Evening star., 1932-12-04
REPEAL RESISTED
BY ALLIED FORCES
"We Have Just Begun to
Fight" Says Statement
From DR.. Polling.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCldleu fIeSS.
NEW YORK, December 3.-Under
the heading I'VE have just begun to
fight" the allied forces tonight issued
a statement saying, 1--WE believe that
the eighteenth amendment, or the cause
for which it stands, can be saved and
advanced without a subversive policy
Enthusiastically the recent elections
bring to the cause of national prohibi-
tion new OCCASION" said the state
ment released by DR.. Daniel A. Polling.
I'VE would be blind. and inexcusably
blind, were We not to recognize facts,
facts however startling, however dis
heartening, as of the present moment
THE national administration aside,
dry stalwarts of a generation have
been defeated and nine States have.
by overwhelming popular vote. repealed
their enforcement laws, while two
others voted to petition Congress for
repeal Of the eighteenth amendment.
mo Bugle Of Retreat"
But recognition of these facts has
for us no bugle Of retreat. There are
other facts, and these other facts will
more and more emerge as time passes
and our opponents begin to administer
their real or fancied triumph"
Although the statement said it was
not the time to indicate the details of
what the organization believed should
be the dry strategy. it ''restated" GER
tain PRINCIPLES as follows:
First. We are against repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and we shall
fight accordingly.
Second. We are against any meas
ure for legalizing' beer or for liberaliz-
ing the Volstead act that circumvents
the Constitution"
Also we shall have no part in any
program Of mere obstruction" the
allied forces stated. continuing with
this illustration:
If we could at least hold the eight
eenth amendment in the Constitution
by 13 States against 35. the victory
would be worse than hollow. Such
program would be repugnant to the
ideals and spirit of American democ-
racy. Notification, direct and COM
plete, if not revolution, would be the
result"
Drys Urged to Unite.
Drys were urged to unite in a fight
on any bill providing for legalization OF
beer or for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment in the short session OF
SUIlSItSS.
Pointing to opposition claims that
the recent election was a mandate
from the people to repeal the eight
zenith amendment, the statement said
that if that were SO then certainly
there is a mandate equally binding to
keep out the salocn and to protect dry
territory
Both party platforms carried these
specific pledges" it continued. mo solu-
ton calling for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment can be submitted or even
considered in good faith that does net
make provision, definite and adequate,
against return of the saloon and for
protection of dry territory. Every dry
and every dry organization should keep
this basic principle constantly before
the American people. Nor should we.
be deferred or disturbed by the charge
that will be shouted from the wet
housetops that such an honest fight is
a fllibuSter."
Asserting that there is a growing
awareness in the opposition camp of
difficulties ahead" the allied forces
added: INCREASINGLY it is apparent that
the brewers are Premature in washing
their kegs, in preparing their malt, and
in getting steam up under their b0ilcss-
increasingly it is apparent that repeal
is more than days journey ahead"