Show DOES IT PAY newspapers generally pretend to reflect the views of 0 the public at least of that hat part ol of the public which chiefly support them the press Is usually classed with the pulpit and the school for support of 0 all movements for community uplift it a new project for town betterment is to be launched the local paper and the commercial club are usually looked to for leadership crime is rampant in aur land only because profit is made by crooks who teed feed upon the very vitals of 0 society the peace officers upon whose shoulders chiefly rests the peculiarly difficult and too often thankless burden of protecting the public against these parasites generally look for support from the home paper lately however two papers of 0 the county differing more noticeably in their titles than otherwise seem from a recent article to have entirely forgotten their responsibility to lead public opo iu in favor of supporting the peace officers in their attempts to eliminate law breaking while we do not favor disregard of the law by any one whether jt be by government agents or bootleggers leg gers still we hold that when bootleggers so far flout the laws of the land as to be known far and wide tor for their brand of illicit drink arink and openly boast that it if they do not make the stuff that robs adults as well as boys and girls of 0 their brain and good character others will make it effective means should be taken to end the business the officers of this county and elsewhere have labored long and hard to root out this notorious bootlegging but through lack ot of public support have heretofore tailed failed to secure sufficient convictions and penalties to discourage the moonshine makers now when to make a cleanup of 0 the traffic it seems imperative to import government employees and convictions are secured these newspapers report the trials in such a way as to encourage an already indifferent public opinion still further to fail in support of eliminating the bootlegging menace why quote the words ot of a lawyer paid to free criminals at any cost it if these agents were with girls and offered them whiskey what good does it do to mention the matter in such a way as to arouse public sentiment against law enforcement moonshine whiskey it if drunk by other young people is just as likely to cause regrettable accidents as when drunk by government agents if hootch making is stopped there will be none available tor for boys and girls to get drunk on and there will be less running ot of automobiles over cliffs A subscriber |