PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your issue of March 26th W. T. Grenfcll says : " Everywhere the splendid results of Prohibition are becoming more and more plain. This country will never go back on it."
Let me assure you the question of Prohibition is not so simple as that. If all the big educators have given unanimous testimony favouring Prohibition—or for that matter, anything else—the fact strangely got by the New York newspapers. President Butler. of Columbia does not approve of the Pro- hibition Amendment, and former Professor Franklin is on record in a book against it. The question is too complicated to be disposed of in a short letter.—I am, Sir, &c., [We agree with our correspondent that the Prohibition question is too complicated to be dismissed in a short letter, but with Dr. Grenfell's main argument we also agree : That the majority of " educators " in the United States arc in its favour and that America will never revert to the saloon and to a privately owned drink trade.—En. Spectator.]
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