FUNDAMENTAL LAW
A JUDGE’S STRICTURES SAYS PROHIBITION IS A JOKE Los Angeles Examiner, April 12, 1925. Declaring it too difficult to convict bootleggers under the Volstead law, Judge Davis to-day dismissed the case of Stanley Peredna and ordered his license restored, saying: “The present liaw is a joke. The Courts are cluttered up wth a lot of petty cases like Peredna’s, where a couple of drinks were found on his place, while one never hears of a wealthy man with a cellar full of booze being dragged into Court. “Not one of the big bootleggers in Chicago has even been convicted —it is invariably the little fellow.” Prohibition can never be enforced because it mlakes crimes of things that are not criminal. It offends a fundamental law of human nature —a law stronger than all the Acts of Parliament in the world. New Zealand hjas no room for unnatural and impractical laws. She refuses to be decoyed into social chaos and moral degradation. —Advt. 21.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19435, 22 October 1925, Page 2
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