A BISHOP ON PROHIBITION.
The question, "Does Prohibition Prohibit?" has just been answered very emphatically in the negative by Bishop Potter, of New York. Addressing the New York Gburch Club, he declared that whereever prohibition had triumphed, it had educated a race of frauds and hypocrites. In the* prohibition States of Maine, New 'Hampshire, and Vermont, the consumption of certain preparations was larger than anywhere else iii the country. Sarsaparilla contained 17 per cent, of alcohol, and a brand of bitters was sold that had no lese than 61 per cent, of alcohol. A; good claret contained onty 10 per cent, of alcohol, but great multitudes of people who were sworn prohibitionists were consumers cf these compounds. The Bishop finally summed ■tip prohibition as "an impudent fraud and an impudent failure.".
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 7
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