U.S.A. LIQUOR

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1928, Page 1

U.S.A. LIQUOR

AL SMITH’S VIEWS

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(Received this day at 10 a.m.) NEW' YORK, Sept. 29. At Milwaukee, Mr A 1 Smith (Democratic candidate), in an • address gave a full exposition of' his prohibition views. He said political experience was keeping thousands of mei in public life who also thought as In did, from expressing their views. 1 was a great moral issue. “We hav< never had prohibition in this countr\ in the sense that hard liquor wai banished from it. There is as much if not more, than there was befor, prohibition. I claim the Eighteen!! Amendment .of the Volstead Law i producing wholesale corruption anion ifficials charged with enforcement. I is a well known fact that there is a abundance of liquor in Washington i self. Millions of people in Uni tec States disagree with Air 'Hoover, tha prohibition is a noble experiment.’ He advocated a definition of whai constitutes an intoxicating beveragand expressed tile belief that hare liquor would be driven from the conn try, if the people could he assured o' an alcoholic beverage declared by com mon sense and science to lie non-in toxicating. He asked for an amend ment to the Eighteenth permitting the States to decide prohibitum foi themselves on the basis of a State wide referenda and expressed 'himsell as against a return of the saloon. He concluded: “If elected it. will hi my duty to lay this .matter before every community I can reach, and let them make their own decisions.” In the meantime, however, he would do everything .humanly possible to enforce the law as it stood.