ROCKEFELLER ADMITS HE WAS WRONG.
A great many prominent men in the United States ; were supporters of socalled "prohibition." Among them was Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jun., who was an ardent supporter of, and large contributor to the funds of, the AntiSaloon League. But now, like so many others, he has changed his mind. Speaking a year ago, he said: "1 realise that the repeal \of prohibition may be followed by a wave of intemperance, but the first objective is the abolition of lawlessness.
"Any programme offered in lieu of prohibition must make that its chief aim, even if—and I weigh carefully what I say—the immediate result is temporarily away from temperance. At all costs bootlegging, racketeering, and the whole wretched nexus of prime that developed while prohibition was in force must be wiped out. The defiance of law that has grown up in the last fourteen years, the hypocrisy, the breaking down of Governmental machinery, the demoralisation in the public and private life, is a stain'on America that can no longer be tolerated." . '
These are' the words of an exprohibitionist, a leader, a thinker, a man big enough to admit he was wrong.—Advt. i
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 7
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