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ENFORCEMENT EYEWASH. ♦_ RIVAL PARTIES' PLANKS. One of the .pillars of the N\Z. Alliance was lately instructing, with -the authority of one who has never visited America, the statements and opinions of an American visitor. Both the American Parties he siid. had put "a prohibition plank" in their platforms. A striking proof, he said, of the extent to which the sentiment in favour of prohibition dominates the country. If the facts were true, it would not be a testimony of the dominance of prohibition sentiment, bu.t only of the politicians' anxiety not to antagonise the solid prohibition minority. But it is not true. Both parties have included an "enforcement" plank, because neither cnnlr! "dim out .-•< ' "nenlv stand for breaking the law. The law "is the law, whether it is good or bad, until it is repealed or altered.' Our own iudges often enough have said that this or that provision in the law is bad, t»ut they would not think of ignoring it in their judgments. The inclusion jf "enforcement" planks has no significance as to the opinion of the parties h- the country on the liquor question, tt has this significance, however, that > "rlr hw 1' iv C-. fppMc. „ mot j n jublie feeling that the enforcement of t is not to be taken for granted. N'obody asks either of the parties if it + "" ,l '>f Hip law igninst theft, because that law has a :oiid opinion behind it. The Deinoiratic Pprty stands for enforcement, mt it has chosen a candidate who tands for the repeal of the Volstead let and the liberation of America from he tyranny of the bootlegger and his ireator, the prohibitionist. —3