AN WORKABLE LAW

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 11

AN WORKABLE LAW

A UNIVERSAL FAILURE. Apart 0 from the United States ot i America, and the two small Canadian Piovinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Finland is the solo remaining country which has a 1 dry law, and its ultimate repeal can only be a matter of time. Wherever the attempt has been made to enforce total abstinence, it has failed dismally. Ine other Canadian provinces have tried Prohibition, and in each case have had it repealed, substituting a measure of Government Control. Iceland and Norway have both had Prohibition, and botn have given it up. The people or Switzerland and Sweden have voted against it by overwhelming majorities, and the disastrous results of its attempted enforcement in Russia and m Turkey are only too well known. Scotland defeated it by nearly votes, and corning nearer home, West Australia and Queensland have turned Prohibition down decisively. Now Zealand’s majority against Prohibition more than doubled in three years, and it seems to ho the general feeling than the Prohibition party is surely but steadily losing ground. It is generally conceded that their questionable tactics to capture and dominate the i Parliament of the country, combined with thfe knowledge that Prohibition has failed wherever tried will have the effect of greatly increasing the majority in favour of Continuance at the next poll.—[Advt.]