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Show 'V THE CITIZEN We have had experience of this difficulty in our own state. Wc found state, county and city officials in league with the illicit deal- ers in intoxicants. Bootleggers and keepers of retail saloons were alcoholic bevergranted protection. Substitutes for the ages were devised and firms were established to manufacture the substitutes with alcohol obtained from the state. The city was used to convey liquor to the city hall and the bottles were stored in the treasurers department. Thus city employes were not without their liquor, for which they paid good round sums. In New York City a vast conspiracy in which prohibition officials were involved was disclosed. One night a noted gunman, Monk Eastman, who had reformed and had served his country in France with such valor that he was awarded decorations, was shot to death after a dispute in a secret saloon. For several weeks the slaying was a mystery; then a prohibition enforcement officer, who had been carousing in the saloon, confessed that he had committed the murder. We do not wish to give the impression that-w- e are condemning enforcement officers as a class, hut it is a fact that everywhere the rs officers of the law who have protected and shared with the have gone far toward nullifying the efforts of those who have tried honestly and painstakingly to enforce the laws. Those seeking amendments to make the Volstead law more effective should give their best study to this singular phase of the problem. If the law is to he more effective means must be found to prevent the from becoming lawbreakers. It goes without saying that if officials whose duty it is to enforce prohibition condone or encourage the violation of the laws prohibition will fail. Throughout the country elected and appointed officials have gone into partnership with bootleggers and saloonkeepers. In some instances sheriffs have sold liquor by the case at their own offices or have distributed bottles of whiskey to their political friends and political organizations whose backing they expected and thus invited. Another and perhaps the chief source of trouble in the enforceIt is proposed to so amend ment of the law has been the Volstead act that federal officials mav enter homes and seize private stocks of liquor, but would such a lay be effective? We must ask ourselves whether this would not add to the number of corrupt officials? Would it not arouse so much bad blood that the remedy would be worse than the disease? We do not wish to pronounce dogmatically for or against these views. We wish simply to suggest the questions which ought to be thoroughly considered before we depart so far from our traditions of freedom that we make the home a public stamping ground for police officials many of them corrupt. old-fashion- ed dog-wag- on boot-legge- law-enforce- rs home-brewin- g. WHY LLOYD GEORGE CHANGED HIS MIND v i. f;, - ; policy of his country was still the safest and he so shaped his atj., as to prevent, without obviously appearing to intend such aT the restoration of France to the position of tlie dominant poj Europe. This policy, he fancied, was quite in line with Great Bria. A purpose to revive her world trade and also in line with his plj SOI hold off the Bolshevik whirlwind from Constantinople and the9aW ish empire in Asia. ? Several French cabinets fell because they declined to selves squarely against the British policy. Briand was given an(j on the understanding that he would end the polite, hypocritical Curt between British .and French statesmen and would insist on thewr.i of the Versailles treaty. ling set' When it came to a showdown Lloyd George was compel J. stand by France. He saw that if he broke with France his cents' c would not have a friend left in Europe. Great Britain would beards letely isolated and would be forcecEto go it alone at a timelanci her empire was being rent by internal strife and threatened bva dh n ol .in Europe and Asia. 3s" i Moreover, the astute Welshman probably saw that his cir8 sion to France would not amount to much a few years hence, at i W program calls for German payments over a period of forty-tw- o Who knows, the premier must have asked himself, but that theentc gram will fail utterly at the very outset because of Germanys ke hl itv to comply with its terms? He thought the chances goodOVQ a new program would be necessitated almost immediately, the trend of events and before France could carry out its desip, M take control of the Rhine provinces. He assured himself that, frett ever might be the immediate developments, the program coul(Kin remain intact for forty-tw- o years or for even a small fraction oiCu11 Jy h erts Thus, by agreeing to what France asked, he could give tha. A pression that Great Britain was standing by its ally and he coukrtei many things in retlirn. The years would show, he argued. tkr a period. had conferred an empty favor. Even though Great Britain si find it necessary to support the agreement for a somewhat lidu( period than he anticipated, the ultimate results probably wou!etii the same. France would collect only a small part of the inderthe and eventually Great Britain could return to her historic policst I The premier is counting' on the disintegrating effect of tiinc. European organization has not been so weakly held together the days. Vital changes are apt to occur cveryah months. A program for today probably will be futile a year fronntio: The German statesmen understand the change in British pase but they cannot quite figure out what it was that forced Lloyd Ge to change his mind within a few hours. They are trying to rlch what were the final arguments or threats that France threw intrrei post-Napoleon- ic scale. i p Coi What it was that induced Lloyd George, after a show of resistance, to sanction the French policy with regard to the German indemnity, is an enigma to the Teutonic statesmen. They cherished the hope that the British prime minister would adhere to his own policy of concessions. The premiers policy has been one of expediency from the beginning. He has tried to place it on the foundation of enlightened Whatever was best for the empire, that would he self-intere- st. Now that Uncle Sam has doffed his silk shirt we can was wearing it next his skin. set m, With a two years supply of wool on hand the west cant dcif is woolly. Even if the dye industry gets a tariff it will dye. (1 approve. The trend of his statesmanship in the last two years has been away from France in an effort to rcstablish a European situation which would help to revive the commerce of Great Britain and Moreprotect the empire against attacks frbm within and yithout. over, there was the traditional policy of Great Britain to keep in mind. For centuries Great Britain had prospered on European division and it had been her policy to maintain what was called a balance of power on the continent. It was this policy which went far to decide Great Britain for war in 1914, inasmuch as Germany had then become the preponderant power iii Europe by reason of her population, wealth and military strength. Germany had taken the place of France as a menace to Great Britain. After the war Llovd George was led to believe that the historic jj After looking at the deficit of our two state universities we the meaning of dear teacher. krfi r . We have changed a lot in this country, but there is no place the home still. Friendships are better than enemy ships. j i Now that the armv has been reduced some of the new ( fM will have to go hack to private life even if they remain in the arc m |