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Show Roosevelt Makes Temperance Plea j Proclamation Gives Pledge To Remove Sal$ jtlegger "Policy of Government To Eliminate Evils of Prohibition Era;" Choate Sets Quotas Quo-tas For Liquor Importation WASHINGTON, Doe. G (U.R The dikes were opened for the legal entry into the United States of foreign liquor today as officials moved to carry out a pledge by President Roosevelt Roose-velt to turn the tide of prohibition repeal against the bootlegger boot-legger and saloon to the objective of temperance, law ami and order. The president made his pledge in a formal proclamation proclama-tion of repeal. He issued it last night, an hour after Utah ended constitutional prohibition. Simultaneously, Chairman Joseph H. Choate, Jr., struck the first blow in the govern- 'Jment's new battle against bootleggers boot-leggers with announcement of initial allotments of liquor import quotas. Tax Burden Shifted The president's proclamation contained a ponderous legal statement shifting part of the recovery re-covery taxes from business to liquor. Then he appealed, personally, person-ally, to "the good sense of the American people not to bring upon up-on themselves the curse of excessive exces-sive use of intoxicating liquor." Such a course would be "a living liv-ing reproach to us all," and detrimental detri-mental to the health, morals and social integrity of the nation, Mr. Roosevelt said. After hailing repeal as "a return re-turn of individual freedom," the president sought the cooperation of all citizens to "remove forever from our midst the menace of the bootlegger." "The policy of the government," Mr. Roosevelt said, "will be more to see to it that the social and political evils that have existed in the pre-prohibition era shall not be revived nor permitted again ta exist." Allotments Set Choate immediately announced that first allotments of import quotas had been made on a basis of a four-month supply in the period per-iod from 1910 to 1914. If they are insufficient, they are "subject to additional allotments as trade negotiations ne-gotiations are completed," Choate said. He revealed he had been working 18 hours a day with Ray C. Miller of the agricultural adjustment ad-justment administration to make allotments for the initial post-repeal trade. The president asked the country coun-try to confine its liquor purchases "to those dealers or agencies which have been duly licensed by state or federal license." |