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Accepting certification from Acting Secretary of State Phillips that thirty-six STates had ratified the repealing amendment, he improved the occasion to address a plea to the American people to employ their regained liberty first of all for national manliness. Roosevelt asked personally for what he and his party had declined to make the subject of Federal mandate - that saloons be barred from the country. I ask especially, he said, that no State shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. Makes Personal Plea He enjoined all citizens to cooperate with the government in its endeavor to restore a greater respect for law and oder, especially by confining their purchases of liquor to duly licensed agencies. This practice, which he personally requested every individual and every family in the nation to follow, would result, he said, in a better product for consumption, in addition to the break-up and eventual destruction of the notoriously evil illicit liquor traffic and in tax benefits to the government. The President thus announced the policy of his administration - to see that the social and political evils of the preprohibition era shall not be revived or permitted again to exist. Failure of citizens to use their new freedom in helping to advance this policy, he said, would be a living reproach to us all. He expressed faith, too, in the good sense of the American people in preventing excessive personal use of relegalized liquor. The objective we seek through a national policy, he said, is the education of every citizen toward a greater temperance throughout the nation. As a means of enforcing his policy, the President has the Federal Alcohol Control Administration ready to take control of the liquor traffic and regulate it at the source of supply.
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