PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 24, 23 October 1920, Page 9

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

BRITISH COLUMBIA REVERSES DRY VOTE RESULT OF PLEBISCITE By Teleurarh-Preiß AMoclation-Oopyrlrt* Ottawa, October 21. British Columbia has reversed (he Pro- ' liibition vote of four years ago by «F----majority of 24,000 in a total poll of 200,000. It is claimed that the vote shows that the people are sick of tho system whereby liquor could bo obtained through physicians' prescriptions for alleged ailments, which often did not exisr, British Columbix and Quobec are noff tho only wet provinces fn Canada.— Reuter.

Vancouver, October 21. The plebiscite on Wednesdav resulted: For continuance of Prohibition ... 40,(100 For Government sale 73,000 Six hundred email returns have not been received—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. THE STATES PROHIBITION DESCRIBED AS "FARCE." London, October 21. The "Morning Post's" correspondent at Washington states: Mr. A Maurice Low, of the Philadelphia "Public Lcd T ger," after exhaustive' investigations, concludes'ttia», prohibition in'the large cities, especially New York, is a farce. This is partly .admitted by the prohibition authorities. The majority of Now Yorkers are "anti-pussyfoot," and are resisting a law which a minority imposed on the majority. They do not see any virtue in compulsory abstention, and do not regard evasions of the law as ft crime. Other, factors are the venality of the mon appointed to enforce the law', and the illicit traffic. The regulations permitting chemists to prescribe alcohol are abused, audi there is an extensive traffic in forged permits. Mr. Low describes the operations of an eificientlyorgunised whisky ring in New York, which brings buyers and sellers together. Large deals in whisky at prices ranging from thirty-two .to eighty shillings per quart, are easily arranged, and ingenious ruses are adopted, which the authortfles claim they are powerlfss to stop. -Aus.-N Z. Cable Assn.