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Show THE 4 C getting us anywhere and unless vc are mighty careful Utah will become a i side trip instead of being maintained on the main highway of the country. IT I ZEN Y 4. PROHIBITION. feri It is unnatural to suppose that this count rvJ der the present stigma of. our prohibition CRIME. Careless business methods, various sure thing proposi0 tions and burglary cost the people of the United States in 1924. This amount at first thought appears inconceivable, but the crook is wide awake at all times and there appear to be suckers enough in the country that can be easily separated from their hard earned money Among some of the channels of fraud through which large sums of money are extracted from the unsuspected victims and burglary accounts are embezzlement, $120,000,000; credit frauds, $400,000,000; burglary, larceny and petty thefts, $250,000,000; forgery, including worthless and bogus checks, $100,000,000 ; seaport robberies, piracies, and customs frauds, $100,000,000; railroad thefts, $25,000,000; stock frauds, $1,700,000,000; insurance frauds, $1,000,000,000; arson, $50,000,000; miscellaneous, $75,000,000. And this does not contain many small items of fraud committed in different parts of the country. The criminal trust is a big ring that even controls legislation. James E. Baum, manager of the protective department of the American Bankers association, believes that the peak in prices paid to the criminal has been reached but that opinion is an unknown quantity and it may be just the beginning of a crime wave which has been unequalled in the history of the world. There is no reason to expect a lessening of crime under our present apathy to criminals and the application of much laxity in our courts toward all criminals. The life of ease and entertainments provided in penitentiaries is an inviting punishment to many during the winter months. The past year has been a record breaker in crime and yet we were told that with prohibition, crime would be reduced to a min$3,820,-000,00- imum. AMBITIOUS GREED. Trade combinations in their zealous efforts to better local conditions frequently forget their outside market and as a result they do things that were better left undone. milk and butter Great efforts have been made by the trusts to kill everything foreign to the cow. In our legislature representatives of these trusts have tried in every way to prohibit butter substitutes. Many western states have legislation along such lines. Notwithstanding that spring is here and the catgrass is beginning to grow, which admits of turning out the tle, the price of butter is being boosted and the price of milk needs investigation. The producer of food is never satisfied with the price he gets, no matter how high the price or how little the cost of production. In fact, prices are seldom based upon production these days. It is rather based upon organization of the producers and discriminatory laws passed by legislatures. Speculation and gambling in food prices should be entirely prohibited in this country. The life of the people should never allowed to be jeopardized by unscrupulous organizations who have no thought of the disastrous results which follow in the wake of their greedy and self gain. The southern states are taking exception of some of our proposed legislation, and unless more fairness is shown, they propose to boycott our western beet sugar in retaliation for our short sightedness in trying to hog the market in certain lines of food products. Such a condition should not be tolerated and yet, if we injure the business of the south, there is no good reason why they should not come back at us. We should have strict laws prohibiting, under heavy penalties and fines, the manipulation of food prices. farcer where. Bert M. McConnell voices general s.mtiJ: cle appearing in the Dearborn Independent when congressional investigation of Washington in geneiv Washington in particular is one of the possibiMf came known that several members of Congress e: vote dry brought into this country, in violafr which they helped to enact, a considerable quaC6f They were able to do this without detection place, they were returning from a junket top 4 the second place, being congressmen, they were freedom of the port in question Now, a steady diet of congressional investigj monotonous. And it may be that the wets in making matters appear in the worst possible light, t a more liberal revision of the Volstead Act. AV wetness of many dry congressmen is notorio.?. fact that congressmen are pledged to obey the 1H the Constitution. If prohibition is good enough Lm nee man( thinks the average man) it ought to bego those who voted to make it the law, and who annual, millions of the taxpayers money to enforce the I8 ' body but themselves. Those familiar with Washington life have hr time that nowhere else in the United States is t law being flounted more brazenly than in the The very capitol has become a house of a thoussj If any city in the country should be a model for of prohibtion, that city is Washington. In theD umbia, federal and local governments are virk-The President and his cabinet; the nations lamu hibition Commissioner and his enforcement f there. Yet Washington is generally regarded ijj city in the country outside New York. With ther eo problem of a generation confronting the country, sixth year of prohibition with the examples ofi gressmen before us ; a flagrant disregard of tends to bring other laws into contempt. The impartial enforcement of all law is beeoiL problem of the first magnitude. The public confusion of mind on the subject is great enough, without having it made moretgQj ;wa gressmen who violate the Volstead act. Millions of individuals, for instance, undtf that prohibition is a mere law of Congress, tn repealed. This brilliant suggestion has been dinned by candidates for senatorships who would maketlrt state as wet as the Atlantic ocean and by goff with federal enforcement offr fuse to These uninformed people do not undrrstai gross should repeal the Volstead Act, it voifiy J bound to enact another law enforcing proh'bitWxin understand why, if congressmen break tin h cai pities helped enact, the man in the street shov'dbitioJ A man who will help to pass a proli taj hand and drink with the other, is beyond tl man. Just as a chain is no stronger than its Jeon are prohibition enforcement units no stroiger dual human links that go to make up the .wind or ftt o jority of these have been recommended j congressmen. a wii J Are congressmen who themselves law going to choose agents who will enforce liat tictr A reversal of public opinion in favn forcement has in the last few months mai ifeJ at cule of the liquor laws has disappeared fOffl w ' lai fi y ob I co-oper- ate 0-- ? i |