Show A BLESSING IN DISGUISE GOVERNOR SMITHS SMITH'S approval of the repeal of the Mullan Oage prohibition prohibition prohibition enforcement law in New York is not the calamity many may think It to be To our minds will prove to be a blessing In disguise Since I the passage of the amendment altogether too many friends pro prohibition pro 1 pro pro-I have been wont to think the victory won and the war on rum f ended This act of Governor Smith will serve to shock these people Into a realization of the he fact that the thereal J real fight has only begun When the friends pf prohibition in the country I put on their armor and go forth to battle there there can be no room for I doubt as to what will be the issue Governor Smiths Smith's act in approving the repeal is going to rekindle again I Ithe the fires of enthusiasm and consecration consecration consecration tion that placed the amendment in the constitution It it is a notorious s fact that the enforcement of the prohibition laws has been lax Its enforcement has be been n ah attended d d' d with unlimited cor corruption ear ear- of enforcement officials The strictures of Governor Smith on this phase of the Question cannot do otherwise otherwise otherwise oth oth- than Jhan sting sling Into the renew renewed d determination the national authorities authorities authorities ties responsible for enforcement of the law taw Instead of the NewYork repeal sounding the knell of prohibition prohibition it will prove rove simply the of war calling to arms sits ts friends The Che American people are too patriotic patrio patrio- tic and too Intelligent having set Jet their face race for tor so a condition condition con cou- of things as that produced by prohibition ever over to turn back to the wastefulness pauperism and crime that flow from the intoxicating cup |