PROHIBITION

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 12 April 1920, Page 5

PROHIBITION

"PUSSYFOOT'S" CLAIM

[PBEIi ABBOOIATION.I

Australian and N. 75. Oable Atw*?miu>w

(Received April 11, 5.5 p.m.) I UONDON, April 10. 'JP ussy feet" Johnson is returning to America. Interviewed by tiib Doily Chronicle; lie said tfcat he vvais going back to toll tbo soft pechal "wets," that there had'been a big slide, in' public opinion towards Prohibition, widened by a panic in the- liquor organ isutionsj which wero spending enomciis sums of money, most olJ which1 Nvas wasted', :'n organised rough hoiiro \vK-k at Prohibition meetings,' which1 had done' licjiior a lpt of hai-p. "Among my converts.," hb fjaid, "are-JGnglish titbd, folk, 'members, ofthe ilonse of sCbSimaris, and^reprenentatiyes'of tho-^big^sfc ' trade, coi--poratioiis, rtlsd rt^groAt and growing secret' army of irfen and women whoare moderate driiikers1, but who will vote Prohibition if put to the test."