Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-23
BOATS VERITABLE
FLOATING BARS.

/ FLOATING BARS.
All over the world the Pacific and
Oriental boats resemble loating bar
rooms more than anything else. They
are notorious for their poor food. OF
course, during the war the company un-
loaded upon the British government a lot
of its old and worthless vessels. II the
New Zealand government would tax for
eign owned corporations the same as she
does absentee land owners she might
force the shipping business back to her
own country again.
Prohibition was lost In New Zealand at
the last election by only 5000 votes
Every saloon in New Zealand must pre-
tend to be a hotel, or. in other words,
run a public house, and the saloons are
all called pubs" In the United states
the saloons were SO rotten that they
were not permitted to combine rooms
with them; In fact, in many cities not
even low partitions, making stalls. were
permitted to be set up. For sixty days
before the last election In New Zealand
nearly everybody in the country had free
drinks. AS It is necessary 10 have
room in the pub" after 6 o'clock in the
evening or on Sunday to get drinks you
can Imagine the drunken, as well as i'm
neal, conditions that existed.
The leaders in the labor unions now
know that wages are as high as they
can 60. but high wages are doing the
workingman little good as long as there
are pubs" Therefore, the labor union
leaders are joining with the churches and
the right thinking citizens and It is gen
erally conceded that prohibition will
carry at the next election. The biggest
backset tie booze element has had in
this country was when the United States
went dry There are more lies told here
In a day on how prohibition Is working
at home than are told in the States in
month. 1t was published here that the
prohibition amendment would be re-
pealed in the United States at the next
election. that there was more alcohol con
suned since we got prohibition than there
was beforcf that some doctors were writ
ing as high as four thousand prescrip
lions for booze a month, that the con-
sumption of drugs had increased I'm
mensely, and that institutions that take
care of these poor unfortunate were full,
while we know the contrary to be true.
The medical profession in New Yea
land generally favOrs prohibition. The
doctors say the increase in the number
of insane persons through the use Of al
to cope with a lot of other diseases which
have their origin in the use Of alcohol.'
Every judge l have talked to, from
justice of the SUPREME Court on down to
a country magistrate, states that the
increase In crime is due to the use of
alcohol.
New Zealand is going dry because the
government of New Zealand is Of the
people, from the people and for the
people. and not for the few who make
money out of the business.
LABOR AND CAPITAL
ISSUE HANDLED WELL.
Before l came to New Zealand I hal
heard that this Dominion was handling
the capital and labor question better than
any other government in the world. This
no doubt is true. 1t is a single blooded
country without mixed races and the
smallest percentage of yellow and black
people in the world, not counting the ma
tive Maori. AS these native Maori nearly
all live from the soil and the men are
inclined to be lazy, they complete very
little with white labor The immigra-
ton laws of New Zealand are SO rigid