ROCKFELLOW ADMITS HE WAS WRONG.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4230, 15 October 1935, Page 5

ROCKFELLOW ADMITS HE WAS WRONG.

A great many prominent men in the United .States were supporters of socalled “prohibition.” Among them was Mr John D. Itockfeller, Jr., who was an ardent supporter of, and large contributor to The funds of, the Anti-

Saloon League.( But now, like so many _ others, he has changed his mind. Speaking a ago, he said: “I ■’ realise that the repeal of prohibition j may be followed by a wave of internperance, but the first objective is the ’ abolition of lawlessness. j “Any programme offered in lieu of j prohibition must make that its chief aim, even if—and I weigh carefully what I say—the immediate result is temporarily A way from temperance. At all costs bootlegging, racketeering, and the whole wretched nexus of crime that developed while prohibition was in force must be wiped out. The defiance of law that has grown up in the last fourteen years, the hypocrisy, the breaking down of Governmental machinery, the demoralisation in the public and private life, is a stain on America that can no longer be tolerated.” These are the words of an exprohibitionist, a leader, a thinker, a man big enough to admit he was wrong. 3