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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 9

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A Warning for New Zealand After experiencing fourteen years of prohibition, the American people repealed it by the greatest • majority ever recorded on any issue. Shortly after America adopted the Eighteenth OETAiLED » STATES • Amendment (prohibition), the Nineteenth Amendment, granting .women the right to vote, was ratified. This step was considered wuconsin 643,031 I4i3is by prohibitionists to make it impossible for Rhodehiand 150,297 20,927 prohibition to be repealed. NewXXy 573’532 90,733 To carry repeal it was necessary for a two- .kmm thirds majority to be obtained in the Senate minois 1,227,668 342377 and the Houseof Representatives, followed by approval of thirty-six of the forty-eight States. Connecticut 236,742 34316 Prohibition had become so devastating in its 2193 S consequences that repeal was carried by over- ,2>a,6M im.«2 whelming majorities. It must be clearly Alabama j 00.269 70,63 i understood that every man and woman of TenneS!tec 1 26,948 120,154 voting age in the thirty-eight States which °^ e z g ° n n a *37343 H 323 voted on the question had the opportunity to Tg“° un iiojlo *195341 -secretly express their opinion on prohibition. washy 5.6,457 211,175 The result was that with only thirty-eight of Maine 114,792 53,076 the forty-eight States voting, the majority for south *35345 repeal (9,767,974) was millions of votes larger Colorado 133,096 63,089 than the majority ever obtained on any other 389'379 209’047 issue with all the States voting. '^° Mexico ggt The voting in the separate States indicates Virginia 99,460 SB,siB the wide-spread revulsion of feeling. These gorMa JW are the votes of the people who knew what Pennsylvania 1t864,41ll t 864,4ll 533,513 prohibition really meant. This should be a £^ ucJry 386,653 234’4*7 warning to New Zealand to keep prohibition out of this country. Remember America—the facts are clear “HOLD FAST TO LIBERTY”