THE PRINCIPLE OF ANARCHY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16871, 28 October 1925, Page 11

THE PRINCIPLE OF ANARCHY.

BAD LAWS MUST BL OVERTHROWN. (By .Henry Samuel Priest. Missouri, formerly United States District ' .Judge.) Judge Priest, holds that Prohibition is a. violation of the principle of Government. The violation of the Prohibition law is not a love of drunkenness, Inti a love of liberty. “Our fathers mutinied against the laws of England of which, they were subjects. George Washington in precept and example led the tight. We still bear the voice of Wendell Phillips ring out the senteii’jo: '1 lie best use of good laws is to teach u.s to trample bad laws under own feet.’ The Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) announces no fundamental principle of government. It is an effort to regulate the morals of the country, to make that immoral and criminal which is neither immoral dor criminal per se. The'evil consists in the excessive use of alcoholic liquors, not in their moderate use. Prohibition is just crude fanaticism.” New Zealand Inis neither, room nor time for fanatical laws. Prohibition is not only unnecessary—-it is insulting.— 1 Advt.

night in the House once last session and defeated a Bill (by 6 votes only) w'hicli would have allowed parts of the Bible to be read in schools without comment except the meaning of difficult words to be explained. It seems a. disgrace to us as a British colony to allow the English Bible, one of the heritages of the British nice, the fount of pure English, and which lixes the standard of our conduct, to be banned from the schools. The chief loaders in Parliament against, the Bible in-, the workers’ schools arc men from abroad and not New Zealanders; and the Labor party have the audacity to say that they would not allow a vole on the quest ion, yet oilier countries have taken votes on the question of Bible in schools with success. It is a hardship on the workers as they cannot, afford to send their children to private schools where Bible reading prevails. The workers want the Bible, as votes taken in the workers’ suburbs show that 7f> per cent, favor the Bible .in the schools. This shows liou r out, of date and unpopular is the “secular” platform of the. Labor party and the Nationalist party which prevents the uso ol' the Bible in our schools.

I am amazed at the apathy of the bulk of the clergy on this —their question. Trusting all parents will rote only for candidates who favor the children being allowed to recoive some knowledge of the Bible/during their school lil'o and that they will turn down “secularist” candidates. —I am, etc., A NEW ZEALANDER.