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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1933. 1721 WHEREAS it appears from a certificate issued December 5, 1933, by the Acting Secretary of State that official notices have been received in the Department of State that on the fifth day of December 1933 conventions in 36 States of the United States, constituting three fourths of the whole number of the States had ratified the said repeal amendment; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- pr~'::!'3~e.!alJa~ dent of the United States of America, pursuant to the provisions of section 217 (a) of the said act of June 16, 1933, do hereby proclaim that the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed on the fifth day of December 1933. F~URTHERMORE I .. 11 .. fhU'dS C'ooperation for .' enJ.olI?- upon.a . cI~ Iz ~n .s 0 t e mte tates greater respect for law and upon others resIdent Within the JunsdictIon thereof to cooperate and order enjoined. with the Government in its endeavor to restore greater respect for law and order, by confining such purchases of alcoholic beverages as they may make solely to those dealers or agencies which have been duly licensed by State or Federal license. Observance of this request, which I make personally to every individual and .~very family in our Nation, will result in the consump- tion of alcoholic beverages which have passed ederal inspection, III the break-up and eventual destnlction of the notoriously evil illicit liquor traffic, and in the p~yment of reasonable taxes for the support of Government and thereby in the superseding of other forms of taxation. I call specific attention to the authority given by the twenty-first amendment to the Government to prohibit transportation or importa- tion of intoxicating liquors into any State in violation of the laws of such State. I ask the whole-hearted cooperation of all our citizens to the end that this return of individual freedom shnll not be accompanied by the repugnant conditions that obtained prior to the adoption of the eighteenth amendment and those thnt have existed since its ad.option. ~'ailure to do this honestly and courageously will be a living reproach to liS all. I ask especially that no State shall by law or otherwise authorize the return of the saloon either in its 01<1 form or in some modern guise. The policy of the Government will be to see to it that the social and lJOlitical evils that have existed in the pre-prohibition era shall not be revived nor pennitted again to exist. We must remove forever from our midst the menace of the bootlegger and such others ad would profit at the expense of good government, law, and order. I trust in the good sense of the American people that they ~ill not bring upon themselves the curse of excessive use of intoxicating liquors, to the detriment of health, morals, and social integrity. The objective we seek through a national policy is the education of every citizen towards a greater temperance throughout the Nation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. ~'RANKLIN D HOOSEVELT By the President: WILLIAM PHILLIPS Acting Secretary oj State. [No. 2065]