AMERICAN PROHIBITION
THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT. A PLEBISCITE ADVOCATED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April 23. Mr Pierre Dupont, one of America’s most noted industrialists, who is closely identified with those in association against the prohibition amendment, told the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee that a younger generation had grown up since prohibition was established, and it now comprised a third of the nation’s voters. These young people, he said, should be allowed to pass judgment on the Eighteenth Amendment. “By what Republican doctrine,” he asked, “can these men and women be deprived of a vote on a question which is now-more active than it was on the day that it was supposed to he settled forever?” RESULT OF NEWSPAPER POLL. NEW YORK, April 22. (Received April 23, at 5,5 p.m.}^ A poll taken on the prohibition issue by the newspaper Literary Digest, in which 3,705,742 ballots were cast, resulted in 1,902,745 for enforcement of the prohibition law, 1,105,683 for modification, and 1,507,314 for repeal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21010, 26 April 1930, Page 13
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166AMERICAN PROHIBITION Otago Daily Times, Issue 21010, 26 April 1930, Page 13
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