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...Baker also said: "I was not in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment, and I'd like to see it changed. My position was exactly the same as that of William Howard Taft, before he became Chief Justice...
...While it is true that Coolidge has made a farce of enforcement, yet Hoover definitely promises that he will not allow any tampering with the Eighteenth Amendment or the Volstead law."-John A. McSparran of Lancaster, Penna., withdrawing as a Democratic candidate for Congress...
...against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...Anyway, I'm against any revision of the thing via emotion. The Eighteenth Amendment was swept in by emotion. Governor Smith wants to get a change by emotion, inspired by his magnetic personality and popular appeal. I'd much rather trust the question to a mind like Hoover's, that will get the facts...
...believe, everything considered, that I should retain the Eighteenth Amendment (because I could not do otherwise) and that I should resolve to apply it. I should continue the suppression of the saloon and of all public sale of alcohol. I have never seen the American saloon, but judging from what I have heard of it, it was a dangerous institution. On the other hand, I should try to induce Congress to amend the Volstead act so as to permit the private consumption of wine and beer in the states which desire it. But I should place a heavy tax upon...