PROHIBITION: The Issue Defined

Senator Fess of Ohio made public a letter to Governor Smith of New York, criticising the memorial recently sent by him at the direction of the state legislature to Congress favoring "wine and beer." Senator Fess believes that the time for compromising is past, that enforcement is the only issue in the prohibition question now, and that the American people are overwhelmingly in favor of the law as it stands.

"The people of this country," said the Senator from Ohio, "are not against prohibition, but are for it. The 2.75 beer compromise was...

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