U.S. PROHIBITION LAWS.
PLEA FOR MODERATION. WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.—The number of ponding prohibition eases overcrowding the courts grew from 22,000 at the end of last year to 25,000 at the end of October, according to an official announcement. General James liarbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America, in the course of an Armistice .Day speech, declared that a decent measure of personal liberty on milder forms of beverage, and with an appropriate tax, would allow of tlie eaiicinellatioii of the income tax in America. “Whether the powers of our Government shall be legislative, judicial, and executive., as contemplated by the Constitution, or distributed amongst a wilderness of commissions and committees, at all times outside the Constitution, is the choice which the American people must make,” said the speaker, adding that the Volstead Act. was far wider in application than ever was contemplated by the Eighteenth Amendment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 3
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