DRY REPEALER IS INTRODUCED BY SEN. BLAINE
DRY REPEALER IS INTRODUCED BY SEN. BLAINE Charges Prohibition Proven a Failure in Decade of Trial In U. S. (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—A resolution was introduced in the senate...
...It is bound to be aa is any attempt to regulate the habits and customs of the people by law...
...The 12 countries which had adopted prohibition have repudiated it and abandoned the ineffective and unworkable plan of trying to make people good by law...
...The recent suggestions of the president admit, that, it is wrong in principle and nothing can make it right...
...Blaine's dry law repealer" was Introduced as a joint resolution, which to accomplish Its purposes must be passed by two successive congresses and then ratified by two-thirds of the states...
...It has been demonstrated that prohibition is a failure...
...Of course, the government will worry along with prohibition for a while, but the time has come for the prohibitionists to make good or surrender to horse sense...
...Repeal Only Solution "Repeal of the eighteenth amendment is the only solution...
...BLAINE Charges Prohibition Proven a Failure in Decade of Trial In U. S. (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—A resolution was introduced in the senate this week for completely wiping the prohibition amendment out of the federal constitution by Sen...
...This Is true in spite of the fact that the government machinery for the last nine years has been under control of presidents in sympathy with the law and with a congress that gave everything asked...
...12 Repail Lawn In offering his resolution, Blaine declared that "15 countries have adopted prohibition in the last two decades, hut 12 have .since repealed it...
...This is the 10th anniversary of so-called prohibition...
...The president In his report to congress Monday showed that more than half the arrests In the United States are for violations of the liquor laws...
...Finland, Prince Edward Island and the United States alone are still attempting its enforcement, he said...
...Ten years ago we adopted prohibition for this country...
...John J. Blaine, of Wisconsin...
...Modification of the Volstead act would help, but the ultimate solution Is bound to be found in the repeal of the eighteenth amendment...
Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8
