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Show Riebfeld and Prohibition. Krom the Beap.er. The cry goes up that prohibition has been a failure in Riohfield. To any one who. has waiched this matt r closely the fact iH apparent that there has been no attempt at prohibition in Richfield. True, an ordinance was passed against the selling of liquor here, but there has been no attempt at enforcement,. The council passed an ordinance at d then n.uietly awaited await-ed the ordinance to enforce itself. The Mar-ibal has been powerless as be haB had no fund at his command to engage assistance so uecessary in ihe enforcement of so radical a change as the prohibition ordinance called for. Prohibition iu Richlield has not be.en a failure, because it has not been tried. The saloonkeepers have become arrogant, and defiant, because every cage brought against them has been a victory for them by inefficient prosecution . We have waited patiently for a fair test of the ordinance. There has. has been none. Lawyers for the op position declare that even though a conviction is secured in the lower courts the ordinance is so palpably defective that the higher courts will reverse the lower courts. The council did not anticipate a defective ordinance, ordi-nance, and. as a matter of fact, when the ordinances were being revised, and the prohibition ordinance, was being drawn, the mayor a.nd city attorney at-torney wsre authorized to eecure competent assistance for the work This assistance was never secured Whether the ordinauce is effectively drawn or not, it is a fact that it will not enforce itself. One reason advanced for the laxity in prosecutions is that the people are not iu favor of s.uch prosecutions. Whether this is true or not the ordinance ordi-nance is on the books and until it is repealed it should be enforced. |