Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-06-03
mr.. PALMER TALKS ON
ENFORCING PROHIBITION
Anti-Saloon League Head in Ken
tucky Thinks it is Enforced
as Well as Older Laws

emily received a temporary set
back recently through limiting the
number of enforcement officers
because of lack Of funds, in the
opinion of N. A. Palmer. presi-
dent of the Anti Saloon League
of Kentucky. High minded citi-
zens will see that the use of Ii
quor will be restricted, he said.
In this connection Mr.. Palmer
today gave out a statement in
which he declared that although
the prohibition Jaw is young, it is
being enforced just as we'll as
many older laws. He declared
that within a dozen years or
more, the present day opposition
to the law ON the part of some
! persons will have disappeared and
the younger generation OF people
in the main, will forget about Ii
quor.
| 'Probably no question concern
ing civil government, state or ma
tional,' y said Mr.. Palmcr's state
ment, SIS asked by more people
or asked oftener than the ques- !
ton Can the prohibition law bel
enforced?"
TO no small degree this qucs-
ton may be answered by asking
other similar questions about
those things concerning which
we have more experience and cN-
tending through a longer period
of years. Let us ask therefore
whether the laws prohibiting
theft and murder and adultery
can be enforced Can the law pro-
hibiting one from setting fire tc |
the home or barns or business
properties of another be enforc- |
ed?
Can the law prohibiting ono
one from buying goods from tho
merchant or provisions from the
grocer or livestock from the
stock growers or from the ship
per without being required to pay
the price of the purchase? Car
the law compelling q man to lleel
a contract of any kind in any linz
of business be enforced?
Can the law be enforced pre-
hibiting one from selling opiatc.
or other stimulants except thu
government shall have first gran
ed him the privilege to do so un
der stated restrictions for certain
purposes and under certain condi
tions?
Can the law prohibiting a maj
from taking the wife of another
be enforced2:. Can the law b.
enforced prohibiting man from
having more than one wife, or Il
woman from having more thai
one husband?
While these ant almost TN
Vulnerable other legal prohlbl
tions have been on the statut
books of states and nations thr
many decades and some of thel
through many centuries. there
not one of them but is violated.
"All the arguments that need
to be presented to prove the pos
sibility of enforcing the prohibi
tion law is that when the topper
and 'sots' that were created dur
ing the years Of the legalized Ii
quor traffic shall have had time tc
sober up, or die from the use o
the illicit liquors, and d new gen
Grafton shall have taken thei
place. the law prohibiting tn
manufacture and sale of intoxi
eating liquors will then be en-
forced as we'll as most Of the al
most innumerable other prohiBi
ton laws which touch upon ev
cry phase of human life and hui
man activity. many of which are
not as we'll enforced as those
prohibiting the liquor traffic
eff the genuine law abiding cit
liens of Kentucky and of the ma
ton will be true to the construc-
tive government forces and the
government will respond to that
spirit by faithfully and conscien-
tiously performing all the func-,
tions of true government, remem
bering that all these prohibitions
in our statutes are not primarily
prohibitions to those who wouldI
do wrong, but that first of all and
above all and over all they arc
the outstretching hand Of friend
| ly constructive government to-
protect and encourage and help
those citizens who obey the law
and who seek to live correct lives
and thereby make life worth
while to themselves and to all
true citizens.
In the, light of all this let us
ask again the question, Can the