POLITICAL HYPOCRISY.
DRINKING BY"DRY" MEMBERS ACTION OF AMERICAN PAPER. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. WASHINGTON, May 4. The Washington Daily News announces that it proposes in the future " to publish as news the fact of the appearance on duty of any prohibitionist member of the House of Representatives qr the Senate in an obviously intoxicated condition." The paper says this decision is made "to put an end to such hypocrisy." It says further: —"The spectacle of a member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives who is under the influence of liquor undertaking publicly to discuss affairs of State is always disgusting. But when such a member is one who consistently votes for prohibition, such hypocrisy and rank abuse of a special privilege make the spectacle intolerable."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 10
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129POLITICAL HYPOCRISY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 10
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