Show i- i Trifling With Enforce Enforce- Enforcement ent I rHE HE first reaction of dry forces was to toI toi I 1 a ridicule the proposal to increase the federa federal federal fed fed- era eral I prohibition fund from to Possibly this was because the amendment to the treasury's appropriation bill was advanced by Senator Bruce a wet who explained Much as I am opposed to prohibition prohibition rohi- rohi I would rather see it enforced ed ed than to to wit witness ess a continuance of the pre present eril disgraceful disgraceful dis dis- disgraceful dis- dis graceful conditions On more careful thought however it appears that the drys do not consider thi this immense sum quite as much a joke as was the final figure of appropriated for forI I i. i prohibition enforcement To try to Tight the American liquor traffic on that sum is like trying i f trying to evaporate the Pacific Senator Bruce's amendment setting aside for dry work lost out in the senate by dhe close vote of 38 to 35 days day's both One of these wets and drys are going to get together on one of the most sweeping programs of enforcement ever Enforcement is the common ground oh h which both botI opponents and ind nd proponents of prohibition should meet As long as prohibition tion lion is written into our basic law it ought to c be enforced with all alt the power of the fed federal ral 1 government Then if the people show conclusively cOIl cOIl- conclusively con con- that they do not want enforcement let there le e a change in the law To lo p permit law Jaw enforcement agencies through throughout ut the country to wax fat on the graft of prohibition and millionaires to be made from vide wide op open n traffic is the sure way to break own all all all' law and order orderS It should never be made a joke to propose rigid enforcement of im- im 3 ant laws |