American Residents' Views oft 18th Amendment Following the recent report of [President Hoover's committee on: the present situation as regards prohibition in the United States and the enforcement of the prohibition amendment by the—government [which had resulted in 80,000 arrests and' the discovery of "thousands" of routes over Which liquor was smuggled into the United States from Canada and Mexico, the "North-China Daily News" sought the opinion of several Americans picked at random in Shanghai on the prohibition question in general, Their opinions are as fol Enforcement Impossible Mr, William S. Fleming, "I bé- lieve' that. prohibition is beneficial to the labouring classes. At the same time 1 am of the opinion that complete and strict enforcement of the prohibition law as it now stands is an impossibility. It is Jone of those things which is dificult eaxry out though the people behind it may be conscientious in their belief in it. At the same time prohibition is a jaw, and I believe that since the people of the United States have accepted that law they should live up to it, When the time comes that they believe it is 1no longer a good law they have th [power within themselves it, But while it is a law it a be upheld,
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