PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 November 1925, Page 5

PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

ENFORCING THE LAW. * .■jf MORE PROPOSALS TO BE CONSIDERED. BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. NEW! YORK, Nov. 5. A Chicago message states that, the Anti-saloon League’s biennial convention to-morrow will advance the following legislation programme for consideration by the forthcoming session of the United States Congress: That prohibition enforcement agents be placed in the civil service; that gaol sentences be given offenders engaged in the commercialised illegal liquor traffic; and that aliens convicted of violating the prohibition or narcotic Acts be deported. Mr Wayne Wheeler, counsel to the league, declared: “The organisation will concentrate ite efforts against dishonest officials and arouse public sentiment in favour of local enforcement, thus leaving the Federal Government to cope with the larger question of the control of the supply of liquors and alcohol.” Mr Wheeler stated that 40 national wet organisations were mobolising against the prohibition amendment, but he added: “We are winning aty along the line, and if we hold our front unbroken we will finish the task and crown the hopes of a century and the concentrated labour of 30 years with victory.”