HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 7

HYPOCRITES IN U.S. CONGRESS.

[Published by Arrangement.]

SCATHING EDITORIAL. In an editorial on March 30, 1928, the “New York Times” describes the situation created by prohibition in U.S.A. as follows: “ ‘Corruption’ is now rightly a conspicuous theme. "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 virtual impotence of a statute fitfully and sporadically enforced at monstrous expense, the spy, tlie informer, careless, frequent infringement of the rights of the citizen; the young trained to regard the breaking of one law. as a distinction, almost a viitue; the degeneration of the public conscience; these are among the symptoms of a moral and social corruption more insidious than the official or financial sort. The latter is temporary. The former is getting to be permanent and growing worse.” 8