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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 10

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£ Jiflll.uu .. ■■ i. Bi/llf ik'l.liUmWilll dl|||lll|d]||il’:|aiiillHlli!ilihiW » A Billion Dollars Lost to th? Government, j Degrading and Disastrous to Youth. The Law Cannot be Enforced. ■ |g D». CHARLES Norris, M.D. An Open Letter to the Electors of New Zealand. I - City of New York Chief Medical Examiner MUNICIPAL BUILDING CKAMIXS MORRIS. M. O. GCORGC r. LX BRUN BKCWC*.., g New York City, j Bth April, 1925. I sincerely trust that New Zealand will never have inflicted upon j it the disastrous results which have followed the passing of the i Eighteenth Amendment, and the Enactment of the Volstead Act. | Volsteadism is iniquitous. In ray opinion all persons who have been drinking before | prohibition, are drinking now, some more heavily than before the B enactment of the law, and others, who have only been beer drinkers are | now drinking mostly Scotch Whisky and freshly distilled stuff, for the | reason that beer, being bulky, is not easily handled. The open Saloon has been largely replaced by ‘Speak Easys’, so | that there are almost as many drinking places at the present time in | New York as there were before Prohibition. So far as I am able to tell, there are as many cases of 1 Alcoholism treated in the hospitals as there were before, and I am | Informed that in Neurological Clinics there are as many cases of j Alcoholic Neuritis. The law cannot be enforced in the large cities in this country, 1 and it is not being enforced. It has corrupted the morals of a large number of our citizens | and it has bad a very degrading effect upon the youth of the country, I as well as all those who are drinkers. , Curious evasions are made: For instance, in many of the Clubs | drinking goes on in a small bar; the members supply their own bootlegger whisky, for all the beer and wines and liquors which may be obtained | in this country are strictly of the bootlegging variety, for in only 1 a very few homes has the supply of liquor been large enough to last 1 for five years. One set of our people is determined not to have the law enforced. At public banquets cocktails are served .surreptitiously, if one W may use this expression, and often special rooms are hired where the guests S may obtain, a drink, or drinks. Altogether the worst feature of prohibition is the disrespect B engendered for all laws, and it cannot in the end fail to have a disastrous >; effect upon the youth of the country. The Federal Government has lost over a billion dollars a year from B taxation upon whisky and beer. Taxes which should go to the Government now B go to the bootleggers who have become a special new class of citizens, B which, in my opinion, bids no good to the country. In Denmark, which has B no liquor restrictions, the Government furnishes liquor, there is less B drunkenness than in any other country. Yours very truly, I B Chief Medical Examiner of th® fij . City of New York. ■J PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE VOTE CONTINUANCE