MURDER & CORRUPTION
WHAT REDHIBITION HAS DONE
This paragraph appeared in a recent issue of ‘‘America,” an •iinuent'al journal with a wide circle of readers: —“We were told some years ago that the Volste d Act (Prohib.ticn) would, as. if by magic, empty the miser.s and the hospitals, and set tiie feet of our-people on tbe road - lead ng d rectlv to .heath, virtue, peace, and uisdoiii. As a matter of fact its chef ..results have been rapine, murder, contempt for the very - principles of author Ay, and corruption on a sca’e h therto unknown ii the history ol the coun try The .’aw is net obeyed, in most parts of the country it is r.ot even respected, and as time goes on cond'.t ons become worse.” To ask New Zealand to pimp into the same whirlpool oh rt me and lawlessness, to ask tins law-abidin*, nr ton to introduce the same contempt for government usari insult, to iiite.ligence.*** . ■- ‘
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10140, 28 October 1925, Page 3
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