PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2704, 6 March 1924, Page 3

PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

DR. MAYO’S OPINION. LIQUOR WILL NOT COME BACK. “The first question put to me by most people I meet in Auckland is ‘How are you getting on with Prohibition in America?’ and then they smile," said Dr. W. J. Mayo, of Koehesler, Minnesota, U.S.A., when addressing Ihe Auckland Rotary ("■lull yesterday. “Now I am going to By to answer some of the questions put to me. “Some of your people have asked me whether Slate Control would not l,e better titan Prohibition in America. To that T-reply that this is a moral question. When T was in Vancouver. leaving for New Zealand. I asked a resident how the Government sales were prospering. ‘Oh, great,’ he replied. ‘We have sold Son,ooo dollars worth in a month.’ ‘Do you find then that more people are purchasing liquor under Government control?’ ‘Yes,’ lie replied. ‘You see. the fact that the Government conducts the trade gives it a sort of standing, a certain dignity. “The United States,” continued Dr. Mayo, “will never submit to its Government going into the liquor business, lending it a. sort of standing. “Am 1 for Prohibition,” said Dr. Mayo. “I am all for the laws which my country has passed. 1 am an American. Tam proud of it, and .proud of this great, thing that has come out of the national conscience. In the United States we have pure water supplies and we use them tor drinking. When I go to Italy I drink wine, because pure water cannot be obtained. In France, the same; and if ever I go again to Germany, which I doubt, I will drink beer. But in America we have pure water, and drink it. Every country would rid itself of alcohol if it could get water. “Another question 1 have been asked,” lie added, “is, ‘Do you think the United States is ever going to let liquor back?’ “1 say No. Have faith in the United States, and hi the long- run we will enforce the law.”