POLITICS AND WHISKY
“BIaAOK DISGRACE” OP AMERICA. DEFIANCE OF “DRY” DAW* (Sydney ‘‘Sun** Cable.) NEW YORK October 15. At the Prohibition Conference. Ml Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania* declared that two facts stood cut. One was the steadily increasing determination of decent people to have the law enforced. Tlie other was tho steadily increasing violation of the law by criminal dements. *lt was idle to suggest that the law could not he enforced. The essential reason why boot-logging and defiance of the law were increasing waa because tiho position had not been grasped 1 with a strong hand. Politics was responsible for the black disgrace which had overtaken the nation in the present eruption of lawbreaking. Politics came first, and enforcement of the IjAv a poor second. Bad whisky, with beer helping, supplied tho sinews of war for politics, which must reciprocate.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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142POLITICS AND WHISKY New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11652, 17 October 1923, Page 7
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