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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 14

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UNITED STATES ELECTIONS Prohibition NOT A FACTOR Destitute of sound argument in favour of prohibition, the New Zealand Alliance makes the ridiculous assertion that Mr. Hoover’s Election as .President is a prohibition victory. In doing so the New Zealand Alliance is merely making a dying clutch at a flimsy straw. Not only must it be remembered that Mr. Hoover’s party has been returned in a majority at the last seven United States Elections; but it must be remembered that the prohibition planks in both the Republican and Democratic Parties' platforms were identical at this Election. Here are the planks:— SMITH’S PARTY ( Democratic ) “Speaking for the national Democracy, this convention pledges the party and its nominees to an honest effort to enforce the eighteenth amendment and all other provisions of the federal constitution and all law enacted pursuant thereto.’* HOOVER’S PARTY (Republican ) ** The Republican party pledges itself and its nominees to the observance and vigorous enforcement of this provision cf the constitution.” With these identical prohibition planks in their respective platforms the Democratic and Republican Parties voted practically the same as if the prohibition problem did not exist. These two Parties are not and never have been opposed on the prohibition problem, which cuts clean across party lines as in New Zealand. Both candidates for the Presidency had no option but to include enforcement planks in their party platforms, because prohibition had been embedded in the Constitution without reference to the people, and their oath of office gave them no alternative but to uphold the Constitution. The People of the United States have never had a chance to vote against prohibition. When the Canadians were given the chance, they repealed it. f It is only when a nation-wide referendum is taken for or against the repeal of prohibition, that the world will realise what a positive failure prohibition is. J And what did Australia say ? The referendum held in New South Wales in September, ONLY TWO MONTHS AGO, showed a majority of 527,957 FOR CONTINUANCE. Vote with the Empire for Temperance Vote Continuance