“Now the people can decide, after more than thirteen years of Prohibition.”

“Surprising the country, the lame-duck Congress, hereto staunchly dry, reverses itself ‘in a stampede toward repeal,’ to permit the people to decide Prohibition’s fate.”

“To kill Prohibition the wets must get thirty-six states to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment. Can they do it?”

“‘No surrender, no retreat, no compromise,’ is their slogan, coined by Edward Dunford, counsel of the Anti-Saloon League. ‘The wet Prohibition repeal program will be fought to a finish at the State capitals, before the people in the election of delegates, and in legal proceedings, if necessary.”


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