Show J 0 4 I Work Wor k at H Home orne IS I tc 0 S il the terms of a pact with Great Greal S Britain the United States will have theS the S right to search British ships suspected of car car- v liquor to be smuggled into this c country f within the twelve mile limit In return for this British ships will have the right toS to S r. r 1 ry liquor under seal into American terri terri tern r. r i waters The United States als also affirms f fIte principle of the three-mile three limit for ternS tern tern- S rIal waters r v All of this of course is intended for closer i. i enforcement of prohibition n in the United J States tates tates It remains for the future to determine deter- deter mine how effective it will b be In the dryS dry dryland S j land states liquor imports would seem to be behe dJ he e least concern of prohibition officials which i l lead to the assumption that the arcan arr arrangement ar- ar r can have little effect on the liquor i iv traffic a ff IC III in th these ese I localities oca lit les C v The chief menace of prohibition in the theland thery dry ry land land states state is pu public lic indifference and jf moonshine whisky Liquor I imports count hardly ardly h at all If imports were were were's s shut t off comy com com- y the inland country would b be practically as far from prohibition as It is now The tellar stills and the kitchen breweries would IS still work overtime vertime to supply a waiting trade These waiting patrons patron who ho connive with I t bootleggers and distillers in violating the law i make m ke prohibition difficult At th the present i time the man who buys illicit whisky is only a a lead to the man who sells it For the most most part they are men who will not squeal on one who has violated the law to fo sell them what they wanted to buy This is an un- un jf condition because it gives s the un- un l' l lr a rt 1 speaking acquaintance e with the ff It makes makes an unnatural alliance I a d destroys respect for the la law inasmuch asit as it induces respectable citizens ns to cover cover and nd protect protect those who violate the law I All of the international pacts pacts' pacts in the world vill not correct this condition Some active j ld d energetic work is to be done at homeD home i The he bootleggers' bootleggers patrons patrons' must be made to realize alize that their patronage is a serious reflection re re- re- re J on their citizenship or the buyers k and nd sellers of whisky must must- be pl placed ced i in the same me standing before the he law But But this iS j patronage is is so great that neither of these iA V remedies appears practical For the most p rt these patrons of an an illicit traffic th think k their rights fights have been stolen so that indiVidual indi- indi Vidual reform seems difficult If they were were S t to be treat treated the s same me as those who sell the tuff the jails wouldn't hold them Never- Never jh less it would seem that the burden of prohibition pro pro- rests on the American people and not on those who make better liquor in other 4 countries 9 Unless Unless some n more ore effective e meth- meth yd th the domestic problem is found may shut off imports completely only to toy toS y S discover t 5 4 that prohibition still le leaks s likE like M g a aS a'S S 'S seive selve S 'S S i |