New Britain herald., 1915-12-13

but one mans personal liberty ceases Where another begins. The personal nDerty or the man who runs an auto moolle ceases where the personal hb- erty of the pedestrian begins and so society is able to get on. Liberty IS 1 restricted to it's good use. I cannot do what l will with even my own child Society says that I must send him to public school, etc. I cannot destroy my own property even though in doing so I do not injure another, be- cause society has set itself against waste and so personal liberty has its bounds. Certainly one of those bounds must come if one mans per sonal liberty makes it possible to set before another man and his boy one of the most dangerous temptations and causes him to bear burdens con- sequent of the others privilege.
 "The fact that it is so difficult to
 enforce the restriction and prohibition
 of liquor is not very good testimony
 to the law abiding character of those
 who handle it. In America the major
 ity rule, yet let any city in Connecti-
 cut or elsewhere go dry and rather
 than aiding that condition as good
 citizens CT even pulling out and let
 ting things aloe. the liquor interests
 invariably use all the influence and money possible to make it appear that
 the law is enforced as well as it can be for any length of time the liquor forces begin to pull off. Money is great question with them and they
 will n Jt continue a losing financial
 fight.
 we have the government statistics
 before us to show that in the wet ter
 ritory of the U. S., there is really
 more illegal selling than in the dry
 Under the guise of a federal tax there
 are blind pigs and speak easies' and all kinds of illegal saloon business going on in every license state in the country. In almost every one of these states these figures show that these places which are evading the license law are almost as numerous as the legal saloon. so that the liquor law does not stop nonenforcement. When one stops to think of what creates 1 the joint it is evident why the above 1 is true. It is not laws against liquor l dealing that creates these places. ! These places have become necessary 1 to take care of the man who has gone
 so far in his habits of drunkenness 1 that the regular saloon will not allow l 1 will not stand for it. but the habit is upon him and he must find some place l to satisfy lis habit There is only one 1 place-it is the joint or dive, or blind 1 pig. whatever you call it, which now 1 offers to meet this mans need. Were
 l it not for such men-men who have | been made what they are and then 1 cast out by the regular saloon-there 1 would be no place for the illegal sa- 1 loon.
 1 "The argument of .nonenfOrcement
 l is fundam entally wrong in the t1rst 1 place from the fact that all law of re- , striction is based on the violation Of l principle. The Only reason we have l laws prohibiting anything is because l some principle of human interest was | being violated so frequently that TOT the protection of society the law had 1 to be made. It is therefore not to be l expected that all violation of this l principle will cease when the law is 1 made. The opposite is rather to be 1 expected-that for a time, at least, the l law will be violated. until through the 1 penalty and through the good results which accrue the people see it's worth. 1 Right here is one of the great troubles. 1 A city goes dry and they get it for l year
 "At end of that time many declare l that the dry conditions cannot be en- i forced! Lecause they have not been [ well enforced that year. No city can
 be made dry in a years time, especial 1 ly when those forces who do not want l it dry do their utmost to keep it wet 1 But let any city set out with determln- ation and willingness to pay the first l cost though it take ten years to do 1t, l and that city will in all probability 1 not return to the wet column. At any
 rate that is the history of such trials. 1 Experience of Kansas City. i Let me finish this by telling you of l the story Of very wet city that went l dry and stayed,
 Liquor Probe.
 1 Kansas City, Kansas a city about ! the size of New Britain, situated in . Wianott county, just across the river
 from Kansas City, Mo. Most of the l saloons in Kansas City were owned by brewers in Kansas City, Mo. When 1 Attorney General Jackson took office ] in 1906 he appointed Charl.s w. 1 rricket a special assistant attorney 1 general to go to Kansas City, Kansas, l and enforce the liquor law. MT.