New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-25

thdt the dnts OF enforcement Is a
federal duty with which the state has
no concern,
This l. an iRSivisihie union OF In
destruetihle states, The Civil war
settled that. Neither nation nor state
can set aleng without the other any
more than one vital member OF the
body can set along without another
vital member, Every state owes the
highest moral duty to cooperate
with the federal government in en-.
forcing this law, and when a state
like New York refuses 10 cooperate,
she takes a stand which is indefen-
sible under the principles upon which
the fathers founded this government.
indefensible too. In good morals. and
patiently indefensible from a prae-
tieal standpoint. For nothing could
be palmer than the point so trench
antly made by Homer Cummings.
that the policing OF aha country can
not he undertaken exclusively by the
federal government, but must be
done largely through local govern
ments and local officials. The denial
OF concurrent power Is really the ar
firmation OF the federal right TO
usurp all powers OF police which are
vested In the states and whose usur-
patton would fundamentally change.
II not destroy. our government.
Disrcspect For Law.
That which has aroused me 10 ac-
ton is not alone interest In the cause
OF prohibition as such. l saw a.
steadily growing disrespect for the
law. II II had been confined to the
criminal classes. cor the ignorant or
hayward, the officials could have
met 1t and In time conquered II.
But when. the men who repre-
country defy and hount the constitu-
ton and the law and become the pa
irons of the bootlegger and when
they are Joined by very consider
able group of educated men who see
in the restriction OF this amendment
and these laws a restriction upon
their right of action, and when these
are Joined by some of the radicals
and the parlor socialists of the coun-
try to whom liberty means license
to do as they please, the situation
becomes a hard one to deal with. In
Connecticut, it is one that the Off
GERS of the law, cannot, as rule, |
wholly cope with. unless there shall
be better support, more courageous
effort, for them, among God-fearing
and God-loving people of this COM
among those who place
the law of the land above the gratif-
cation of their bellies. Who should
help if not you? You, who are re-
sponsible under your oath to enforce
this law and all criminal laws.
Law Is Essential.
Everything that we have, all that
we do, all of our institutions of lib
erty, of civic welfare, yes of religion
herself, are dependent upon law.
Break this down, let this reign of I
lawlessness go on. and ultimately the
lowly and the criminaly inclined will
insist upon it that there must be
equality in the right of lawlessness;
then it's but step to disintegration,
social wreckage and anarchy.
If you cannot see, as | do, the
universal evils which come from con-
Linued disrespect for law, then let me
put my appeal upon other ground.
and publicists agree that
the great determining influence in
this country through all
her years has been the constitution
IF our country. interpreted as it was
BY the clear intellect. lofty patriot
SIN and superb judicial statesman
ship of John Marshall.
Among all our national posses
'ions there is no single one so price
ess to the people of these United
States as their national constitution.
t has been our protector and savior
n times past. 1t may be unpleasant
o say it to our neighbors and
riends, but it is true. and it must
,e said. The violation of the 18th
amendment Is an unpatriotic act, and
hose who indulge in it are in fact
y that act, traitorous to their coun-
ry. We must make 1t felt. The
nan who deals with the booteggerl
n that act Is unpatriotic. 5
THAT you may have before you the t
haracter of this unlawful traffic and S
IS baneful influence and terrible con-