PROHIBITION IN U.S.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19448, 6 November 1925, Page 7

PROHIBITION IN U.S.

ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE’S POLICY ‘•WET” OFFENSIVE TO BE MET. ‘‘WINNING ALL ALONG THE LINE.” By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright Received November 5, 8.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. A Chicago message states that the Anti-Saloon League’s bi-annual convention to-morrow will advance the following legislative programme for consideration by the forthcoming session of the United States Congress: That Prohibition enforcement agents be placed in the Civil Service; that gaol sentences be given to offenders engaged in commercialised illegal liquor traffic; that aliens convicted of violating the Prohibition Act or Narcotics Act 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 the Federal Government t-i cope with the larger question of the control of the supply of liquor and alcohol.’’ Mr Wheeler stated that forty national “wet” organisations were mobilising against the Prohibition Amendment, but, he added, “we are winning all along the line, and if we hold our front unbroken we will finish the task and crown with victory the hopes of a century and the concentrated labour of thirty years.”