PROHIBITION LAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 107, 6 April 1926, Page 7

PROHIBITION LAW.

SOME ALLEGED RESULTS. Received April 6, 11.35 'a.m. WASHINGTON, April 5. Mr Edge, in opening the “wets’ ” case before the Senate sub-committee, said : “The Volstead law lias (1) placed human happiness under the irritating, harassing domination of sour, corrosive, narrow-minded Puritanism, which does not hesitate to avow its enmity even to such innocent recreations as smoking and dancing. (2) For the first timo it has brought tho Church deeply into politics. (31 It lias established a settled commerce between worthy and most unworthy members of tho community. (4) It has created an underworld almost as thoroughly organised as the respectable world above. (5) It has' tended to bring all laws, including itself, into more or less disrespect. (0) It has lowered the prestige of the Federal Government. (<) It lias fostered deceit, perfidy, espionage and tyranny in some of their meanest and most hateful aspects. Lastly, it has been responsible for the unprecedented phenomenon of thousand and thousands of reputable men and women, including ministers of the law itself, living in habitual disregard of tlio constitutional law.”—A. and N.Z. cable.