FUNDAMENTAL LAW.
A JUDGE’S STRICTURES. SAYS PROHIBITION IS A JOKE. # Los Angeles Examiner, April 12, 1925. Declaring it too difficult to convict bootleggers under the Volstead law, Judge Davis to-day dismissed 'the case of Stanley Peredna and ordered his license restored, saying: “The present law is a joke. The Courts are cluttered up with a lot of petty cases like Peredna’s, where a couple of drinks were found in his place, while one never hears of a wealthy man with a cellar full of booze being dragged into Court. “Not one of the big bootleggers in Chicago has ever been convicted l —?t is invariably the little fellow.’’ Prohibition can never be enforced because it makes, crimes of things that are not criminal. It offends l a fundamental law of human nature —a law stronger than all the Acta of Parliament in the world. New Zealand has no room for unnatural and impractical laws. She refuses to be decoyed into social chaos and moral degradation. (Published*by Arrangement.)
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 October 1925, Page 5
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