A BLIGHT UPON HUMAN EXISTENCE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18525, 29 October 1925, Page 13

A BLIGHT UPON HUMAN EXISTENCE.

$ PROHIBITION'S MORBID INFLUENCE. (By W. CABELL BRUCE, United States Senator from Maryland.) "Under the morbid influence of national Prohibition, tho most reputable members of human society have been brought into tho closest working relations with tho most disreputable, _lt operates tho grossest indiscrimination between the wealthy individual, who has the money with which to lay in a large stock of liquors, and tho worker who cannot afford to pay tho high prices demanded for smuggled liquor, and who is forbidden to make oven a little light wiuo or boer under his own roof. It has quickened to feverish' and dissipated extremes the lovo of ex- I citeinent and adventure, which within bounds, is one of the most beautiful and ingratiating attributes of youth. It has brought brewing and distilling under the very eyes of young children in the home. Tho champions of Prohibition "are obliged to admit that drinking among women is rapidly increasing." (Bishop Thomas Nicholson, of Chicago, president of tho AntiSaloon League in a speech at Washington, Jan., 1924). National Prohibition has discouraged tho uso of mild fermented liquors and stimulated the uso of ardent spirits. For the temperate and wholesome glass of wine or beer, it has substituted the hipflask: it has filled the bowels of the people with lethal poisons; it has settled like a blight upon the entire joyous side of human existence." In the face of such evidence, it is absurd to expect New Zealand. to shoulder a burden of which the United States is already thoroughly sick and woary. Voice your protest by striking out the two bottom lines on your ba?lot paper. Advt. ■■ .i . ■■■■ - -■ - . * i ",'",l