PUBLIC OPINION asks the question in the light of what episcopal Bishop Potter and Dr. Rainsford of New York City have to say on the subject. Thus Dr. Potter is reported:— Wherever it has triumphed, it has educated a race of frauds and hypocrites. In Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont to-day, by actual statistics, the consumption of certain preparations is larger than anywhere else in the country. One of these is a sarsaparilla which has 17 per cent. of alcohol, another is a compound with 27 per cent. of alcohol, another is a bitters with 61 per cent. of alcohol. Besides that, everybody who knows anything about the administration of the law knows that it is a grotesque farce. It has been a huge failure in the city of New York. We are going to persist in this policy, to screw up all the front doors on Sunday and open the back door; we are going to nurse a race of hypocrites, to furnish an opportunity to the police to exact a bonus, and to close the door to the manly and Christian method of dealing with intemperance. Prohibition is an impudent fraud and an impudent failure. Education, elevation, transformation, are notes which the church should learn to strike. The trouble is, the reformers want to make the people right by law. Then they leave the law to carry out itself. On the committee of fifty, I wish you could have heard the reports of the women representing the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, all good women, but doing the devil's work. It was appalling. Now all that is said about the sale of alcohol-laden medicine in Maine may be true; that does not affect the question. Is not Maine better for the law after all? That can not be called prohibition which does not prohibit. There are in Maine laws prohibiting murder and theft; but it is a fact that there are many crimes committed there forbidden by these laws. Are they a failure? Should they be repealed? Sunday-closing is a different thing. It is a compromise at its best, having a religious basis. It is in the interest of religion, fraud, and hypocrisy. It is not prohibition even for Sunday. It never has been. As to Dr. Rainsford's remark, which is the most “appalling” the work of the W. C. T. U. for temperance, or the work of the saloons in New York City alone?