“WET” DRIVE
CAMPAIGN OPENS THE VOLSTEAD LAW A SLASHING INDICTMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Washington, Apr. 5. Senator Edge, opening the “Wets” case before the Senate sub-committee, said:— “The Volstead law has firstly placed human happiness under the irritating and harassing domination of a sour, corrosive, narrowminded Puritanism which does not hesitate to avow its enmity even to such innocent recreations as smoking and dancing. Secondly, for the first time it has brought the church deeply into politics. Thirdly, it has established settled commerce between the worthier and most unworthy members of the community. Fourthly, it has created an underworld almost as thoroughly organised as the respectable world above. Fifthly, it has tended to bring all laws, including itself, into more or less disrespect. Sixthly, it has lowered the prestige of the Federal Government. Seventhly, it has fostered deceit, perfidy, espionage and tyranny in some of their meanest and most hateful aspects and, lastly, it has been responsible for the unprecedented phenomenon of thousands upon thousands of reputable men and women, including ministers of the law itself, living in habitual, disregard of constitutional law.”—A. & N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 19837, 7 April 1926, Page 5
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184“WET” DRIVE Southland Times, Issue 19837, 7 April 1926, Page 5
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