PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] have read with great interest the various letters on Prohibition that have been appearing in the Spectator. One aspect of the question seems to have escaped your contrilintor-7. Prohibition, if it is ever to be more than a splendid gesture, involves a staggering expenditure of money and effort. Up to the present Congress has not been willing to vote the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to enforcement. Drinking in this country may be made difficult and even dangerous, but it can never be stopped until we adopt more drastic measures. We must, first of all, establish permanent military service, and construct a chain of forts along the Canadian and Mexican frontiers. Secondly, the right of search must be ruthlessly exercised without regard for the feelings of foreign countries. Thirdly, we must adopt a gigantic national system of espionage in order to discover the innumerable stills that have sprung up like mushrooms all over the country. This is the price of Prohibition. Only so can we attain the "fugitive and cloistered virtue" of total abstinence.—I am, Sir, &c., ARNOLD WIIITRIDGE. 27 East 11th Street, New York.
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