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...Eight State referenda with liquor the issue have been held since all the states except Connecticut and Rhode Island ratified the 18th Amendment. These resulted as follows...
...year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
...justification of elections, referenda, and majority rule is not the wisdom of the multitude, much less its omniscience, but the pressing necessity of devising some crude makeshift whereby decisions can be reached which the people will accept...
Democracy-government by the people-nowhere exists. The nearest approach to it is in Switzerland, where referenda can be taken on the initiative of the people; but, even in other so-called democracies, representative government, with all its flaws, is the most perfectly practical form of government known; and its success is undoubtedly determined in ratio to the political consciousness of the people. When, however, representative government is introduced into backward countries whose populace is for the most part ignorant and whose leaders are often corrupt, it becomes nothing short of a farce. At Bagdad, capital of Iraq, officials decided...
...importance of these two questions; and they have both been so constantly before the American people that even the most inveterate reader of the society columns could scarcely have avoided giving them some thought in the past. Therefore the sense of the body politic as taken in these unofficial referenda should have some weight both upon its own dissenting members and upon Congress...