Show ALL ATT VITAL CONSIDERATIONS LOUIS MARCUS ARCUS almost the moment mo- mo M MAYOR ment he returned from frn l Washington ashington r where he hc succeeded admirably in ill n starting the machinery for this city's highly import important public pub pub- lic lie works works' I program lined up emphatically with repeal forces He lIc caU called d attention to vital ital considerations which challenge intelligent ae- ae tion on th the paramount question to come before l the e voters on November 7 argueS forcefully and ra- ra Mayor 1 Marcus arcus argues Abandonment of the futile experiment experiment mentis ment is justified and ud c demanded upon the high ground of morality The rhe prohibition era has bas witnessed descent Into moral decay pro- pro affecting the nations nation's youth It has bred unparalleled lawlessness and official corruption It has lias placed millions of wealth in the hands of the underworld with which it property has financed its against and the social order The uncontrolled l d liquor traffic has bled the taxpayer to meet the increased d cost of policing th the nation of maintaining overburdened overburdened courts courts' and of housing and feeding jail and prison inmates Meanwhile ile the tax burIen burden bur bur- den Ien has grown as citizens have gone into their thin purses to make up lip for the loss loss' of revenue rev rev- once realized from front a lawfully controlled business If there were no other reasons for returning to rationalism repeal repeals is demanded hy by y consideration of the economic and moral factors alone But be beyond ond these even there are arc fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental grounds which ma may not ot be regarded as controversial now that we have had fifteen years ears of disillusioning experiment The law does not reflect public opinion For proof we have hae only to look at the record In everyone every everyone everyone one one of the three thirty states where the question question question ques ques- tion has been voted upon overwhelming majorities majorities majorities ma ma- have been recorded for repeal Compliance Compliance Com Corn with and respect for law so completely at variance with preponderant majority opinion surely may JUay not be expected by bj an any r reasoning individual Prohibition has proved itself to be the arch enemy of temp temperance ra nce Sentimentality unconvinced by fact or blind to fact or seeking seeking seeking seek seek- ing no fact may argue to the contrary contral r but fact nevertheless written in every police record record record rec rec- ord of the country reveals the adventure of America in this field of legislation as the most 1 tragic failure in its history |