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liberty abused AM ERICAN PROBLEM WASHINGTON, May 3. Some American cities have ‘‘gone so wet” since prohibition was repealed that 1 social and administrative conditions have become intolerable. „ Several “dry” leaders as well as “wet advocates agree that prohibition will return unless there is an improvement. Senator Borah, usually very tolerant and long-suffering, declares that the bootleggers are onre again in command of the whole situation, and are “dictating our laws with respect to taxation. Drinking by children and the employment of girls in night clubs has become a national scandal, he says, while Mr. David Walsh, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, who led the fight for the repeal of prohibition through the Senate, declares that Christian people will not tolerate the present conditions, and that a “swing back” to the Eighteenth Amendment must come. Especially he objects to open saloons on Sunday and all night bootlegging.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 7
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