PROHIBITION ADVOCATE.
WELCOME IN WELLINGTON. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. A prohibition, meeting was held to-night uj welcome Mr “Pussyfoot” .1 oilmen, who arrived hv the Maunganni from Sydney, and farewell die Rev. Hammond. The Mayor presided over a crowded audience, including a number of members of Parliament. , , , ’I lie platform speakers received loud applause and cheers. -Mr Johnson told now America bad tried prohibition in town, countrv and State for over fitly years, anil then when 12.000 towns had carried it in 32 States, the )>eople decided to make U nation-wide. Jhe constitution required that the law should be carried by a twothirds vote in the Federal legislature and by a tbree-lonrlhs vote in the State legislatures It. was actually carried by an 85 per cent vote in the Federal legislature and l, v 45 Stales out of 48. lie quoted the opinions of Stale Governors in favour of prohibition and declared it. bad come to stav.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2480, 14 September 1922, Page 1
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159PROHIBITION ADVOCATE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2480, 14 September 1922, Page 1
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