AMERICAN LIQUOR LAWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN LIQUOR LAWS.

NEW CONTROVERSY,

ATTACK ON PROHIBITION. (Australian and N Z. Cable Association.) NEW. YORK, May 6. The controversy regarding Mr Butlers speech attacking Prohibition has developed into a new turn, it being suggested that Mr Butler may be angling for nomination for the vice-Presidency. While this motive has been authoritatively denied, observers point out that President Cbolidge considered that the Prohibitionists might benefit by having as a candidate an eminent citizen, who was liberal on Prohibition matters. This would, be especially valuable if the Democratic convention should offer consolation to the so-called "wets." Meantime the extent of popular feeling on the question may be judged l from Mr Butler's receipt of over ten thousand communications.

One politician, angered by Mr Butler's stand on Prohibition, has announced that he would be. withdrawing his two sons from Columbia University. A local Methodist Ministers' Association, reprenting nearly two hundred ministers, adopted a resolution censuring Mr Butler and saying : "We protest again his attitude regarding Prohibition, which is not the right kind of patriotic example to set before thousands of young men and women training for the citizenship at Columbia." The resolution further requested the trustees to dismiss Mr Butler. The trustees, however, unanimously refused.