NATIONS AND PROHIBITION.
To the Editor.
Sir, —The Rev. Waite in your issue of to-day says that Noah “made a sickening beast of himself.” What is his authority? The Bible only says that he got drunk; in spite of which he was God’s chosen father of an improved race of men. I presume that ministers of the Gospel do not preach Prohibition, because God, in his approval of Noah, and Christ, in the manufacture of wine, show plainly that it is not in their scheme of things. Mr Waite quotes figures from America to show more crime under license. No part of U..S.A. has had 90 years’ experience of Prohibition yet; not time enough for evolution to get to work to any extent. Mohammedan countries have had 13 centuries of it and we have had as long an experience of liquor. They have not progressed, while we, who were pretty well savages in Mahomet’s time, have to alternately chastize and protect them in modern times. Prohibition protects the weakest willed among us and they reward us by increasing faster than the better elements until the country is second, or even third-rate.—l am, etc., NATIVE-BORN.
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Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 4
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