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KNOCKS FOR NORTHCLHTE-NO. 3. Lord Northcliffe is very much,shocked, declaring prohibition in Hie U.S.A, to be a "subterfuge of a humiliating and demoralising nature” resulting in "illicit drinking, selling, and bribing high up.’ In passing—we have "illicit drinking ia N.Z. There must have been soma demoralising bribing in license days, for in 1908 a liquor trade rcpre-entatlve boasted that in Chicago. where tha Trade had "The Legislature well in hand,” "600 saloons wore open all day Sunday in spite of the Sunday closing law. AV'hen one hotel, Hm Blackstoncg closed on Sunday, us required by law, a. movosnent was started in the Trade to Ixiycott it. , , A confidential report of the Licensed ''miuallcrs' Defence League of London «ays that wliaf brought about prohibition in the U.S.A, was —this is an actual quotation from the report—" Drink was illicitly manufactured on a gigantio scale.' Most, of it was rank poison. Secret drinking clubs and private saloons were tis plentiful as blackberries. The whole licensing syste'm was based on a rotten nnd insecure foundation. Tho police were lax. Extraordinary methods were adopted by the stealthy io defraud the revenue.” So there you are' That was license in the U.S.A. BEFORE prohibition. The liquor people themselves sav that all those thingfl which Lord Northcliffe professes are » result of prohibition were actually there before prohibit ion was introduced. The fact is prohibition is prohibiting far better than regulation ever regulated.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity (15). —AxirL