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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 8

Mr. Johnson! Paid Propaganda Agent of the Anti-Saloon* League of America Did not say that— The demoralising effects of Prohibition upon a Police Department wer® strongly , set forth in a formal statement given out by the Chief of Polio© of Chicago and published by the newspapers of that city of September 20th, 1921. Asserting his belief that 50 per cent, of his force, or 2,500 men, are more or less implicated in “bootlegging,” the Chief says: “Prohibition is not a fact, but a fallacy, and this applies not only to Chicago, but to every city of which I have knowledge. In Chicago there is more drunkenness than there ever was—more deaths from liquor than before Prohibition —more of every evil attributable to the use of liquor than in the days before the so-called Prohibition Laws became effective* All this militates against the efficiency of the Police Department.”' JT% 9 tnme and Prohibition “Wo are receiving in this country about 15 times more opium PER. 1 HEAD than any other country.”— The Health Commission for the City of New York. The Solicitor-General’of the United States says:— . (a) Prohibition has led to an appalling increase in crime. (b) A great growth in the use of narcotics. ' (c) Lessening of respect for the authority of the Law owing to tho , widespread violations of the Act. And what about this — Record of Crimes in the City of New York only, within 10 weeks, January Ist to March 12th, 1922: '■> 32 Murders 85 Hold-ups 49 Shootings 40 Robberies 16 Assaults, Stabbings, etc." Also, 264 Cars Stolen within a fortnight.' —New York World,” March 19th, 1922. Who said— Closing the Jails in America The New York Times Current History, June, 1922, published a. table showing Crime Records from 30 American cities, and it shows that the arrests in 1921 in those cities alone amounted to 640,402, being an increase of 123,567 over the previous year. If they are closing the jails, where are they putting all the extra criminals. And this— DmgS and And what about Drunkenness ? A COMPARISON. CHICAGO (under Prohibition) Population Millions Persons arraigned during 1921 for Drunkenness: 51,360. NOTE. The Chicago Figures are taken from the Official Annual Return of the Municipal Courts of Chicago, and the N.Z. figures from the N.Z. Official Year Book. NEW ZEALAND (under License) Population Millions Persons convicted during 1920 for Drunkenness 8,503. Comparing these figures with Temperate New Zealand, “Dry” Chicago with twice the population has Six times as many arrests for drunkenness. 30 CITIES —NOT PECULIAR TO CHICAGO. The above figures are not peculiar to Chicago, but apply with equal force to 30 of the large cities in the United States (excluding Chicago). We lift the following from the New York Times Cun-ent History, June, 1922: Population, 10,417,227; arrests for drunkenness—l92o, 131,855; 1921, 185,808; an increase in drunkenness in the second year of Prohibition of over 40 per cent, on the figures for the preceding twelve month?. There are more Home Truths to follow Mister Johnson Prohibitum Does Not Prohibit It is a Failure in America. The Provincial Council of the Otago Licensed Trade,