The policy of " Down Glasses ! " during the
war was adopted on Thursday week by the United States Senate and will, it is thought, be confirmed by the House of Representatives. The manufacture of spirits has already been forbidden, and the sale of spirits will cease after June next till the Army is demobilized. The manu- facture of beer and wines is to cease after April next, and their sale after June next. The Prohibitionists hope that before the war is ended America will " go dry," for a Federal amendment enforcing Prohibition has already been adopted by Congress and by fourteen State Legislatures out of the thirty-six whose consent is required to form a two-thirds majority of the States. Prohi- bition in peace-time is not our policy, but we are delighted to see that America, in her zeal for economy so that the war may be won quickly, seems likely to make the sacrifice of a habit that Mr. Lloyd George was afraid to ask the British people to make.
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