PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 11

PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON

ANANIAS PUT TO SHAME* ; ANY MEANS TO AN END. ; (Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright} NEW YORK, April 8. ■ ■ (Received April 9, at 10.30 p.m. The United Press, by permission of the : publishers, makes extracts from "Pussy- ' foot” Johnson's story which is appearing in the International* Cosmopolitan Magazine. . . - Mr Johnson, describing his part m the campaign leading to prohibition, said; - “I have told enough lies for the cause ta. make Ananias ashamed of himself/’ declared that he once bribed Russian offi- ; cials to give him information to aid hit ~ work. He said: “I drank gallons in -tW _ campaign against liquor.” He denied the ' stories that he ever took human lives dnr- . ing the campaign. He gave the source of, such stories. He said: “I like the taste of liquor, but I have never drunk it except for the y reasons I have indicated. I have not had “ a drink for a dozen years, but I would.-,, take a’drink right now if I thought it would advance the prohibition cause.. '■ Mr Johnson declared that a man’s per- y him from aiding the cause. There were him from aiing the causa. There were many drinking fiien amongst the supporters, of prohibition.—A. and N.Z. Gihla. •-