At a. meeting of the Shanghai Women's Christian Temperance Union on Thursday the Rev. Paul Hutchinson spoke on "Liquor Interests In Politics." He (pointed out that liquor got along altogether too well with a certain type of politics. Whether the saloon was the cause of corrupt polities or whether it was the effect voters had not discussed. They saw that where there was the one there was always the other, and they made up_ their minds to get rid of both. It had been a long fight to bring the people to the point where they believed that decent politics was impossible while the liquor traffic remained, and starting with Lincoln the lecturer traced in the most interesting manner the steps that had been taken towards this end. The divorce between liquor and polities, he said, was almost complete. The political fight for prohibition was largely over. The} reporte carried by cable and wire-
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