The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-19
WORLD WATCHES U. s. DRY FIGHT,
 AYERS WHEELER
Law. Enforcement Most Important Issue, League
 Council Says

WINONA LAKE, Ind, July 1S.- (By Associated Press. )-@The fight for law enforcement is the most important issue before this nation," said Wayne B, Wheeler, general counsel and leg1e- lative superintendent for the Anti Saloon League of America, in an ad- dress today at the conference of the World League Against Alcoholism.
 "Nothing else matters" he con. tinued, Eff we confess that we cannot enforce our laws, we cease to be nation. We become, instead, mob. If law-breakers, and not lawmakers con- trol our policy, anarchy is supreme. Every foe of law and order will take new courage. If we announce to a skeptical world that we have not the courage to hold to q victorious ideal because lawless mentoppose it, then any World court ideals will be discounted likewise. Democracy will not be trusted by these nations. which have discarded kings. Human progress will be turned back and the current now steadily setting toward a golden age will lose it's force in a backwater. Nothing else matters so much as that the will of the majority, expressed in legal and orderly fashion, shall prevail.
 Accepts Challenge
 "The law-abiding ma ajority of the nation accepts the challenge of a wet minority that the constitution cannot be and ought, not to be enforced. Recent victories for law and order inspire new confidence. Both of the dominant polit- ical parties in their. conventions at Cleveland and New York turned down Al. 4 tJ.a. fan V,I0vkc and for the first time adopted law enforce ment blanks, indicating their determine. tion to defeat the vets program of law defiance. The independent platform ignored the plea for beer.
 'The last Congress defeated every ef- for to weaken the national enforcement code and enacted seven measures to strengthen law enforcement.
 Both the. democratic and republican conventions indorsed the bill to put prohibition agents under civil service which passed the House by an over whelming majority.
 'The wet, forces are starting their attacks ton state enforcement codes. They will fail if the dry forces are awake. s ,f assk
 .aTheseoaaFsssia -state lesisla. tive districts are the forums for deter mining whether effective enforcement laws shall stand or fall.
 "Evry friend of law enforcement must register and vote. Failure at this point means uncomfortable laws and increased lawlessness. We are fighting the greatest known evil of modern times and winning the greatest moral victory ever achieved by self-governing peo- pie. .ss 5g
 World Watches
 "The best manhood of the world is watching us. We are encompassed with cloud of witnesses. If we fail, then the world will abandon hope for pro- hibition. We are equipped for this fight as is no other nation. We have every strategic advantage. Our foe is waging only a guerilla warfare. We hold ev- cry intrenched post. There is no fail ure except by surrender. Stimulated by our example, other peoples are teIlta. lively opening the fight against the liquor forces of their nations. Where we lead, they follow. We can lead the world to an age where drunkenness is as strange as human slavery, if we only have faith and courage. We will lead the world into the deepest bond. age to the brewery barons and the lords of drink if we finch. The United States is the hope of the age. We must, we can, we will win"