PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."3
SIR,—With reference to the recent discussion in your columns. it may he worth while to bear testimony to the success of Prohibition in Colorado. When we voted liquor out, many gold men were doubtful concerning the practicality, and therefore desirability, of the plan; but now it would he billies:lisle to get any large number of people to advocate a return to the out conditions. It may be true that Prohibition does not entirely prohibit; but it so nearly sloes so that one sees no evidence of drinking, and the younger generation is growing sup without acquiring aleoliolic habits. The gain is undoubtedly enormous. The war, here as elsewhere, has sent prices soaring, and at the some time we have been called upon to subscribe to Govern- ment war loans (Liberty Loan and War Savings stamps), and to Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. funds. The money thus raised exceeds anything we should have believed possible a few year: ago, and we have been astonished at the ease with which it has been found, without serious inconvenience or distress to the people. This happy condition is doubtless due to various causes, but among these I *eve the abolition of drink Jambi first.—I am, Sir, Sc., 'I'. D. A. COCKEREL. University of Colorado. Boulder. Colorado. March nth.
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