The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-05-04
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST
LAW DEFIANCE"


1t is no longer possible to mislead or
TO misrepresent or to minimize the is
sue sprung on the people of Caddo
through a partisan advantage arising
over the death of a gentleman, most
estimable citizen of Ward Eight and a
police juror from that ward
The issue is: For the saloon or
against the saloon.
1t should not be necessary to advance
any argument in opposition to the sal
Don, but there are apologists for the evil
who would have it regulated by the law
for which the average saloonist enter
tains the most emphatic contempt.
The assertion is ventured that not
even the most rabid of ants will charge
that the Caucasian is "puritanicaT or
"fanatical," but it can not understand
how it is possible to regulate the saloon,
which has never been and will not be
regulated
A committee of the ants, in an ad-
dress to the citizens and voters Of
Shreveport and Caddo parish, advances
a plea for regulated saloons, and have
for their slogan: Regulated License
against Blind Tigers" which is met in
An Address" in this issue, presented
BY Judge w. P. Hall, who is chairman
of the Prohibition League, whose slogan
is Law Enforcement against Law De-
fance,"
Let every citizen not biased or allied
to the liquor interests determine where
he should stand. If there are blind
tigers it is because of the fragrant and
predetermined disregard of the law,
which every good citizen should dis
courage and denounce in unmeasured
words.
Blind tigers have been in full sway
when the law did not prohibit the saloon
and blind tigers would continue regard
less of the regulated saloon.
Tn their plea for regulated license
against blind tigers" catch-phrase, the
ants may mislead the unwary, but in the
issue, ineligible to all men, the great
majority of men will be on the side of
law enforcement against law defiance. >
AT best the saloon, if regulated, is a
menace to public safety and is constant
promoter Of disorder and strife, and in
any guise presented its should be sup
pressed.
While it is conceded that the blind
tigers" will persist in their defiance of
law, their evil is not so great as the
saloon, and with determined law en-
forcement their defiance will be minim-
lied, if they are not completely eradi-
Gated from the parish and the city of
Shreveport.
The blind tiger must not be the shield
for the regulated saloon" The issue
as presented and forced on the people
Of Caddo is saloons or no saloons"
There should be no hesitancy in reach
ing a decision.
The Caucasian is opposed to the
saloon because it is the greatest OF evils
and ifs most jealous advocates can not
defend it although they may apologize
for its existence and would have it reg
ulated when it has never been and will
not stand regulation.
After all, this plea for regulated
saloons viii fall on deaf ears. 1t is a
fact that this plea for saloons is made in
the interest of the same men who con
Quoted saloons under license and were
convicted Of violating the law. They
are the same men who sold liquor under
prohibition and were convicted of vio-
Iating the law. What assurance can this
executive committee give that these
same men will not again violate the law ?
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