The Cordova daily times., 1923-04-02
HYPOCRISY AND
 LIES MARK US, CRIESISAD0RA
By ISADORA DUNCAN

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 believe in it."
 "All civilization is tottering-the only real thing in the world today is Internationalism"
 "All real poets are geniuses-all geniuses are little cracked"
 "When Americans think of poets they think of Longfellow, sitting peacefully in an easy chair, com posing moral verses-Poe was the greatest American poet"
 "All persons at Palm Beach ought to be swept into the sea-they are worthless"
 "There is no liberty in America have been told that fourteen rich men actually control the country
 "Prohibiton is the the worst curse ever foisted on the American people everywhere you go you are offered liquor; that's hypocrisy
 PARIS, April My chief impress sion of my American visit is the ex- traordinary wave of lying and hypoc- risy that IS sweeping over the States
 Everywhere bad whiskey is flow ing-in the hotels, restaurants, on the boats. Only good wine is impos- sible to be had, on account of pro hibition. For person who is not a teetotaller America is the most dangerous place in the world-for the first drink offered you is apt to cause blindness, madness or instan- taneous death.
 This is the hypocrisy of prohibition 1-with the one hand on the pocket flask, the other voting the dry law
 Next take the case of the young English actor deported for pos sessing a mistress. I ask you Ii they deported all the men in Amerl- co who have mistresses, how many would be left? A small minority.
 Against Marriage Then the American Legion wished to deport me because l said l be- lieved in the emancipation ot Wo- men and that I do not believe in marriage. Ask all the prominent women artists who have been obliged to undergo painful divorce eXperl- ences in the last ten years whether they believe in marriage. l ask vou how, in the midst of all this lying, hypocrisy and tyranny, is free person to live or breathe? Take the case of the young Rus sian poet, Serge Alexandrovitch Es- senine. whom I brought to America. He was used to drinking good wine which inspired him only to merrl- ment, dance, song and poetry ln- American he drank bad whiskey, with the result that he soon became constant prey to terrible fits, which have brought him to distrac- tion and may have ruined his brain forever.
 The prohibitionists would ask: "But why didn't he drink just water?
 It is case of, "Think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
 Controlled by Wealth
 The small minority of people, who by the power of money are forcing their views and laws on the Amerl- can people, are mostly embittered people who no longer have good stomachs or strong sex, or else they are grafters and bootleggers who are making fortunes by this suppression.
 I remember-at rich dinner party in wealthy home as one fine wine after another was drunk-saylng to my neighbor, a lady hung with pearls and diamonds:
 Don't you think it rather hard on the working man that we can drink what we please, but that he who sweats all day is deprived of his beer?"
 "Oh," she replied, 'prohibition is so good for the working people-it makes them work harder and brings better results!"
 Yes, thought, results for you to spend on luXuries.
 What injustice!
 After this exeprience call America anything you want, but not "the land of the free!"
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