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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 12

AN OPEN LETTER Dear Continuance,— You might explain why in the last Proh ibi- , L. i 4 tion vear all crime arrests represented only dv We note you have changed your statemen per ]OOO of population, and why, jumping that U.S.A, prohibition cost bdlions of P* P fhey reQched 150 in XmGY m FOr'HAvTNG MISLED THE 1941 Seeing you blame prohibition for lawHAVING MISLbD Int lessnesS/p | ease explain why liquor law v.olarUbLic. tions in a given p-ohibition year were 2 per We think you ought to explain why taxa- ] 0,000 of all convictions in U.S.A., yet in tion was reduced under Prohibition in U.S.A. New Zealand in the same period they were by £2,000,000,000 during 1920 to 1928, and 21 per 10,000. again reduced in 1929 and 1930. Such a p eQr c on tinuance, prohibition really sucthing was never known before prohibition, and cee ded, for the Brewers themselves said that has never happened since. during' the prohibition years 12,000,000 You now say "Prohibition in U.S.A, led to AMERICAN YOUTH GREW UP WITH A the greatest crime wave any country has ever TASTE AND A HABIT FORJOFT DRIINKSUNknown." Perhaps J. Edgar Hoover, F. 8.1. STEAD OF LIQUOR. Chief, was wrong when he said two years ago; "NOT ONE-TENTH THE YOUTHS OF AMERICA KNOW THE "THE YEARS SINCE REPEAL CONSTITUTE TASTE OF REAL BEER. WE MUST EDUCATE THE MOSTTERRIBLE PERIOD OF CRIMINAL THEM." (Brewers News, Nov., 1932.) HISTORY IN THE LIFE OF AMERICA." Under repeal all this was changed. In 1934 , r ... x a qreat Chicago Daily revealed sordid drinking , Te JI US J hiS (' - ,f Z2u r Crim IT e S 15 lue'I ue ' uniong young people: ’ why did the chief Chicago Judge, commenting ,7, i x j i on the 600,000 per year U.S A. prohibits "Here was o party, made up almost reduction in drunkenness convictions, state: entirely of children, a revo mg, /u” orgy ... a spectacle which epitomized the "Twenty per cent, of the jails in U.S.A. vicious growth of juvenile delinquency have been WITHOUT PRISONERS SINCE furthered by greedy and unscrupulous PROHIBITION went into effect, and in saloon keepers operating under a city four-fifths of them the number of prison- administration which ignores law and ers has been reduced anywhere from 15 popular sentiment calling for regulation to 80 per cent." o f liquor sales. . . ." You might also tell us why the Judge of the We will write to you again tomorrow. Till Chicago Children's Court said: then, trusting the people will vote for drier "The prohibition law has destroyed the conditions, Yours drunken father and husband as an evil ZEALAND ALLIANCE FOR THE home influence, and this in turn has n .. greatly decreased the cases before the ABOLITION OF THE LIQUOR TRA, FIC BY Court of delinquent boys and girls." THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. VOTE PROHIBITION

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