MAKING SNEAKS.
"By inakuig a crima of that which is no crims," eaya the rector above quoted, "society is put upon a y false basis. It is no etatesman-14» i ;-.)ftc,, l Ji^ca ; l. plea that thereiby soma tajgnrjtf-t','.asdyrate, will be. pre-veot-od. Such a pica "would justify the reintroductiqn qi the curfew bell, the passport system, the censorship of tho Press, and every ctiier arbitrary measure from wiiich we have freed ourselves. The very fact that prohibition needs so many measures which would never be tolerated by a liberty-loving people regarding any ot&er infraction of the law—believing a man to be guUty until he 'has proved hia innocence; the subversion of every safeguard of British law and justice—prove ihow demoralising, how degrading, how enslaving the whole prohibition movment is: and it will end— as all tyrannical and enslaving movements have done in all countries and in all centuries of history—in making ua a nation of sneaks." 1988
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10450, 14 September 1899, Page 2
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