Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-10-14
PRESIDENT FOR
ENFORCEMENT
LIQUOR Laws
Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes Declares Admins
tration Rendering All Pos
sible Assistance
Especial 10 The Herald.l

WASHINGTON. Oct. 13-- President
Coolidge stands fourSquare for enforce
ment Of the prohibition law. lie II no
less wholehearted regarding this matter
than the late President Harding. The
Department Of Justice is also dead in
earnest"
These facts were flatly stated Satur-
day BY Prohibition Commissioner Roy A.
Haynes. at the session of the Citizen
ship Conference. The meeting was
called by 756 influential men and women
OF the conutry in the interest Of the en-
forcement of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Nolstead Act
More than thousand men and women
from all over the country have reg
istered "a delegates to the conference.
which will continue in session and Mon
day. They represent religious. moral
and social forces. Government officials.
governors. United States senator's, con-
gressmen. labor leaders, .churehmen--
both JeT and Christian-are taking part.
Commissioner Haynes stated that the
prohibition law is being enforced but
that even its best friends do not expect
100 per cent enforcement at this time.
lie intimated that II will take approx
mately ten years 10 bring about coun-
trywide enforcement. He said that the
present difficulty with the enforcement
Of the volstead Act may be termed -sec-
tional." Adverse public opinion, accord
ing 10 Mr.. Haynes. II TO be found mainly
on the eastern seaboard. although there
are other localities where enforcement II
difficult and where the press is not fav-
orable.
In his address. Commissioner said in
part:
when America stands mt the cross
road in times Of crisis The always looks
to the Church and affiliated bodies for
leadership.
Moral ideals and sentiment will
never rise higher than the church. Poll
ticians cannot be expected 10 take more
advanced positions than those taken by
the pulpit. My plea to the pulpit is that
IL shall not surrender its moral leader.
ship to the lawyer. the banker, the doc
tor. the merchant, or any other outside
professional, Industrial or commercial
class
In the main, / do not believe that
the friends Of prohibition law enforce
ment are discouraged. IL seems to be
the enemies Of prohibition very largely
that are so concerned over the failure
a. they see il. Of enforcement. after a
three or four year trial.
However, I do not believe that the
friends Of enforcement have any ade-
quate conception of the amazing on
slaught which is now in progress and is
under contemplation by the enemy. IL
was not expected, by the friends of pro-
hibition that enforcement would closely
approximate 100 per cent success i'm
three. four, ten or twelve years after the
adoption of the law. We expected
reasonable progress through persistent,
calm. patient, sincere application to that
end
The charge Of wholesale violations
j. unfounded. No decent American COM
munity long tclerates a nuisance. In
herently. Americans are law abiding.
Communities with large numbers of
foreigners naturally show less. progress
in enforcement than those communities
with fewer numbers Of the foreign type:
but. even In su h communities, II IN most
essential that the leaders OF public
thought and civic righteousness show
~ 'N"'Ptfs dN NtH u pftuCulutut, tuHt
they have high regard for constituted
land. The appeal for observance Of this
law by the leaders Of our political, COM
mercial, industrial and social phases OF
our national activities should 70 out i'm
clarion tones to all parts of the nation.
In my judgment, another Of the chief
difficulties hampering more rapid prob
ress in enforcement today IN the lack
OF the proper patriotic attitude in these
factors OF our national life These fac
tors are more dependent upon the laws
of the country for the protection of
their own large property interests than
any other factors. They cannot, with
safety. continue a. negotiative attitude
and an Indifferent attitude towards the
enforcement and the observance OF this
law.
There has been widely he-alded the
thought that this law was intended only
for the poorer classes and the working
men. Every well-informed litizen
knows this statement 10 be absolutely
false. and n lack Of general obedience
on the part Of the weather influential
strata of American life will hinder the
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