The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-21

diflleult 70 control OF reach or brint
under the command OF tho law thss'
people ~ you viii the other class
The other class. the other. extreme
10 that claae. law-abiding as to man,
thingA but who feel that as to mat
ters thar pertain TO moral questions
I or a. to habits that they are abovs
the law. 1t IL diff1cuit to reach this
class. It d dlficult TO bring this class
under law-enforcement ! am some
times almost. persuaded that this class
Is more dangerous class TO this
country 1T large than the ont-and-o vi
| lawDreaker. The out-and-out law
breaker knows there Is a law. re
respects It In this, that he does not
undertake to denounce tire law, any
Violations Of 1t he undertakes TO
| screel and prevent the officers from
ever bringing him to justice, but the
class that believes itself TO be above
the law has little respect for the en-
torcement OF II and little respect Tor
/ the officers who enforce It. 1t Is this
class that makes anarchists, and it Ia
this class that tends TO destroy gov
eminent In the sense that government
Is brought In disre pute with many
persons who otherwise probably would
be law-abiding citizens.
| Liquor Interests.
Again, the man who had his money
invested In different lines of the liquor
business has no friendliness for the
law. and he very frankly win tell you
that he viii do what he can TO bring
a repeal OF the dry law He Nmay not
be 30 frank as to tell you that he will
do what he can to break down the
law. He win always be quick to point
out failures and to magnify these
failures This Is another force that
you will have busy all the time. try
Ing to destroy the dry condition and
to bring back the old condition. Phis
force acting concertedly. IN various
will be constantly endeavoring TO
create sentiment for return to the
licensed saloon. You can put this
down--the liquor interests in your
state VIII never be iG.e. On tho con-
trary. during a generation they will
be very active to get back into power
again.
Outside liquor Interests.
Again there is another great factor
that you will have to combat That
factor IL the outside liquor interests.
This is another force that will be con-
stantly busy. The business of the man
in the wet State Is opardized every
time a State goes dry and the law in
that State is enforced. Therefore, the
outside liquor dealer, with ali of his
business at stake. will use all means
at his command to continue doing
business in the dry State This means
concentrated, organized effort of 81
Ioutside liquor dealers to continue &c
do business in a dry State and tc
break down the laws OF a State. They
have their organizations, they have
capable men at the head of them, they
employ the best legal talent that
money will command. You at once
can see that to meet this highly or.
ganized outside business that you must
have your own organized forces. In
this connection your State, a. a dry
State, is a unit, in its efforts to meet
the outside organized interests. Yom
Estate should be a unit anyway tc
meet the outside organized liquor In
terests.
l State Act AS Unit
you will further find that in the
enforcement of law for a dry State
that the fight should be made with the
State as a unit. You will. find tina
the outside liquor interests' wiif~n nder
take to invade your State through th'
common carriers and to- pr oauTs thei
advertisements and solici a ! o n
. through the agency OF the mail ant
, through every other agency. Local
sporadic efforts, alone, to meet a high
lily organized onslaught will not b.
successful.
again. unless there is some cen
trail organization you do not hav
that cooperation and uniform effor
to meet the different factors and op
, position that you are called upon &
meet have already referred t.
some OF these factors. but only L
, some OF the factors. ! say to you
! based upon my own experience, tina
} to meet these different factors ant
a forces there must be Homogeneous
) Organization. with the Stale as uni
} to successfully meet ami nbat thes
} different forces and these dtfferen
. factors
} Public Sentiment Kept Alive.
again, and one OF the most I'm
r portant things that must be done il
your State. You must keep your pub
lie sentiment for your dry laws activ,
} and you must keep pace with tina
} public sentiment when II Is active
Not long ago the secretary OF tn,
) Model License League was in my of
flce. He told me that West Virgins
| would stay dry just 80 long as there
was an interest in having II dry bu
when that interest tagged that thei
the State would drift back. He uset
! the illustration that a new broom
sweeps clean but after a while wear
out, My experience proves to me tina
} he IL right. We have endeavored Il
| keep the public sentiment In this Stat
} for the enforcement of the prohibi
ton amendment alive. and | think tht
sentiment in the State today Is strong
er than It was on the first day of July
| 1914. In fact. think I am eonserva
tive in saying to you that the senti'
/ ment today in the State Is stronge,
than the law. think that the fac
| that the State had department
whose business It was to enforce tn,
law according to the spirit of th'
: amendment and the law has had mucf
J. do with the live sentiment In THU
I State today, Just the moment tina
sentiment gets 'saggy' or becomes dis
integrated perhaps alive In one coun
ty because OF successful enforcement
and dead in another because of lae}
Of enforcement, then you are going t.
lose ground.
Encourages other Officers.
| "Again the different enforcing OF the
, State can be supported and encouraged
, by the State officer In CHARGE OF on
forcement Not only can they be SUP
I ported and encouraged, but there car
be and should be brought about Z
Statewide cooperation BY reason OF Q
, department 10 which all questions may