" PROHIBITION ANARCHY."
CONDITIONS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, June 27. Mr A. D. Van Boren has announced his resignation as chief counsel for the Federal Prohibition Commission. Interviewed, he said that the country was drifting towards “ Prohibition anarchy.” Unless calm and sane judgment displaced the popular excitement and hysteria all respect would be lost for the Volstead eii-
forcement of the law, which carries things to an extreme. [Prohibition in the United States was carried by an amendment of the Constitution. The machinery for the enforcement of the law is known as the Volstead Act. The Supreme Court recently decided that the Volstead Prohibition law supplanted the former internal revenue laws, and that the old penalties and revenue taxation could not be applied in addition to the penalties under the Volstead Act. The manufacture of illegal liquor can be taxed, but the penalties for defrauding the Government must not apply. Twenty-five million dollars are involved in the decision. “Dry” agents admitted that it was a very ha/d blow to the enforcement of the Prohibition law.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 3512, 5 July 1921, Page 25
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