THOUGHTFUL TESTIMONY

Northland Age, Volume 25, Issue 28, 29 October 1925, Page 5

THOUGHTFUL TESTIMONY

GENERAL -EVASION A' > CORRUPTION. (By the Hon Oscar Terry Crosby, author of “International War, It*Causes and it* Cure,” anti other volumes.) “Let ns assume that the power of, government is to be excreted in restrain- ( ing the conduct of individuals w 1 r n such | conduct becomes injurious to ottaets. because a large number of citizens believe that thi* restraint is one not properly exercised by government, we now are 1 witnessing a very general revolt a gat nit the law in question. “These evasions of lire Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) result in the sudden affluence of thousands * men otherwise not competent to earn more ’ than the wages of the unskilled. They familiarize the industrious poor with the discouraging fact that higher rewc ds are obtainable by illegal boot-legging than by the most assiduous and honest efforts in their various c< Pings. “Thousands of officials throughout the land are being corrupted because they are undertaking the execution of law' which are not approved by vast numbers of citizfftf who, ; n aspect to othe laws, stand for learning and light. Aad we can scarcely cherish *he hope that, present laws remain on th< statute oook, , these bad conditions can be betterc . “The lure of the gin cocktail > forbidden fruit seems to have larg ly increased the number of young pc, le of both sexes who turn to intoxicants i t their social gatherings. “It is probable that the number o .hose ( now drinking injuriously is about vhat it was before Prohibition days. “May we not ask that our neighbours ! should not concern themselves with how we spend our money, so long as we lo not spend it in wajs injurious to them ? And when I say ‘we/ let me include al! classes of citizens. I, for one, shall take no »art in the absurdly snobbish attitude ©' many people of mv acquaintance, who excuse j the Eighteenth Amendment in ail ;t c tyranny, because it presumably imposes upon the so-called ‘working classes’ particular methods of spending their i onev Heaven help us! Let us have do* e with what may he indeed a sincere form ol meddlesome-Mlll ie activity, but what often seems to be a mere affects' on ot superiority.—“ North American Review,” 1935Evidence from th'»se who hav*» bad ACTUAL EXPERIENCE ef Prohibition is the only evidence worth considering. Strike out the twefbopom lin :s. 15 Profit by Experience. VOTE CONTINUANCE