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...Senate, Senator John James Blaine of Wisconsin celebrated by offering a resolution for the outright repeal of the 18th Amendment, admitted that it had no chance of passage. Senate Borah urged that the resolution be brought to a vote "to make it clear that this amendment is here to stay." The author of the amendment, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, read a carefully prepared rhetorical speech in praise of its "triumphant tread" to an almost empty Senate chamber. South Carolina's Senator Blease predicted full Dry enforcement "if we had a first class deputy sheriff, about three constables...
...speakers compare the "Newport Massacre" with the slaying of Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770, by British redcoats. Market-men in white aprons and straw hats heard William H. Mitchell, chairman, exclaim: "When stark wholesale murder stalks abroad under the guise of any law, in God's name repeal that...
...second of these acts which it is now proposed to repeal. We are not asked to vote on a proposal to repeal the first, which forbids the sale or exposure for sale of all intoxicating liquors. Even if the proposed repeal is carried, that first act will remain in force. It will be as illegal even according to our state law, to sell liquor or expose it for sale as it is now. Anyone who sells liquor in Massachusetts will still be a bootlegger even according to state...
What is to be accomplished by repealing the supplementary act while leaving the first one in full force? About the only thing which it could possibly accomplish would be to make it easier for bootleggers. It might make liquor more abundant and cheap, but it would still be bootleg liquor. If the proposed repeal had been drafted by the King of the Bootleggers himself, it could scarcely have been more to his liking. If the state should repeal its law forbidding manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquor, state and local police would not feel like interfering with illicit stills, however...
...lowest? Would that give them a little advantage over Massachusetts, or would it give Massachusetts a little advantage over them? They who think that an increase in sobriety, in these days of powerful as well as delicate machinery, is a disadvantage to our industries will, of course, vote for repeal. They who think otherwise should at least hesitate before voting to make bootleg liquor more abundant