Prohibition in U.S.A.

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 13

Prohibition in U.S.A.

Sir,—lu June last you were good i enough to publish a letter in which I said' that a statement contained in a cablegram that declared that Mr. G. W. Wickersham had stated prohibition in the TJ.S.A. hud failed and tlmt the British System was better, was misleading, and did not represent his views. If that had been his opinion he v would surely have advocated repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, but the latest news is that the Commission of which he was chairman will “unanimously” oppose repeal, oppose legalising 4 per cent, beer, oppose the introduction of State sale as practised an Canada. That is the decision after two years of investigating crime and law enforcement, and after hearing violent “wets” who strained every nerve to prove that prohibition was causing enormous loss of revenue, enormous corruption, crime, and debauchery. What a featuring with largo headlines the item would have had if ,the Commission hud brought in a verdict adverse to prohibition I The news , is important enough to have warranted the same kind of treatment to let the world realise that after two years of investigation a Body of responsible, thoroughly well qualified leading citizens are satisfied that the principle of prohibition ts sound, and should be continued, whatever modification in regard to enforcement of the law may bo considered desirable, —I am, etc., ’ .7. MAI,TON MURRAY. ”... General Secretary. N.Z, Alliwa*. WWKbWftw. fewta 18.