ACTIVE CAMPAIGN
"WETS". AND "DRYS" IN
AMERICA
"WASHINGTON, 27th April.
The push against has assumed gigantic proportions and the "wets" are besieging Congress' with proposals for the loosening of the!terms of the "dry" law, ; v ,
.The Prohibitionists are almost5 equally active^ and 29 liquor Bills arid resolutions are under consideration by the Judiciary • Committee of the . Senate alone, while scores of others are before other committees.; . - .
It is difficult to imagine any mode of attack on the., "dry" law that the "wets", have not'employed. '■.-'■■■
The Bills, range from a flat declaration that.'' the Eighteenth Amendment is hereby repealed "-to" turning the complete control of- manufacture and sale of liquor over .to the individual States. . ';.:.■- :.'-. ;.. ~. ... ..'
The " drys " are not idle.; They are demanding that the Jones Act, passed two years ago, authorising five years' imprisonment and a fine.of £2000 for illegal selling, shall apply also to the purchaser, and they' want .fruit juice and home-brew eliminated from the list of beverages permitted.
Women campaigners are particularly active. One witness .before the. Senate Committee declared that "rich society women are determined/to get their liquor." ' ' ■ " ':■■'. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 110, 11 May 1932, Page 7
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182ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 110, 11 May 1932, Page 7
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