National Affairs: Wet Wisconsin

One more state—Wisconsin—withdrew last week from, the field of Prohibition enforcement, handed the drying-up job back to the U. S., joined New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, on theWet sidelines.

In an April blizzard Wisconsin held a referendum on the question of repealing its State Enforcement Act. The voters called for the repealer by a 142,000 majority. The Drys blamed the blizzard, saying that farmers had been kept from the polls. With its members singing "How Dry I Am!'' and "Sweet Adeline," the State Assembly repealed the enforcement act. The senate followed suit. Last week Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "in fulfillment of the...

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