| Show I LET KT US HE SOX TOGETHER Hero Here is n a page five letter from th the Reverend He J. J Challen Smith pastor o otho ot of the tho First Congregational church ii at Provo Prove insisting on prohibition as a n solution of or tho the drink evil Wo Vo do no not de desire to be discourteous to Mr l Smith but hut we find nothing new in his argument ment mont And the tho old has hns not riot seemed con conJ convincing J nel n The Republican and the tile goo good dominie dom dom- mb inie are arc at one In the desire for tor the greatest good to man He thinks a Prohibition law Jaw which will not be bo obeyed and which cannot be enforced is tho the nearest t society can get to conquering conquering conquering con con- the Demon pernon emon Rum The Republican Re Re- publican I Just at this Juncture It is interesting interest interest- interesting ing inS to note that Maine which has been prohibition with brief brier exception for fifty years cars finds linde itself unable to enforce the law Jaw and so enacts another another an an- other othel law Jaw to make malic the first la law ef cC- cC eC 1 fecU e Of the strange situation the Washington Post says s 's fter After years eats of effort Which had luul re resulted re- re In the spread and prosperity pros pros- of or blind tigers dives and speakeasies speak speak- ea des the legislature apparently hopeless hopeless hopeless hope hope- less of enforcing the law through the tho regularly elected officers of at the state In cities towns and counties created create the anomaly of an enforcement com corn mission This remarkable bod body of Inquisitors Is given tho the power to see seo that the law Is 19 obeyed 1 In places where the thc popular sentiment Is against tho the enforcement of or prohibition or where tha sheriffs and policemen are lax in tho the execution of oC their duties Naturally this double device of or making a state virtuous against Its Ita will has been a farce For tho six months past It has haft cost tho state al almost almost almost al- al most to attempt to enforce the law lav In districts where whore public opinion lId did not want It enforced and the tho successful suc sue prosecutions brought In only in fines and this all from one ono county Of course the tho next logical step will vill be the establishment of ot an another another an- an other oilier commission to force torce the tho present enforcement commission to make ke the sheriffs and police execute tho the laws the they were elected ejected to uphold It Is all allery cr very ery simple when you OU have havo time to tofi fi figure it out out- And the tho New York Commercial mak makes s the following comment What a consummate farce Is a n law that requires the enactment of a supplementary sup sup- law to make a bluff at the tho enforcement n of oi the original act 0 O prohibition What hot absurdities and anti andI hollow mockeries are arc committed In th thy t name I Y You u. u sec see after the people hoc have enacted enacted en en- acted acted- a a- prohibitory tory law they leave t tto tto tto to H telf el Some energetic persons of or miraculous constancy constanc remain remain remain re re- re- re main t to their crusade an and work In tn season se-ason and out of or season for obedience obe obe- to tho the law But Dut the great portion portion por por- tion of tho the people relax their lance Officers find themselves standing stand- stand ins InS' alone or weakly and inadequately supported They encounter first In Indifference In- In difference Inertia and then passive anti and then active opposition FROM FRO I TIlE THE VERY ERY PEOPLE WHO HELPED I I MAKE THE LAW Vo Wo still cling to the belief elief that regul regulation t an and high license e 1 is the thc bettar better better bet bet- I ter tar solution until solution-until until such Buch tim time as tho the national government males makes a n prohibition prohibition law general over tho the United States S tut os And pending that cv c event nt nt lot lel us try and md convince con that whiskey makes malee aman a 0 aman man cheap that thal intemperance Is sui- sui ciao chic that conviviality in is robbery of the wife and theft front from the tho children that the tho sober salter mon man Is tho the read ready ma man that thai tho clear brained is the Iho successful ful man So that good reason reason rea rca son for temperance being boing presented the tho citizen will 1111 follow Collow the dictator dictates of Judgment and avoid avold intemperance Leave LIm him free but instruct him hint If Ie you cant can't o save him hini that way you ou C cant can't l save savo him at all |
