HOW PROHIBITION WAS REJECTED IN U. S.A.
MANY MILLIONS NEVER VOTED AT ALL. Prohibition was not repealed by a popular ad hoc vote of the people, but by the election of State Conventionists. The result of the Convention contests showed that out of an electorate of 61.369,239. only 15,272,406 cast their votes for Repeal candidates. No fewer than 39,704,118 took no part at all In the elections, while 5.528.683 voted for Prohibition candidates. It cannot lx* said, therefore, with any degree of honesty, that a majority of the people of the I'nited States demanded the repeal of National Prohibition. Then again, the vote was taken during the most severe depression the I’nited States has ever experienced. This was an opportunity for the political wets to declare, “Whatever l>eneflt there was in prohibition or evil resulting from the existence of the liquor traffic, the nation needs revenue, and that which conies from liquor will help balance the Rudget.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 41, Issue 490, 18 July 1936, Page 3
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