Show DOGMATISM 1 VS P PATRIOTISM 1 Some concern is felt because neither of the dominant political political cal eal parties has taken a stand on the Prohibition question But for several reasons we see no cause for alarm Platforms have not been drawn or adopted Until the national conventions are held there can be no no official pronouncement from party Lions To suppose that any party can consistently take a stand other oth oth- er than Uan enforcement of existing laws is unthinkable It has been I long taken for granted that government should and must enforce and administer its own enactment Otherwise there would bet be beno beno I I Ito no government If i it t has come to a 3 question merely of whether to enforce and ana administer existing law then the country is in asad a asad I Isad sad plight This does not mean that a party shall be denied the right to exercise its freedom with respect to endorsing modification of the act or the repeal of the Eighteenth Eighteenth- Amendment That right is is fundamental Any man woman or political party I may consistently and legally raise fi finances ances carry carryon on propaganda I thru n nevery press platform platform- radio or soap box to abolish thru the ballot statutes concerning the traffic in every vestige of prohibitory I intoxicating While we would be far from predicting yet the RIGHT TO ADOPT THEM THEl any such sweeping measures REMAINS REl INVIOLATE AND ABSOLUTE just as the thc right of those who advocate Prohibition to campaign has remained sanctioned sanctioned sanctioned sanc sanc- and unquestioned No political group should make hasty decisions To be bc dogmatic dog dog- matic to to make assertions of policies before final judgments are formed and the will of the majority ascertained is is as deter- deter mental to success as silence in in the face of established truth In government as in other systems and philosophies nothing is is absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute except principles No political party is going to take snap judgment against an established institution like Prohibition Prohibition tion Lion without first consulting the masses In the thc end the parties are the people Dogmatism is not patriotism Each party has its The party that is wise will ill not only refrain from a platform platform platform plat plat- form of radical change but will go so far as the judgment of the tho people warrants The best any party can say is that Prohibition with must be enforced unless and until is is with us and being us repealed Two possible things can happen to Prohibition as it now exists is is that by strict enforcement will it-will it will do away with intemperance intemperance inThe in in- temperance and drunkenness The other is that it will wiIl enforce itself into a sweeping repeal and hence out of existence Thus a genuine wet and a genuine dry will both advocate the same issue ENFORCEMENT while the thc rest of the world watches for the result I |