Evening star., 1920-01-16
.TOSHOW NOFAVOR
ENFORCING DRY ACT
Attorney General Gives AS
surance to Meeting at
Liberty Hut.

| Enforcement of the prohibition law
rests on the same footing in the De-
partment OF Justice as the enforce
| nent of any other law, said Attorney
| General Palmer IN an address AT
| Jubilee rally of the International Re-
! form Bureau at Liberty Hut last nlght,
and he promised that the enlorceiienI
would be without fear or favor, win
| out passion or prejudice. on every one
alike and everywhere alike.
! The Attorney General was the pr1n-
cipaI speaker at the second ana maj
| night of the jubilee at the nut otnerS
on the program being Representative
Clyde Hoey of North Carolina, Repre-
sentative w. d. Upshaw of Georgia
and officers of the bureau. Or. ROBERT
| Watson, president of the bureau, pre-
! sided.
Representative Upshaw and Dr
| Watson both referred TO Mr.. Palmer
as 'probably the next President OF the
United States,'' and each time the
crowd cheered the suggestion.
Attorney Generals Address.
| In his speech the Attorney General
| made no reference to his possible can
didacy.
! Il believe that in this audience. as
we'll as in any representative audience
| the people are in favor of enforcing
| the law of the land" said Mr.. Palmer
| in beginning his talk. Il have heard
| it said that no law can be enforced
unless it is a popular measure. but
| | do not believe it. Americans are
! law bidfng people and they Will sup
| port an officer who enforces a law,
whether it is popular or not l do not
I believe there is a city or a town IN
the United States where it will be i'm
possible to enforce prohibition be-
cause of public opinion.
al nuhlic opiDioD ChanPe the
| laws. if it desires. but let not public
| opinion connive at their violation"
! Would Protect Law-Abiding Citizen.
, Mr.. Palmer said that the law must
| be enforced to protect the law biding
| citizen against the crooks" who
would violate the law. He said he
| had heard of brewers who had
changed the equipment of their plants
| and begun the manufacture of some
harmless drink therein.
They are typical American busi-
ness men meeting changing conditions
| in businesslike way, and l have
great respect for them," said the
speaker They ought to be encour-
aged and supported. yet some un-
scrupulous persons have been able to
put out an unlawful product that
competes with this legitimate indus
try. The law-abiding man is entitled
to protection against them, and so
long as the officers of the law are un-
der my control l promise you he will
get it"
Profiteering and radicalism were
chara ct erized by Mr.. Palmer as indi-
cations of a supreme selfishness. Re-
ferring to the recent raids against
radicals. he said fear had been ex-
pressed that the right of free speech
had been abridged. He said this was
not so. and that the sacred right was
still secure, adding:
so far as | know, no man or wom-
an has been arrested, much less held,
whether citizen or alien. for mere ex-
preston of opinion. political or other
wise. All those taken into custody
have openly and publicly advocated
destruction of our government by
force and violence"
Enough Laws to Satisfy Everybody.
There ought to be enough kinds
of government in the world now to
satisfy everybody" continued Mr.
Palmer, ''and if people do not like
our kind let them go hunt one that
suits them. This government should
be preserved in the form that our
forefathers founded it. And when a.
foreigner arrives on our shores it
ought to be made clear to him that
we have fought and won our revolu-
ton, and as soon as he sets foot on
our shores he has fought and won
his revolution"
In concluding. the Attorney General
prophesied "a cleaner better, strong
er America by reason of all these re-
forms we have been able to bring
in"