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...idea that Massachusetts can by a referendum withdraw from the dry union of the United States is preposterous, for it can no more secede from its duties under the constitution, than could the southern states in 1661," declared Representative W. D. Upshaw of Georgia in an interview given to a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Upshaw, who for many years has been an ardent supporter of prohibition in the United States, a short time ago came into prominence by his revelations concerning the manner in which public officials in Washington violated the Eighteenth Amendment...