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Show PROHIBITION REPEAL By L. A. Hollenbeck Repeal is in the air. It will be a fact after November 7.' Even the "drys" admit that prohibition has not been a success. The death rate from alcoholism in the United States has risen 300 per cent since the first year of prohibition. In the wage earning population in the past eight years, the alcoholic deaths have been six times more in the U. S. than in Canada. The cost of prohibition . enforcement from 1920 to 1931 has been $370 million dollars. Repeal would give the government lf2 billion dollars In taxes. Besides the states and the municipalities would get tax aid. Statistics as well as our personal observation shows that prohibition has caused a lawlessness law-lessness that never existed before, prohibition, - - even under the saloon; and we are not going back to the saloon. We have learned ( something. We believe in liquor control, and proper regulation. We want something that will have public sentiment behind it Public Pub-lic sentiment is against prohibition, prohibit-ion, j and you can't enforce anything any-thing without public sentiment. Every town and city in the land, has saloons and speakeasies running run-ning wide open. Selling 3.2 beer, and stronger drinks. But, Mr. Booth a former Utahn, now from California, says that the sales of 3.2 beer is producing temperance in California, and we have the same report from Carbon county. Some of our friends who will vote dry admit that prohibition is a failure. But temperance is not a failure, but prohibition is. Even the prohibitionists arc in favor of temperance. But, when they vote for prohibition they are not voting for temperance. They (Continued on Page Six) ' OTHERS VIEWS (Continued from page one) are voting for intemperance, just what we have got by prohibition. Then why vote for prohibition, a thing that is an admitted failure? Oh, you will make it worse, they say. Statistics don't say it will be worse, but better, even under the saloon. But, we are all against the saloon. Why say that we will make it worse. We have the success of regulation in Sweden, which from a drunken country has become a temperance country. Let me ask this, - - Do you be- lieve that the human mina nas become bankrupt? Do you believe that In admitting failure of prohibition, pro-hibition, that the human mind must always submit to a failure? ( That we must be saddled with an ' admitted failure forever? Regulation Reg-ulation has already succeeded in several counties already. We can improve on those remedies, pos-; pos-; slbly. But, we must never take 1 the rotten stand that the human mind is bankrupt and that we cannot control the liquor traffic. |