A STARTLING STATEMENT.
"I personally ascribe much of the crime today to the Prohibition Law." said the President of the New York Association for Improving the the Condition of the Poor (Mr B, Ogden, Chisholm) in a speech the other day. "The prisons are filling up in leaps and bounds. On my last trip West t6 fourteen prisons, many of the officials laid the gteatest burden of crime to Prohibition. Sing Sing Prison has an increase of dope fiends by 680 per cent in two years. Nebraska has doubled her prison population in a year. Wisconsin has jumped frcm 500 to 800, Lavenworth, Kansas from 1700 to 2200, Colorado has just added a new wing. Drunkenness in six of the large cities of New York State has increased 40 to 100 per cent. Warders have increased 50 per cent for the whole of U. S. A. Don't let anyone persuade you that Prohibition has emptied the prisons, because it isn't true." This statement from a gentleman occupying such a position absolutely refutes the Prohibitionist claim that "they are closing the gaols in America." Vote Continuance!
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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185A STARTLING STATEMENT. Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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