Word: prohibitionists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prohibitionist you now say that any effort to impede the success of the federal amendment will drive the country to bolshevism. If you are on the other side of that question your point is that the failure to give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved...
...rampant last fall ought to be non-existent now, when instead of the magnified aims of a particular faction being in the balance, the cherished honor and rights of the whole nation are at stake. Political affiliations and party differences should be forgotten, and every Democrat, Republican, Socialist and Prohibitionist should regard themselves as members of one organization, the American Party, whose single aim is the honorable performance of this country's grave responsibilities...
Addresses will be made by the following: E. T. Dana, Socialist; H. N. Stearns '99, Republican; R. S. Hoar '09, Democrat; Professor A. B. Hart '80, Progressive; and D. A. MacKay, Prohibitionist...