THE PRICE AMERICA PAID.
America paid a terrific price for prohibition in both money and in morah, and the evils'-created were so deepseated that a gigantic cleaning up problem was created even after repeal. To quote Will Irwin in the New York "Herald Tribune'': "We're going to have some peculiar and complex troubles arising from two sources. First, prohibition has bred an army of parasites who have learned for the first time in history how to make crime pay . . .' fi: the second place, a big element has 'earned the arts of illicit brewing, disliking and blending." Other observers late that the cause of temperance in lie United States was set back many ars by prohibition and its after " -cts. he failure of prohibition is i plainly t for all to see. That is why to-day country in the world has it- . New and shoujd avoid it as if it were-a •; .-p. Vote for true temperance- and *nl progress. Vote' Continuance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 14
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161REMEMBER THE PRICE AMERICA PAID. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 14
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