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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 26 November 1935, Page 10

A Warning for New Zealai After experiencing fourteen years of prohibition, the American people repealed it by the greatest majority ever recorded on any issue. Shortly after America adopted the Eighteenth Amend- DETAILED VOTING IN 38 STATES merit (prohibition), the Nineteenth Amendment, granting s ‘ atB o!i”' z ’ , e , Michigan .. 850,546 287,931 women the right to vote, was ratified. This step was Wisconsin .. 648,031 141,518 • iii t -L-** •4. 4._ Rhode Island .. 150,297 20,927 considered by prohibitionists to make it impossible for Wyoming 52,957 21,015 prohibition to be repealed. NewJme, .. ] 573,532 _ . . - . ... , Delaware .. 45,615 13,505 To carry repeal it was necessary for a two-thirds n] inois 1,227,668 342,577 majority to be obtained in the Senate and the House £ a " a husetts jj of Representatives, followed by approval of thirty-six Connecticut 236,742 34,816 of the forty-eight States. i owa .. 376,661 249,534 West Virginia .. 218,638 136,552 Prohibition had become so devastating in its consequences California . 319,981 Alftbaniß . . luO ? Zbu / that repeal was carried by overwhelming majorities. Arkansas 67,607 46,242 It must be clearly understood that every man and woman Oregon 136,713 72,854 I of voting age in the thirty-eight States which voted on Arizona .. 155961 I the question had the op’portunity to secretly express their Texas 310J10 195,341 I opinion on prohibition. The result was that with only Vermont .. 41,182 20.714 thirty-eight of the forty-eight States voting, the majority S Caro j ina jj I for repeal (9,767,974) was millions of votes larger than the South Carolina .. 33,074 35,845 ... . - ... ~ ~ Colorado .. 133,096 63,089 majority ever obtained on any other issue with all the Maryland 204,460 45,776 I Minnesota .. 389,879 209,047 I States voting. ldaho 56 656 40)988 . _ . i. . .1 • i » New Mexico .. 53,351 14,041 I The voting in the separate States indicates the wide-spread Virginia .. 99,460 58,518 revulsion of feeling. These are the votes of the people ;; I who knew what prohibition really meant. This should be Pennsylvania .. 1,864,411 583,513 I a warning to New Zealand to keep prohibition out of this Kentucky 386,653 234,417 country. 15,344,950 | Remember America—the facts are dear. It is your dull von cowriNUAid