The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-06
TIMES DISPATCH WOULD CRIPPLE a
LAW TT HATES.

Loud and persistent shreks on behalf # economy
from the editorial sanctum Of the TimesDspatch ers
while champion # nowoutlawed business eVerasngy the
TO take its editorials they without background Of
knowledge of the TimesDispatohs impaoa6le hostility to
prohibition and without giving thought to the tact tnat mas
protested against single dollar Of other proposed ao
priaons amounting nearly $200ooo the assnal reader
might conclude hat the Times Dispatch is the or ginai
treasury watch dog
For be it known all this editorial wan is directed to the
one purpose emitting the appropriation for enforcing
prohibition N state which has determined cgaze
the liquor trait whinits borders and has done all
10 drive that nefarious business from he nation
In the interest of economy approval Of the great body
of taxpayers nexcusabe waste - almost criminal waste
few Of the stock phrases by this friend of the liquor
business in opposing IN this one lte~1
Yet sentence the Times Dispatch let's fall cine to
its motives, when says: Statewide prohibition is here, IN
ALL PROB4B ABILITY to stay The capitals The
idee back Of all the nose and waTdsguse that there re
POSSIBILITY however remote that liquor may come
back the Golfers of the esDspatch be filled of old
To this end the Times Dispatch dares not direct It's efforts
openlv-that would be sofdestructi~e.
But cripple the law itself to bring about conditions which
would result in wholesale and violations Of the law with
army boogge backed by the most crooked and vicious
nationwide organization Of outlaws hat ever existed
HELP TO BRING THE LAW ITSELF INTO DlSREPOlE"
And that is exactly what the Times Dispatch wants.
That paper has accepted the principle Of prohibition
II has been compelled by the logic of events admit that the
law has worked surprisingly well Reluctantly it even
cages mea mouhed and hafheartod expressions ne
favorable to prohibition all for the purpose OF better conceal
Greater than its hatred for 6e people of Virginia who voted
adopt prohibition deeper than It's nnd1ng anmoety to
the leaders who directed the memorable campaigns against the
corrupt business which il tried to defend its ncessant
ing for the Of days like those when whskev and beer
advertisements crowded the pages Of the TmesDpatch and
conmandeerod its editorial and news columns
The cry Of economy coming from such source is pure pre-
tence.
The Times Dispatch knows perfectly we'll tha the depart
men prohibition has been of direct and
direct saving which, taken together, yields amount vastly
greater asked for maintaining the work so
well begun The Times Dispatch knows that the taxpayers will
not dig from their pockets single additional dollar to
pay the added needed to keep liquor OF
qinia The Times Dispatch rows that al the efforts Of
larger centralized force with all the help that possibly be
gver by local officers, is required to make - law entirely
effective
The Times Dispatch the law.to break down The
easfsst way the end desires Is possible 70
cripple department of prohibition There Is absolutely
nothing else raucous attacks upon the pending Mapp bill