Show NOT PLEASED WITH PROHIBITION PROHIBITION PROHIBITION TION Oklahoma has tried prohibition and andis andis is 18 not pleased with the results secured The people of El EI Reno have adopted a series of resolutions one of which is isas Isas Isas as follows That in place of the limited number of saloons formerly operated In Okla Oklahoma Oklahoma homa from which the public fund re received received received a large revenue there are now thousands of Illegal megal Joints and bootleg bootleggers bootleggers bootleggers gers on roofs In cellars back rooms stables and In all sorts of ot secreted places liquors are sold and consumed The state counties and towns have no revenue and must burden the citizens with higher taxes Thousands of men respecting every other law do donot donot donot not hesitate to violate the prohibition law being an Iniquitous Imposition upon their personal rights Without doubt they have pointed out I one of the objections to the practical workings of ot a prohibition law At the beginning there is a rather gen general general general eral acquiescence in the dictum that prohibition is desirable Few men and still fewer women care to say they are opposed to prohibition It seems to im imply Imply imply ply that they are in favor of drunken drunkenness ness and all the evils that comes from the traffic in ardent spirits So that elections usually demonstrate a majority declaration In favor of ot the drys Then Thea comes the real rell test of the com corn position And never yet has the public sustained in its attitude the vigorous and effective prosecution of ot offenders Never have nave they stood firmly and for the enforcement of ot the law That Is the weakness of the position And after it has been tried through a score of states through decade after decade it is fair fall to assume that the people peo pee people pie do not want prohibition if it means actual enforcement of the law What Oklahoma has learned at so 50 great groat cost is precisely what has been learned in Kansas in Maine In Iowa and in countless communities every everywhere everywhere everywhere where |