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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12285, 3 November 1925, Page 10

A Billion Dollars Lost to the Government. Degrading and Disastrous to Youth. • The Law Cannot be Enforced. Dr. Gmaiuu Norris. M.D. An Open Letter to the Electors of New Zealand. OHAftiXS MORRIS. M. O. CWV MMKAi CIAMINUI eSfiA&c ue ohuh City of new York Chief medical Examiner MUNICIPAL. BUILDING New York City, Bth Aprils 1925. I sincerely trust that New Zealand will never have inflicted upon it the disastrous results which have followed the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment, and the Enactment of the Volstead Act. Volsteadism is iniquitous. • , In my opinion all persons who have been drinking 'before prohibition, are drinking now, some more heavily than before the enactment of the law, and others, who have onlV been beer drinkers are now drinking mostly. Scotch Whisky and freshly distilled,stuff>_ for the reason that beer, being bulky, is not easily handled. - The open Saloon has been largely replaced by * Speak Easys*, 30 that there are almost as many drinking places at the present time in New York as there were before Prohibition. So far as I am able po tell, there are. as many cases of .Alcoholism treated in the hospitals as there were before, and I am informed that in Neurological Clinics there are as many cases of Alcoholic Neuritis. /, The law cannot^ be enforced in the large cities in this country, ' and it is not being enforced. . ■^'' , '*jhfe‘'itks , ' s corrtipt e d - the. a large humber v of ouf : cittiSSns * and it has had a very degrading effect upon the youth of the country, as well as all those who are drinkers. Curious evasions are made: For instance, in many of the Clubs drinking goes on in a small bar; the members supply their own bootlegger whisky, for all the beer and wines and liquors which may be obtained " in this country are strictly of the bootlegging variety, for in only a very few homes has the supply of liquor been large enough to last for five years. ~ . One set of our people is determined not to have the law enforced. At public banquets cocktails are served surreptitiously, if one may use this expression, and often special rooms are-hired where the guests may obtain a drink, or drinks. ; Altogether the worst feature of prohibition is the'disrespect engendered for all laws, and it cannot in the .end fail to have ( a disastrous effect upon the youth of the country. . . , The Federal Government hp.s lost over a billion dollars a year from taxation upon whisky and beer. Taxes which should go to the Government now go to the bootleggers who have ; become a special new class of citizens, which, in my opinion, bids no good to the country. In, Denmark, which has 1 no liquor restrictions, the Government furnishes liquor, there is les3 drunkenness than in any other country. Tours very truly, Chief Medical Examiner of the . City of New York.

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