PROHIBITION LAW
DEMAND FOR FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT
“SORDID BETRAYAL BY POLITICIANS <Ree. May 12, 8 p.m.) Now York, May 11. A message from Springfield says in an impassioned speed denouncing the Federal enforcement of prohibition, Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, addressing the Methodist convention, declared that the enforcement of the law was the greatest moral issue befor the American people. “Sordid betrayal of the eighteenth amendment by politicians is known from coast to ccast to be openly tolerated,” Governor Pinchot declared. “The alliance between bootleggers and politicians has corrupted our children, degraded the characters, destroyed the health and cost the lives of uncounted thousands, debauched our Government and shamed us before the world. Failure of enforcement is.sometimes claimed to mean that the eighteenth amendment has failed. It means, nothing of th© sort. We are infinitely better off now with all deductions made for the wretched enforcement than we were before.” General Pinchot blamed Mr. Mellon for the failure of Federal enforcement, and added: “Moral. indignation is not enough. Resolutions are not enough. This is a case for fearless, untiring, uncompromising action in a cause for which every church member in America is irrevocably pledged.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7
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194PROHIBITION LAW Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 7
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