ANTI-LIQOUR CONFERENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 286, 6 November 1925, Page 7

ANTI-LIQOUR CONFERENCE.

LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. A Chicago message states that the Anti-saloon League’s biennial convention to-morrow will advance the following legislative programme for consideration by the forthcoming session of the United States Congress: That prohibition enforcement agents he placed in the Civil Service, that gaol sentences be given offenders engaged in commercialised illegal liquor traffic, and that aliens convicted of violating tho prohibition or narcotic Acts be deported. Mr Wayne Wheeler, the league’s counsel, declared: “The organisation will concentrate its efforts against dishonest officials and arouse public sentiment in favour of local enforcement, thus leaving tho Federal Government to cope with the larger question of the control of supply of liquors and alcohol.” Mr Wheeler stated that forty national “wet” organisations were mobilising against the prohibition amendments, and added: “We arc winning all along the line, and if we,hold our front unbroken we will finish the task and crown the hopes of the century and the concentrated labour of thirty years with victory.” —A. and N.Z. cable.