To still the Wet cry of "sumptuary legislation," a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald:
"We specifically repudiate all enforcement policies that do not regard and safeguard every personal right. . . . Personal habits and the conduct of the home are in the field of private morals. These should not be touched by the hand of the...
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