WIDE CORRUPTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 7

WIDE CORRUPTION

’ ' AMERICA’S PROBLEM LAWLESSNESS AND THE VOLSTEAD ACT. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, Nov. 13. Senator Borah, addressing the New York Women’s Committee for Prohibition Enforcement, said that the issue in which the people of the United Stakes were interested above all others was the 18th Amendment. He added: “Everybody except the deaf and dumb, and candidates for public offices, will be discussing it. The people of the United States under proper leadership will enforce any law which they are unwilling to repeal or repeal any law they are unwilling to enforce. “Let us not play this game below the intelligence, courage and character of the voters. Mere political expediency in the clear sunlight of this issue is both discreditable and futile. We know that the spirit of lawlessness has come to be a most stupendous problem in our national life. We know from the decisions of the Supreme Court that we are passing through a period in which corruption has reached the very doors of White House and dominated Cabinets, and robbed the people of their inheritance.” The speaker concluded with an appeal to candidates to announce their position regarding the Amendment, and added that women alone could bring the political parties to support the Amendment.