HARD LIQUOR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 69, 1 October 1928, Page 9

HARD LIQUOR

PLENTY IN AMERICA SMITH FOR PROHIBITION SUGGESTS' AMENDMENT' United Press' Association—By Electric thk* ' graph—Copyright. Australian Press. Association, NEW YORK, 29th September. In an address at Milwaukee, Mr. Al, Smith, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, gave a full exposition of Ms prohibition views. .He said that political experience was keeping thousands of men in public life, who also thought as. he did, from expressing ' their views. It was a great moral Ib? * sue-.. ,f Wff have never had prohibition.-^ in this country in the sense that hard liquor was banished from it. There is as much, as if' nrfl more than, there was before. Prohibition. I claim that the Eighteenth Amendment,, the Ypl«. stead. Law,, is. the producer of wholesale corruption among officials charge* with. , its enforcement. Tt is a vrell-Itnowii feet that there is am abundance of liquor in Washington; itself. Millions of- people in the. United State*, digagree with Mr. Hoover that prohibition, ia' a noble experiment."1 ' ' .' Mr. Smith advocated a definition ot what constituted am, intoxicating; beVerage,an.d expreaaed the belief that hard liquor would be driven, from the country "if the people conlct 6e assured of an alcoholic beverage dfeelared by commas-sense: and. science to bo non-intoxicating." He asked for aa amendment to the Eighteenth Amendment in the Constitution' permitting the ' States: to, decide Piohibitiaa» for themselves, on. tha basis, of State-wide, referenda, .and expressed himßelf as agains^ the return of the saloon-. ■ Mr., Smith concluded:: "I£ elected it will be my duty to lay this..matter.before every community I can reach,, and let them make their own decisions." In the meantime, however,; he would do everything humanly possible, ta enforce the law as'it stoodi -'