CRUDE FANATICISM.
THE PRINCIPLE OF ANARCHY. BAD LAWS MUST BE OVERTHROWN. (By Henry* Samuel Priest, Missouri, formerly United States District Judge.) Judge Priest holds that Prohibition 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' of England, of which they were subjects. George Washington in precept and example led the fight. We still hear the voice of Wendell Phillips ring ouy 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 country, to make that immoral and criminal which is neither immoral nor criminal per se. The evil consists in the excessive use of alcoholic jliquors. not in their moderate use. Prohibition is just crude fanaticism.
New Zealand has neither room nor time for fanatical laws. Prohibition is not. only unnecessary—it- is insulting. (Published by Arrangement;)
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 5
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176CRUDE FANATICISM. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 5
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