AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS' BITTER EXPERIENCE.
AMERICA EXPELS PROHIBITION BY RECORD MAJORITY.
No one knows more about what prohibition does and does not do than the pcoplo who have lived under the conditions imposed by this tyrannical law. Theorists may theorise and idealists may idealise, but "facts are stubborn things," and the fact of thu failure of prohibition was made abundantly clear by the American vote on repeal.
Every man and woman of voting age in the thirty-eight States concerned' had the opportunity to vote secretly to retain or repeal prohibition.
The vote for repeal was ... 15,344,950 The vote against repeal was 5,576,970
The majority for repeal was 9,767,974
This majority was the largest ever recorded in the United States on any issue whatever, including Presidential elections when all forty-eight States vote. Only a great nation-wide revulsion of feeling made repeal possible, and it is significant that the Eighteenth Amendment (prohibition) is the only Amendment which has ever been deleted from the Constitution of the United Stales.
It is the duty of every elector to vote for Continuance on Polling Day by striking out the two bottom lines. —Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 13
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188AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS' BITTER EXPERIENCE. Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 13
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