The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-03-21

American, a man VINO had three times
been a candidate for the presidency,
had spoken in this very hall. and on
the question of public morals. This
man, w. j. Bryan, had earnestly coun-
ciled the members of his party nCl to
become e,ntangled in the net OF the
saloons, to keep the party free from
tAe whisl1ey taint.
In taking up the strictly moral side
of the question, Judge Pope said that
We're it not for the fact that the sa-
loon trade was recruited from the
youth of the land il would die of it
self. This constituted one of the great
dangers of the saloon, it reaching out
for the youth of tae land. both boys
and girls, affecting and running both
sexes. lie appealed to the fathers
and mothers to avert this great dan
ger from Roswell.
The speaker then took up and care
fully analyzed some of the objections
advanced against prohibition. One
of these. he said. was that pronibi-
ton did not proiibit. He asserted
that he knew the public officials OF
Roswell, both in recent years and at
present, ne knew the kind of men who
constituted the juries of the district,
and he knew tnat If a No-License law
was placed on the ordinance books of
the city that these men would en-
force il. He referred to the gam bling
law. One of the objections to it,
when gambling houses were running
up and down Main street, was that it
could not be enforced. Now every
one knows that it is enforced as 9TH
er laws are enforced.
No law prevents the crime at which
il il aimed. The laws against muir
der do not prevent murders; laws
against other forms of crime do not
prevent these crimes entirely, but
they do cut them down to a minimum
and provide punishments for their vi
olation.
cense law IL would be enforced as
other laws are enforced. He pledged
that cases brought before the district
court would be fairly and i7npartially
tried, and proved violators of sucn a
law would be punished insofar as the
court could see to IL.
The State of Kansas was referred
TO as a fair example of the workings
of prohibition. That state has had
laws against saloons for years, and
has gone through the various phases
of laxity of enforcement, working
down gradually to strict enforcement
Of the law. Judge Pope quoted the
owner of a large business block on
cd
tor of a Kansas newspaper. This man
had told him that he had fought pro-
hibition IN Kansas for years, but that
he was now bound to admit that the
law was strictly enforced, and, fur
thermore, that il was a good law fol
the state and people of Kansas An
oLner man who knew Kansas condi
tions thoroughly had told aim the Law
was enforced there and that il was q
| good thing for Kansas.
The No-License law could be en-
forced in Roswell. and the speaker
said he believed 1t would be enforced
here after April Fifth
Another objection advanced agains
the closing of the saloons was tina
boot logging would take place, anS
| Ln1I large QuantitlGS Oh iQuoT "Sus
be shipped in The speaker admitted
that this was true TO certain extent
The old topers would perhaps. still
get their liquor. but the young Ie'
would not become addicted to tn
habit Boot-legging could and woul'
he suppressed In this connection
Judge Pope spoke OF the effect OF thi
particular phase of the question upo'
the young men of Artesia- That plac
is dry. and has been so for some time
Formerly as presiding Judge OF tn
court held in that country he had ha,
great trouble with young men i'm Al
tesla, many cases coming before Tn
court since the saloons had bee
cut out this had ceased. and he hai
now no sucn cases. This had proves
to his satisfaction that the suppres
Sion or the saloons had saved thes