To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuxa Day News."
Sin,—In your article in to-day's issue on Prohibition you quote, as I understand with approval, the result of the investigations of a New York mittee on Prohibition that " prohibition leads to illicit trade worse than the original" and a0 on.
Passing by the question who these fifty independent gentlemen were, whether teetotalers or not; and whether it was possible to get fifty men who were neutral with no opinion one way or the other, which I doubt, in which case some would be just as likely to have @ prejudice against it as others for it, I would like to ask two little questions.
First—If the consumption of drink is immi ion how is it unanimously against it? The business of drivksellers is to sell drink. If, therefore, teetotalers have played into their hands so that the illicit trade great as the oni the drink sellers are not satisfied Inst men the enemy are when
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