a notable occurrence more or less Hardly a week passes without
closely affecting prohibition. The reader is doubtless aware that the various foreign steamship companies, after putting to the test the declared intention of the U. S. Government not to permit the bringing of intoxicating liquor into American ports, even under seal or in bond, are contenting themselves with leaving European ports with just enough liquor for the outward voyage, leaving it to eastbound passengers to bring their own liquor on board, which they are regularly doing, a fact that applies just as much to Americans as to others. It is generally expected. that Congress will agree to some modification of the law, and in view of the fanaticism of the prohibitionists it is thought that there is a better chance of that being done if foreign ships have in the meantime been conforming to the law and not even making an international] question of what they regard as an utterly unwarrantable invasion of their rights.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.