PROHIBITION: "It Is the Law"

PROHIBITION

"It Is the Law"

Mr. Wesley Wait of Newburgh, N. Y., wrote a letter to President Harding urging him to take action if Governor Smith of New York should sign a bill passed by the state legislature to repeal New York's prohibition enforcement law. Said Mr. Wait: " Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of treason, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States."

President Harding, by writing a reply, took the occasion to make known his views on prohibition. His letter is...

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