PROHIBITION CONDEMNED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 24 December 1914, Page 8

PROHIBITION CONDEMNED.

"A WAVii OF HYSTERIA By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 23, 11 p.m. Washington, December 23. The House of (Representatives discussed national prohibition, KcprusonUitivo Mann proposing that the Prohibition Amendment Constitution bo submitted to State Conventions specially culled for the purpose. [Representative Vollemcr .stigmatized the prohibition movement as a wave of hysteria, likely to destroy four billion dollars' worth of property. Prohibitionists should denounce George Washington, as a brewer, Thomas Jefferson, as a distiller, and Abraham Lincoln, as a bar-keeper, and Jesus 3iimself, who turned water into wine, and not into grape-juice, winch was not likely to 1 ave satisfied those wedding guests who "were accustomed to something with a ''stick" in it. Grape-juice never added anything to a wedding or a wake. Mr Mann's proposal was defeated bv 193 to 137. NATIONAL PROHIBITION DEFEATED. Received 24, 1.5 a.m. Washington, December 2S. Representative Ilobson's resolution, favouring national prohibition, finally failed, tlie vote being 107 for and IS!) against. Although there was an apparent majority, a two-thirds vote of the House was necessary for the adoption of the resolutions. I.lwindf -2Senleu latedg shrd ear.in uu