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Show i? 11 MED 1 ; TO IE DECALOGUE i I Federal Commission Declares j Prohibition Amendment and I Laws Will Stand i I NEW YORK, Jan 19 The prohibition prohi-bition amendment was likened- to the iDecalouge today by John F. Kramer, federal prohibition enforcement com-imissioner, com-imissioner, in an address at the annual meeting of New York clergymen under I tho auspices of the anti-saloon league, j "Tho passions, the appetites and the desires of men," he said, "made it nec-I nec-I cssnry for the promulgation of the 1 ten commandments, now embodied in Holy. Notwithstanding the fact that the commandments and our criminal 1 laws interfere with men's passions, ap- petites and desires, yet they still stand i and arc obeyed by the great mass of j American people. So I am sure it will be under the federal prohibition amendment and the laws enacted thereunder. "Why should this law be considered differently than any other law? Some say it interferes with tho personal liberty lib-erty of men and hence should not br enforced or obeyed. If it Avore no' for men's appetites we would ne-. no law with a penalty attached to it I Mr. Kramer gave warning that pop Jular support would be necessary foi effective enforcement of prohibition, saying : "The people of our country are apt to start things and then fall to keep up sufficient interest in them to see that they are carried to a successful conclusion. "I believe the people will accept this responsibility and perform the duty which plainly rests upon them." William H. Anderson, stale superintendent superin-tendent of the anti-saloon league of New York, said thnt the only hope or the liquor interests lay in the possibility possibil-ity of repealing or changing the enforcement en-forcement act and intimated that tho league would concentrate its fight to retain this law. |