Show a PROHIBITION Among the men who have made a careful study of economic conditions in the United States and who have brought to that Investigation a mind trained by years of study and practical practical application Is former President Eliot of or Harvard Professor Eliot de devoted devoted devoted voted a great deal of Ume time to the study tudy of ot statewide prohibition endeavoring I Ito to satisfy himself whether statewide prohibition was all that the pro proponents proponents proponents of or the plan claimed for tor it Here Is his opinion based upon care careful careful ful research re eroh and from study of or Its workings In several states I The efforts to enforce e toree it during for tor forty forty ty years ears past have had bad some un effects on public re respect respect respect for tor courts judicial pro procedure procedure proc c dure oaths oath and law ta legisla legislature legislature ture turo and public publio servants The public has seen law defied a whole generation of or habitual lawbreakers schooled in evasion and shamelessness courts met ine ineffective through fluctuations of or policy delays perjuries genres and other miscarriages of ot justice officers of ot the law dou double ble and mercenary legis legislators legislators haters timid and insincere It Is rather strong language that Professor or Eliot uses to give hi his views of the effort to enforce statewide pro prohibitory laws Jaws As s an an educator as a aman aman aman man who must be practical and as a student whose science e must be applied ortIs lc worthless Professor Profesor Eliot goes I deeper than the surface and does dOM not endorse something that in theory theol brings about an ideal condition yet actually brings things to a worse nas pass paN than they were before The honesty of ot Professor Eliot Kliot no noone noone noone one can Impugn He Is a man of or honor and integrity sufficiently blue blooded to desire companionship with only the best beat He Ho cannot be accused d dat of at having improper motives mothe It le Is J a monument to his courage that he would express J sentiments which will bring down don upon his head the criticism dim cism of the idealists But nut few tew will wm I venture to dispute the conclusions Professor Eliot advances adva cea on 0 any aRt sub subject joeL jeet He does not give his opinion un until until til tU he has a basis baa Is of or tact fact with which to support it When hen he speaks It K te Jc IshI his hI final word |