AMERIGA’S “DRY” LAW

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11651, 16 October 1923, Page 5

AMERIGA’S “DRY” LAW

GAUNTLET THROWN DOWN “PRESIDENT ALONE CAN MEET EMERGENCY. R PENALTIES TOO MILD. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian «n:l \.Z. Oabia As.-**<aaUo;i (Received October 15, 7.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 14. Air Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, addressing the Prohibition Conference, demanded that President Coolidge take personal charge of tho enforcement of national UTobibit'on, ae George Washington did in. the cava of the “whisky rebellion.” Air Pinchot declared that the Federal officials* were encouraging the breaking of that law, were responsible for liquor smuggling, and wero acting as graft collectors. “The law cannot be enforced until the enforcement of prohibition is taken from politics, and responsibility centred in the President. He alone can meet the emergency. The liquor violators have thrown down the gauntlet to all law' under the Government of tho United vStatcs.” Mrs Willebrandt, Assistant AttorneyGeneral of the United States, who is in charge of the prosecution of the Prohibition laws, declared that the penalties for violations were too mild, and she attacked the acts of foreigners who were openly contracting to violate the United States prohibition laws.