He calls attention to the Prohibition rider in the District of Columbia Appropriation Bill, "an amendment to the District Bill to foist prohibition upon the people of the District without a referendum," and continuing, says: "The Prohibitionists, with one or two exceptions, refused to listen to suggestions that the legislation be submitted to a vote of the District of Columbia, thus disregarding the principle of self-government which they had agitated so vigorously in local option campaigns." In this attempt to force the people of the District to submit to their dictation, and to keep them from voting upon the measure, the Prohibitionists showed clearly that they were =without regard for the sentiment of the people to be affected=. This was evidently one of those "distinctively moral" questions upon which the people are not supposed to vote--or at least are not to be allowed to vote, if the Prohibitionists can have their way--but in this act at the seat of government, they have, indeed, given proof of their absolute disregard for the principle of self-government which they prate so much about in local option campaigns. They have shown to what lengths they would go, if they could. Mr. Brown is authority for the statement that had this District Bill gone to President Wilson without a provision for a =referendum=, he would have immediately vetoed it. According to Mr. Brown, the Anti-Saloon League is strongly intrenched at Washington. He says that it "maintains at Washington one of the most powerful lobbies ever seen at the National Capital," and regarding its influence upon the nation's law-makers he has this to say: "Its representatives, backed by an organized influence of public opinion, are enabled to dictate the attitude of a considerable number of Congressmen on a pending question, with the result that Congressmen oftentimes are driven to vote against their own views and their own consciencies in favor of measures advocated by the lobby." Mr. Brown gives a very lucid account of the bold and defiant activities of the powerful Anti-Saloon League lobby at Washington--and as to the results, he has this to say: "The harmful effect of such a lobbying enterprise upon our system of government does not admit of controversy." Mr. Brown is convincing to the reader in his conclusions of "Prohibition and Politics" which, to sum up, may be stated as--=A GROWING AND INSIDIOUS POWER IN THE POLITICAL REALM, INIMICAL TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT=. And if a rapidly growing power, which was practically unknown a decade ago, is so great in =politics= and =government= today, what may we expect a decade hence!