AMERICA AND PROHIBITION.
TO THE EDITOB. Sxiq—Wo have heard and read a great deal about tho pros, and cons, of the above question. Tho testimony of an outsider may bo of use. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, returning to England, takes with him a decided opinion upon prohibition. He stales: “I go back a convert. I am a man who takes wine, but none tho less I think this generation might do a noble thing to give up its comforts, if so doing will help save the next generation from tho miseries resulting from drinking to excess. There is little drinking here (America) to-day compared (o what (hero used to be. Today, if you want liquor, you have to go and' find it. Formerly it came looking for von.” —I am, etc., * E.A.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18687, 17 October 1922, Page 2
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132AMERICA AND PROHIBITION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18687, 17 October 1922, Page 2
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