Alcohol Laws Quotes
“Wets” were opposed to Prohibition while “drys” were in favor. The Ohio legislature ratified the 18th amendment to the Constitution enacting Prohibition, but in a statewide referendum, the people voted against it. The Supreme Court ruled that regardless of the will of the populace, it is only the legislature that could ratify or not ratify a Constitutional amendment passed by Congress.
This is a very important quote for it shows the young, pragmatic, pluralistic, tolerant politician who ran for the Mayor of Istanbul. As he acquitted power he became an insular, ego maniac, intolerant, authoritarian, paranoid, and often irrational. But in his earlier years he was an outstanding leader and politician. In this quotation he instructed his campaign followers to not berate or physically assault those Muslims who drank alcohol in reseraunnts, but instead to salute them and bring them into the movement by being tolerant of all the various degrees of orthodoxy to islam. The the fundamentalist drinking alcohol is a serious sin, but doing so in a public place is a danger to the community norms and morality. He used to advocate a big tent.
