HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 2

HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS.

SCATHING EDITORIAL. I In an editorial on March 30, 1928, the “New York Times” describes the situation created by prohibition in U.S.A, as follow': — ” ‘Corruption’ is now rightly a conspicuous 'heme. What is the pecuniary corruption of a few to the steady and deeper and growing corruption moral and pecuniary, which the Volstead Act (prohibition) begets? A Congress largely composed of hypocrites Dry-Wets by the million, constant bribery of officials, the vir ual impotence of a statute fitfully and poi adically enforced at monstrous (.xptnse the spy, the informer, careless frequent. infringement •f the rights of the citizen; the voting trained to regard the breaking of one law as a distinction, almost a virtue; the degeneration of the public, conscience. these are among the symptoms of a moral and social corruption n.ore insidious than the official or financial sort. The latter is temporary. The former i- getting to be permanent and growing worse.—B