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1 Vote of the National Council of the National Economic League on Prohibition 1926

handle is hein.beal/votonpr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: VOTE THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC LEAGUE 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. PROHIBITION Membership of Council Number of ballots cast 4600 1904 THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT 1. Do you favor the repeal of the 18th (Prohibition) Constitutional Amendment? YES 841 44% NO 997 52% NOT VOTING 66 4% If the x8th Amendment is repealed, (a) Should Prohibition then be left to the States ? YES 685 36% NO 466 24% NOT VOTING 753 40% (b) Should the Federal Government then be given power by Constitutional Amendment to control the sale of all intoxicating liquors, (through Federal dispensaries or otherwise), except in such States as prohibit the liquor traffic by their own laws ? YES 795 42% NO 416 22% NOT VOTING 693 36% THE VOLSTEAD ACT If the Eighteenth Amendment is not repealed, 2. Should the Volstead Act I. (a) Be retained as it is? or (b) Should it be reinforced by more effective provisions ? or (c) Be modified so as to permit or allow greater alcoholic content in beverages? or (d) Should it be repealed ? Not voting YES 167 641 s4 427 569 30* 5% Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY 9% 22%

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