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The initiative and referendum is good enough for the Prohibition Party when applied to "all matters of legislation not distinctively moral;" but when morals are involved, "the law of God" only is binding, and the initiative and referendum is repudiated. Their = interpretation = of the demands of "the law of God" -- not actually the law itself -- would become the supreme law of the land, and all the power of the government, in their hands, would be set to enforcing it. Need it be said that this would be repeating the history of the Dark Ages and Medieval times in the most accurate detail!
Mr. Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for president, in 1912, said: