The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-06-18

all those higher up in authority. Re
Gently the mayor Of Chicago, realizing
that this is the source of the flood
OF crimes, ordered a strict enforce
ment Of all laws. Hundreds of haunts,
dens and hotbeds of vice and crime
were raided and in a short time, Chi
cago vas almost bone-dry. If that
great city can be cleaned up so quick
ly, it can be kept fairly clean and
orderly, if the authorities want it so.
And if that can be done in that great,
complicated. cosmopolitan city with
its millions of people, surely a bet
ter enforcement is possible in rural
communities.
Truth-NOt Pessimism
Ladies, my remarks may seem pes
simistic but they are not so intended.
have simply told you the truth as l
see it to rouse you to the need for
continued, valiant, concerted action.
Some people We're so short sighted as
to think that the victory was won
when the Eighteenth amendment was
adopted and the laws to carry it into
effect enacted,-that your Organiza-
ton might then disband as its work
was fully completed. Now, you all
know better than that. There will
still be work along this line for the
younger among you if they live to be
a hundred years old. Remember the
old hymn: N'er think the victory won
nor lay thine armor down"
1t is foolish. Short-sighted and falls
for Your opponents to say that pro
hibition laws are a failure, that the,
cannot be enforced ard should be re
pealed. One man who is opposed !
prohibition may make such a clamo1
Gus howl that some mistake him 20
an army, ever as one, lone, contempi
ible coyote, off on the hill at nigh
yelps so that you might fancy tn;
: there was a pack of fifty or a hun
dred. Do not be discouraged. a
IS great reforms are worked out slOwl
lie The emancipation Of mankind fro
" the bondage of ignorance and sin
be going forward throughout the age
The dissemination of Christ's teac
ings has been at work for almo
1000 years and the goal has not be,
as yet fully attained.
.. Majority Are Law-Abiding
The law-abiding citizens in IL
country are largely in the majorit
% and must win out. The trouble a
weakness is that thousands who q
III with you in spirit have 0 join
your organization or put their shOu
u ers to the wheel to help. All the
3 should be enlisted and at work. Ke
60 on organizing, realign your f2hti
" front, if necessary, and dep0se ali
" authority who are hindering q
blocking your efforts, then march
from victory TO victory. The sho
ing crimes and disorder arising fl
a failure to enforce these laws '
finally compel the people to arise
their Indignation and might and
sist upon the enforcement Of tn
laws.
While conditions. are far from W
we wish them TO be yet wonder
progress has already been made.
most forty years ago, when y
speaker and wife came to MOnts
there were saloons upon nearly ev
street corner, running w~ide-Open,
and night, Sabbaths and holiday
they never locked their doors.
same was true of gambling d
The same was true Of beer, and da
halls. where throughout the coun
thousands of men, women and g
mingled in indiscriminate DRUM
demOralizing carousals. These
ments of society dominated ev
community-they ruled politics.
misruled the Territory and State
years. The law-abiding citizens sea