CRUDE FANATICISM
THE PRINCIPLE OF . ANARCHY. BAH LAWS MUST BE OVERTHROWN. (Bv Henry. Samuel Priest, Missouri, Formerly United States District Judge.) . Judge Priest holds that Proliib - tion is a violation of the principle of Government. The violation of the Prohibition law is not a love, of drunkenness, but-a love of liberty. “Our fathers mutinied against the laws ol England, of which they were subjects, George Washington in precept and example led the fight. »' o sti.l hear the voice of AYendell Philips ring out the sentence: “The best use of good laws is to teach us to trample bad laws under our feet.. The Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) announces no fundamental principle of government. It is an effort to regulate the morals of the countrv, to make that immoral and criminal which is nether immoral nor criminal per se. The evil consists in the. excessive use of alcoholic liquors - not in their. moderate use. Prohibition is just crude fanatcism. New Zealand has neither room nor tircjo for fanatical laws— Prohibition .is. not on’y unnecessary—it is msult‘ing.*** ■ •
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10139, 27 October 1925, Page 3
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