Show HAS the press dispatches earlier in the week announcing that two prohibition agents agents regularly employed by the city had bad been driven from helper by the bootleggers and those who sympathized with them reveals a startling state of affairs the dispatches also stated that a great proportion ot of the population ot of that city Is foreign born and the inference is naturally drawn that many many of them have not yet pledged their allegiance all to this nation by seeking citizenship in it when a city in this land of the tree free will permit its officers to be turned from their sworn duty to uphold the law and driven from the community because of threats of the lawbreaker what are we coming to the traffic in intoxicating liquor is not more merely y a local matter it is a national law and bootleggers are defying not only the town and city peace officers but they are defying the united states government as well and it they caa in successfully intimidate the local officers a community at once admits to the rest of the nation that the lawless element is sovereign and the I 1 legally appointed guardians of the peace are mere figure heads does helper wish to be so regarded by her sister er cities of the state or will she assert her powers and not only uphold the peace officers but bilt drive out the boot logger and lawbreaker no matter what it may cost if bolshevism is permitted to get a foothold it in the government of our land then the lord help not only helper but all the rest of us as well |