LAUGHING AT THE LAW

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3304, 2 June 1931, Page 6

LAUGHING AT THE LAW

“ What is beginning to happen here over lotteries is what has been, happening' for years on a much larger scale in America over drink. The Gaining Acts are laughed at here as the Volstead Act is laughed at in the States; and the results, in proportion, will be the same, says the Sunday Times. If the Government attempts to be more ruthless in enforcement, we shall have here our bootleggers with their calves padded with sweepstake ; ’-tickets and our rum-runners laden with paper instead of alcohol. That might not greatly matter, but the consequences would. In America the fact of the law being held in contempt over one matter has resulted in a general lawlessness. In England, despite the instinctive law-abiding nature of the people, there might arise something of the same danger.| If * we have somewhat exaggerated the case, we have done so deliberately to show whither this new development is pointing. Soon the State will have to make up its mind; it cannot afford . to allow itself to be made a fool of for ever. That we do not envy it \'> the decision is no reason for condoning delay.”