PROHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 5

PROHIBITION

RESULTS IN AMERICA AND CANADA LORD NORTHCLIFFE’S VIEWS By Telegraph—Prose Association—Copyright London, September 18. Lord Northcliffe, in a special article in the "Daily Mail,” on "Prohibition, as I’ve Seen It in America and. Canada,” says: "It is another word for a subterfuge of a humiliating and demoralising nature. Drink is the absorbing topic of conversation among Americans, and a universal and monotonous theatrical jest. Friends assure pie that this perpetual talk on the subject drives people to drink who had never done so before. It was not pleasing to mo to see my American friends, with long and distinguished public records, locking the door and producing a flask. 1 Nevertheless, this was universal. All the best French wines, Scotch whiskies, and English gins are readily purchasable, the dealers making enormous profits. One of my companions dined on the roof of a great New York hotel. Cocktails were served, and champagne flowed as never in London since the war began. Who had been bribed? The police, of course. The Magistracy? I don’t knoW; but there is illicit drinking, selling, and bribing very high up. There is an abundance of sham drinks in the small restaurants. I thought, here is a prohibition company drinking lime juice and soda, lemon squash, orange crush, and grape juice. I did not know that each had a large quantity of alcohol. The price of lemon squash is 7s. ~6d. New York is riddled with drinking dens and illicit stills, where horrible poisons are manufactured for the residents in cheaper localities. A distinguished /professor said to mo that parts ,of America had been always more or less dry places, but such as New York had never been, and never will be dry. I went to America with an open mind, and left convinced that prohibition as I saw it was not the right solution of the drink problem.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HUGE LIQUOR MANUFACTORY DISCOVERED BY FEDERAL OFFICIALS. New York, September 18. The Federal liquor officials have discovered a huge manufactory, employing hundreds of hands, and operating illicit! drug stores. This organisation is feeding half thq United States with whisky, gin, and riim, falsely labelled as from London and Cuba. —Reuter.