THE Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association met at the Hotel Astor in New York City on March 18. One of their official utterances was the following: “The events of the last twelve months have created a situation more grave than has ever before confronted our trade. Formerly we were called upon to oppose town and county option. To-day we must combat state and nation-wide prohibition. Originally our opponents were few and scattered. To-day they are many and united.” So strongly in jeopardy did they regard their business that they unanimously adopted a resolution “appealing to all interested in the life of the business to work with head and money to save it.” It is well that the gentlemen on that side of the question should recognize the strength and the determination of the temperance forces, and it is to be hoped that these may remain “many and united” until the liquor traffic is placed under the ban of prohibition law everywhere. The traffic is both a nuisance and a crime-breeder. It fills our jails, our penitentiaries, and insane asylums. It takes competent young men and works them over into vagabonds. It has no other history. It has not a single redeeming quality. Why permit it to continue?