AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AROUSED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13105, 13 November 1935, Page 4

AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AROUSED.

“REPEAL’’ OBSTACLES OV :a(O.VE. Until recently many pexiple liked to believe that tile advantages ot prohibition in America outw* _ ied th.* disadvantages, but all don * < h s l K ‘lleel when America repea I e-.: the Eighteenth Amendment-. S<» mt« >e was the unpopularity of prohilet . that huge obstacle's were ov.r o in order to ge t rid of it. To re*j>cal prohibition the l • 1 States had to pass a measure twe>-thirds majority rc*comiii« • 'X the repeal* of the Eighteenth Ai • me 1 ut and that measure liad t!:< T • he voted on I>\ is separate States of whic*h liad to ratify it in ♦>!.:• r that the*> Eightccntli Amendn could be' repealed. . History lias now shown that prohibition in practice was such a <.»•!- ossal disaster that in spite « huge constitutional hurdle tin i

and women of the Unite*d State- * so disappointed and disgusted with the* evils and the expense* of th m" great experiment that tin* neee'S.i > majorities were* easily obtaind. America. has paid honvilv fer h r «reat mistake*, and the* object le-so-i should Ik* taken to l.e*art by all t th r countries. New Zealand has n inclination tor such ail expt rim. at. and, it sin* had. slu* certainlv h;K not tho money to pay for it. It th * duty of every New Zealander to x. : lon tin linnet* at the forthcoming I ce*using referendum.