Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-21 | Page 4 | Beer Vote

THE BEER VOTE HAT Congress abruptly turned down the I JL recent proposal to revise the act In order to permit the the sale of beer need surpriSe surprise surprise sur sur- L prise no one The Th Democratic platform may the wet tide be demand such a measure may 1 rising and states formerly dry may be voting for wet candidates but there was no real reason to suppose that the Congress now holding office had become overnight appreciably 1 any wetter than it had been before Each house has had a substantial dry majority majority majority ma ma- ever since this Congress was was' el elected I For such a Congress to reverse itself and pass passa a beer bill would have meant a disregard of Its own members' members convictions Incompatible with democratic government If the people of the United States expect to get beer let them go after it by electing congressmen and senators who will vote for It not not by y trying to g get t men already elected to swallow their convictions and vote for a measure measure measure mea mea- sure they have always s opposed I