A REVOLUTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18249, 16 November 1922, Page 5

A REVOLUTION.

GENERAL CONTEMPT FOR LAW. U.S.A.'S TROUBLES.^ The above quotation is contained in a special article on U.S.A. in The Times, London, 'of July 4, 1922, from which are taken the following extracts. "The one inevitable conclusion which is forced on one by studying the conditions in the United States, after threo years of attempt to enforce the Act is that if we wish to make Great Britain sober, the way to do it, is not by passing ft general prohibition law. It is true that we are a vastly more law-abiding people than the Americans; but the difficulty of enforcement would differ only in degree, not in kind. Nor do I believe that the American people, if they had to do it over again, would take the same course. In the city of New York, there wer* in tho month of May last, 719 arrests for drunkenness. A magistrate who has been for many years on the Bench, said recently, that he.had never seen so many cases of or growing out of drunkenness. There is being drunk in the United States now an immense amount of socalled 'whisky' of the vilest quality, from which, the general belief is there are more deaths than there ever were from alooholism in the ante-Prohibition days. It is again, too, generally asserted not to contain Borne truth { that young people in the cities, especially girls, take to drink out of mere bravado, because it has to be done secretly. It in obviously far less _ dangerous for a girl to have a cocktail, a glass of wine or a liqueur at a luncheon table than to be taken to a private room or out in a motor-car to drink clandestinely. Above all, there is the general contempt for the law as law, which is being bred into the people. As has been often renaarked when the best people m the country, including leading business men, judges, senators, and members of the Cabinet take pleasure in breaking a law, or treat it as a joke, then something ia wrong with the law. Whether or not as some assert, the United - States is more drunken than it used to be, there must be some better way of making a people sober. It was a revolution almost as violent as Bolshevism, and it is difficult to see what the end will be." Do you- want this said about our country. Vote Continuance.—(Advt.) «