Douglas Island news., 1916-11-03
CAN IT BE ENFORCED?

and far stealing from his children rre loving care and protection of rac.r father.
 Gam th.s law be culorccde
 If tbc people of Alaska vote for it r win mean that they are ready and willing and anxious Go enforce it li rre, want to enforce it they win do ns.r part through their local officers tn each town. and thc United States government win instruct thc '. $. deputy marsbus Go assist If they do uot do it thc people have bat Co state tbc facts before the authorities ar Washington and men will be ra.,u m che positions who will More U s marshals throughout che country have lost their positions dur. ue tHc past tcu years through being blind when there was liquor iu sight thau from amy other cause.
 When Uncle sam sits down on the ud lt vuI stay down. and Congress .au be depended upon Co supplement rH, work ot our legislature iu mak- mc ample provision for thc enforce ment ot thc law. The attitude of congress is indicated by thc fact that rt che last session a bill to make all of tHc territories dry was seriously considered and only failed ot passage because or che pressure of other bus mess brought about by che Mexican and European troubles.
 As aI liquor which comes iu must bc brought from California by boat to win not take many wide-uwuke officer, to discover it and empty any illegal shipments into thc sea before they arrive British Columbia and Washington and Oregon are dry and their authorities would cooperate with ours u preventing Illegal ship mouts from their ports And when California goes dry. as it may do be- fore thc Alaska law would become caeotIyc. Che nearest wet port would bc .u Mexico
 For small town like Skagway ,o struggle siuglchaudcd against the determined effort of thc National Liquor dealers Association Co prove that "prohibitiou does not prohibit  when unlimited supplies ot liquor are ls close at hand as Haiucs and Ju- uelu is one thing; and for che whole territory to enforce its law whom tbe nearest drink of booze is u California Is another thing
 When thc liquor Is hard enough fo scr that there is uo profit iu boot Icaruz. there win Doc uo bootleg EuE
 Can tbis law bc cuforccde
 Iu Seattle. where the liquor pco- plc tcu us tbc law is not being enc forced even tbc partial enforcement which has been accomplished has reduced au other crimes and mis- dcmcauor, to such au extent that. counting 8l thc arrests made iu their 'cGort Co enforce the prohibition law. including che spectacular raids which have been played up for front page stories by thc newspapers. and u. .eIudiuE thc arrests growing out o. Ithc unusual conditions developed . thc Iougshorcmeu's strike. Che atuc police have arrested only har as many since January l. 1916. c.. were placed in joil during thc san period ot 1915. which was an ord nary year under "wct" conditions.
 The officials of Portland. Tacom Spokane. Aberdeen. Hoquiam ar other cities Of Washington and O., ror rcrorf as great an1 most of thrr au even greater reduction in crime, which means that 1t costs less in ef. ios and money to enforce prohibi- ton and all the other laws with 1t, than to enforce the other laws alone when the saloons are licensed and running wide open.
 The prohibition law can be and win be enforced whenever the peo. pie of Alaska vote to put it on thC statute books.