AMERICAN PROHIBITION.
OFFICIAL’S HOSTILE VIEW. New York, June 21. Mr. Weeks, Secretary for War, speaking at Philadelphia, said: “Throughout the nation I have found a general sentiment in favor of an amendement of the Volstead Act. People want beer and light wines and, if I were to confess my own opinion, I think they should have them. I favor a modification of thia law. I believe it is the cause of most of the unrest in this country to-day. Prohibition is a subject that cannot be side-stepped.” Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson has sailed for England, en route for New Zealand, at the invitation of the league for the suppression of the liquor traffic to combat the propaganda of the New Zealand wets, who claim that prohibition is not successful in the United States.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1922, Page 5
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132AMERICAN PROHIBITION. Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1922, Page 5
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