The richest lobby in the world fought this amendment at every step.
Almost every agency of public opinion was against it. It was opposed by the greater part of the newspapers, by the Labour organizations, by the leaders of society, by the intellectuals, by the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches as a rule, and by the enormous momentum 6f tradition and habit.
Nobody was left except -the plain Main Street folks, and there were so many of them, and they were so solidified in conviction, that they swept the amendment through by a decisive vote, and every body of legislators that has been elected since has been even more strongly in favour of Americans never pass an amendment to the Constitution unless they mean it thoroughly. And none has ever been repealed There isn't a chance in the world of Prohibition being _repealed: at least not until Wo-Emancipation are repealed. You man's and Negro will see the Saloon come back' about the time you see the
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