Show i let your our conscience ve ile your guide guido ANE 0 NE ot of the youthful contestant in the ont olit orICAl v debate on the constitution stood solidly for f states tates li rights ri h tl on the question of law lair enforcement of course this I 1 is naturally construed as cleaning meaning pro bibi tion though he did not specify and it dors does not nece marly mean that we have plenty of other mat of law enforcement that arc are in III somewhat of a contest between federal and fita stat k au authority thorit which common opinion is beginning to crystallize cryst alize in favor of federal authority anything of that sort whose handling in one state unfavorably affects other states we are beginning to believe is a federal mat ter this oung man said we were too eager to cure evils of common existence by federal legislation he ile held to the doctrine that no law JAW could be enforced without he the disere of the people to have it done L u A therefore state authority was to be preferred tie did not go to the legitimate arg de ad surd sur duro u ra and say that it should go from the state to the county from IMM the cou county ity to the cit froni from the city to the ward and from the ward to he the individual resulting in datry man adow as its he dern pleased almost simultaneously at the police conference in sacramento it was proposed that state officials take over work now done doge by local officials that is heading in the opposite direction it is only a step in the direction of final federal control of crime and agencies that promote crime we have some theories of state mid and federal authority author y that are supposed to hae bae ba e political party lines between them yet in actual experience one party has violated those theories about as much as another As a practical people re gar gard diess less of party when we ive want something done we loob look or the best instrument foi for the doing of it so united in common interests and so closely con necked physically and sentimentally haie ha e we be come thai that we are resorting to the federal inetha ment more and more as ai the year years go by became because of af the iacre stress of condition conditions contests conte tr to the contrary |