CRIME IN AMERICA
PRESIDENT CUOLIDGE’S ADMISSION.
The “Morning Post.” Jure L 1925.
“P-esident Cool dgo. in 1 is Memorial Liny address to-day; .pleaded for • the hotter enforcement-cf the law and the universal observance of ilm Constitution of tlie American people.. “He; compared the crime record of the United States with , that of Great : Biota-m and older countries, - saying that. a., recent survey which he had read showed that there wee eight:femes as many murders in proportion to the population in the United States as there wore in i Engl ltd and five t ines as many as in France, wir e .there were many times as many burg’aric.s in America as Tv Great Britain.”
' Thus, on the evidence given -by. the President of the United States, it is proved that .a state of Prohibition :s a state ,of inoro sed c ime and lawlessness.’ Prohibition, does not destroy evil, it muit’piies .it:***
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10140, 28 October 1925, Page 6
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