AMERICAN PROHIBITION
FAILURE AND SUCCESS.
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S VIEWS.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.25 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 30.
Viscount Birkenhead, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Britain, at Boston gave Che following estimate of prohibition in the United States, based on extensive observations in various parts of the country visited in the- course of his speaking tour. °It is well established," he says, " that prohibition has. improved the condition of life of the agricultural and industrial; labourer. The productivity of the nation has reached a high standard, but reactions of incalculable gravity must follow.-- Prohibition .is succeeding especially in country districts, assisted By the excellent homebrewed beers which the farmers provide for fheir own consumption. It is failing completely in the large towns. 1 greatly doubt, however, whether the Eighteenth Amendment will bo repealed. Difficulty is three-fold in the impracticability of alternating any constitutional amendment, to honest opposition of sincere prohibitionists, and to determined support given to existing temperance conditions by the largo army of surreptitious liquor vendors. , ..■'"":•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18519, 2 October 1923, Page 7
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