AMERICAN PROHIBITION
INDUSTRIALIST’S VIEW VOTE SHOULD BE TAKEN WASHINGTON, April 23. Mr Pierre Dupont, one of America's most noted industrialists and closely identified with those in association against the prohibition amendment, told the House Judiciary Committee that the younger generation had grown up since prohibition was established and now comprised a third of the nation’s voters. These young people should be allowed to pass judgment on the Eighteenth Amendment. 44 By what Republican doctrine,” he asked, “can these men and women be deprived of a vote on the question which is now more active than the day it was supposed to be settled for ever!”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 15
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105AMERICAN PROHIBITION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 15
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