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Show CHARGES REGARDING LIQUOR ARE DENIED Accusations Made by American Physician Physi-cian Called Gross and Ignorant Libel in London. By International News Service. LONDON', June 10. Criticisms of British Brit-ish drink policy made by American prohibitionists pro-hibitionists are dealt with by Mr. Arthur Khlrwell, M- I'., 'n an Issue of Monthly Kotes, published by the Temperance Legislation Legis-lation league. "Apart from the reduction (by c.0 per cent) of the output of beer, and the lower gravity of the beers brewed (on both of which points Great Britain may calmly face a comparison), the United States has done little in the way of general restriction. restric-tion. The hours of sale and the peneral provisions of the licensing law in the licensed states are what they were. There ia no material for an Indictment of this country io these directions. "The temperance papers of America tell quite another story in these matters from that declaimed in British pulpits and on British platforms. "Dr. Sheldon's rhetorical accusations of 'poisoning American boys' when they land here, and of a 'terrible condition of things' prevailing in this country, are a gross, if ignorant, libel. If we say this quite frankly, it is not because we seek to justify the continuance of brewing in this country and in America, but because we know as a matter of unchallengeable fact that the conditions here in regard to sobriety are not 'terrible' and do not justify jus-tify Dr. Sheldon's railing accusations." |