AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

PROBLEMS OF ENFORCEMENT. GOVERNOR, PINCHOT’S CRITICISM. Prcsa Association —By Telegraph—Copyrig-t NEW YORK, October 15. At the Prohibition Conference Governor Pinchot declared that two facts stood out. One was the steadily increasing determination of decent people to have the law enforced, and the other was the steadily increasing violation of the law by the criminal elements. It was idle to suggest, he said, that the law could not be enforced. The essential reason why bootlegging and defiance of the law were increasing was because the position nad not been grasped with a strong hand. Politics were responsible for the blacK disgrace which had overtaken the nation. The present, eruption of law-breaking came from two causes—first, the Jaw enforcement was poor; and, secondly, bad whisky, with beer, was helping to supply the sinews of war for politics, which must reciprocate.—Sydney Sun Cable.

WEALTHY, CLASSES BLAMED. SENATOR BORAH’S DENUNCIATION. WASHINGTON, October 15. (Received Oct. 16, at 7.30 p.m.) Senator Borah, addressing the Prohibition Conference declared that the wealthy and propertied classes had rendered Prohibition unenforceable because while they respected the constitutional amendment safeguarding -property they nevertheless ignored Prohibition, thus fostering the bootleggers’ traffic. Senator Borah, after attacking this unequal respect for law's, 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 vhe Free Speech Amendment. If I do not respect the Constitution as a w'hole I am not fit to speak on behalf of any part of it.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. USE OF NAVY REQUESTED. A COMPREHENSIVE RESOLUTION. WASHINGTON, October 15. The Prohibition Conference adopted a resolution asking President Coolidge to use all the available naval craft and his full powers of action to suppress liquor smuggling, and the Governors of _ the States rigidly to enforce the prohibition laws.—A. and N.Z. Cable.