PROHIBITION.
(By Cable.) LONDON, April 9. " Pussyfoot" Johnson is returning to America. Interviewed by the Daily Chronicle, he said he was going back to tell the "soft-pedal wets" that there had been a big slide in public opinion towards prohiition, widened by a panic in the liquor organisations, which were spending enormous sums of money, most of which was wasted, in organised roughhouse work at prohibition meetings. Also, it had done liquor a lot of harm. "Among my converts," he added, "are English titled folk, members of the House of Commons, and representatives of the largest trade corporations. There is also a great growing secret army of men and women who are moderate drinkers, but who would vote prohibition if put to the test."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3448, 13 April 1920, Page 22
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124PROHIBITION. Otago Witness, Issue 3448, 13 April 1920, Page 22
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