Purley A. Baker - We should go just as fast and as far as public se

We should go just as fast and as far as public sentiment would justify.

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Purley A. Baker, *, General Superentendant, Anti-Saloon League, Statement to his Headquarters Committee regarding prohibition and an attempt to enact a Constitutional amendment, 1913

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