The conclusions arrived at are very simple finally. The Volstead Act may be made to apply to the Philippines and China by Act of Congress. Americans are not in the liquor business in China to any appreciable extent and would not be greatly effected. The enforcement of the law would be difficult but not impossible and would not prevent an American citizen drinking if he chose to in his home, with his English friends, or at English Clubs and restaurants. Its greatest effect would be in the Philippine Islands, if it should be made to extend there, because in such a case, it would be possible so to prohibit the traffic in liquors as to make the Islands as dry as the United States.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.