Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — Ex-President Taft Opposes National Prohibition. [ARTICLE]

Ex-President Taft Opposes National Prohibition.

Boston, Dec. 28.—“ National prohibition is a dangerous proposition,” said former President William H. Taft, speaking before the Bar Association of Boston at its triennial banquet tonight. “It would revolutionize the national government and would put on the shoulders of the government the duty of sweeping the doorsteps of every home in the land: “National prohibition is npn-en-forcible; it is a confession on tfhe part of state governments of inabil-’ ity to control and regulate their own especial businesmjpd dfttpl#* if the matter were placed under federal control It would result *n creation of a machinery of government officials large enough to nominate any president”