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W. C. T. U. Raps*!Gov. Rooseveltlt;inRepeal Policy Is “Surrender!pto Lower Powers,” Says £Statement.eoVJWashington —«AP)— The na-tional Woman’s Chnstian Temper- jance Union said in a statement today that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt’s prohibition repeal pol- .icv ’‘constitutes a surrender to *1 the lower powers.” 41Saying the statement was made or “in opposition to the repeal; not in favor of any party or candidate.” the W. C■ T. -U. outlined1n\9views as follows;’ Once unon a time there was a man named Roosevelt in the White House who, as the result of experiences with the liquor traffic, said “ that the American people must de- ; P feat the liquor traffic or the liquor P traffic would defeat the American ' people. Later, during the World, *3 war the liquor traffic attempted a such defeat by threatening Presi- I dent Wilson with a blockade of sshis war plans if in any way the liquor traffic was curtailed. That j j final treacherous impudence caus- j .ed the American people to outlaw the liquor traffic by the 18thamendment.CI•'For a dozen years liquor hasacted the part of an outlaw, run- t) ning its business illicitly, refus- tl ing to obey, making threats and e spreading lies. All this has scar- S ed people of weaker moral consti- -s tutions; and a smaller Roosevelt has risen who offers to restore the liquor traffic to a respectable place in business, with its old opportunities to debauch in return for aanlicense, if only the liquor traffic : and its friends will quit kicking ui and place this second Roosevelt in e the White House. Hi• This spectacle of inferioritymakes America long for the big | s stick. Can anyone imagine the t greater Roosevelt surrendering | n to the importunities of political or- 3 ganizations fostered and support- i ed bv the liquor traffic? Their liquor traffic has always supported the politics of bad government; it was the corner stone of much ^ of the evil President Roosevelt ex- 'opposed and dethron-iped. * * *“Governor Roosevelt’s inten-bi.‘tions may be honest; but if so he is exposing absymal ignorance of 1 (‘ the liquor power and the liquor i* problem. His premise is wrong; J his policy constitutes a surrender *to the lower powers.* Ih
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 31, 1932
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