Show l I S Getti Getting g 1 J ENGLISH writers and an statesmen g generally le I ILI are rare not pleased with the recent seizure v. v f the liquor a oard a ship carrying the Brit- Brit fish sh co coors colors ors We could hardly expect them to toe toffie e pleased Th The loss loss' of th the liquor or alone atone is not t calculated to to promote good will but the f ls involves something more than than-S. that S The fhe breaking of I the British s seals fu Unish an opportunity for the more serious minded editors to see a a. a possibility f grave international iti nal complications fj J t r We do not ti any h Y such difficulties I ties ti notwithstanding the fact that c. we v ca can t 1 I t r th the American position We V haVe have he S S S J tJ J 4 rr t Jj J THE SAL SAI broken official seals to reach liquor we do donot donot donot not want The file only reason we have for taking taking tak tak- tak- tak ing log the liquor or Is the fact that we do not want it In a word we do not accept the British seats their face value and decline to honor them fearing that the liquor will be smuggled to a select American trade The action is not calculated to aid the prohibition movement because it merely adds to the weight of the protest against the existing existing exist exist- ing order It invites the rest test of the world which is not vitally concerned with prohibition tion lion in America to participate in the ment merit Nor can can the tile seizure actually aid the i suppression of liquor in the United States It ft may promote the tile prohibition of go liquor but our chief menace however is to tobe tobe tobe be found in fn home production and so it would I seem that better results would be attained if we concerned ourselves with the suppression of the illicit traffic at home which reaps the benefits of attention devoted to foreign ship ship- I ping S We have invited a test case the results of which are problematical If we wein e in mn we gain nothing because the tile v victory would tend to discourage intercourse with America We might not suffer material financial losses but certain it is that ships which could find other markets would not sail to a point where their official authority was violated The effect of or orthis this would not be in the interest interest interest inter inter- est of American growth groth and expansion And if jf the test case should go gOI against us foreign ships might not be s sQ so much concerned with official sanction for the liquor carried This would rould place us in 11 the position of accomplishing accomplish accomplish- ing irig the ends we J seek to to toa 1 a avoid void |