14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 18

IS PROHIBITION A FAILURE?

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SM,—I notice the amazing prosperity, the hard work and working-class contentment in the U.S.A., commented on everywhere in the newspapers. In Great Britain such a state of affairs is usually accompanied by or coincident with strikes and discontent What does it all mean ? Is it not the fact of Prohibition which causes a lack of inflammatory ideas and an enforced saving of hundreds of millions of pounds ? This can be spent, and is, on happy leisure, motor-cars and the purchase of dwellings or is utilized in the manufacture of numerous small capitalists. Surely this is Worth -consideration.