OUTS'" DIFFICULTIES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2775, 17 October 1923, Page 5

OUTS'" DIFFICULTIES.

PROHIBITION IN U.S.A.

ANTAGONISM OF WEALTH BY CLASSES.

UNEQUAL RESPECT FOR LAW.

[By Electric Cable—Copyright]

[Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Tuesday, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 15.

Senator Borah, in addressing the Prohibition Conference, declared that the wealthy, propertied classes had 'rendered prohibition unenforceable, because while they respected the con; stitutional amendment safeguarding oroperty, they . nevertheless ignored, prohibition thus fostering the bootleggers' traffic. Senator Borah, in attacking this unequal respect of the laws, concluded: "I would count myself a whining hypocrite if I insisted on the enforcement of the prohibition amendment while remaining silent concerning the disregard of the free speech amendment. If I do not respect the constitution as a whole, I am not fit to speak on behalf of any part of it."

UNHOLY ALLIANCE.

POLITICS AND BAD WHISKY.

(Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 15

At the Prohibition Confrence, Governor Pinchot declared that two facts stood out. One was the steadily increasing determination of decent people to have the law enforced. The other was the steadily increasing violation of the law by criminal elements. It was idle to suggest that the law could not be enforced. The essential reason why boot-legging and defiance of the law were increasing was because the position had not been grasped with a strong hand. Politics was responsible for the black disgrace which had overtaken the nation in the present eruption of law-breaking. Politics came first, and enforcement of the law a poor second. Bad whisky, with beer helping, supplied the sinews of war for politics, which must reciprocate. STERN MEASURES DEMANDED. USE OF NAVAL CRAFT. (Received Tuesday, 11.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 15. The Prohibition Conference adopted a resolution asking President Coolidge to use all available Naval craft and full power action to suppress liquor smuggling and that the Governors of States should rigidly enforce the prohibition laws. ,