Evening star., 1924-05-16
Americas Future and Problems
NO. III.
Failure of Prohibition Held Greater Scandal Than Teapot
Dome Revelations.

of intoxicating drink. Under the law,
| the United States alone, through the
Treasury Department, has the power
to control and check the now of i'll
legal liquor at it's source. 1t can,
but 1T does not Over and over again
| / have pointed out just why the flood
of Illegal alcohol continues in Penn
| sylvania, just why the breweries con-
tiDue ITO brew and distribute strong
beer, and precisely what are the SIM
pie means by which both can be
stopped Washington refuses to put
those means to use.
| 1t happens that | believe in prohi-
bition, but that has nothing to do
with the effort l am making TO en-
| force the eighteenth amendment in
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The law is the law. 1t is my sworn
duty as governor to see that the law
| is enforced. With every power have
L propose to carry that duty out with
out hesitation or compromise to the
last hour of my administration.
am glad to enforce the law, for i
| do not forget the immense benefits
| which the eighteenth amendment, in
| spite of poor enforcement, in spite OF
| bootlegging, in spite of all the crime
| is today conferring on the people OF
| the United States. Neither do / forget
| the moral degradation which follows
the refusal of law officers to enforce
| the law, and of officials and citizens
| to obey it.
| + 4 X
| We are proud to call ourselves a
self-governing people. Either we are
| just that, and therefore capable OF
making and keeping whatsoever laws
we choose, or we are ruled BY few
thousand criminals who have decided
that we, the people OF the United
| States do not know our own mind, OIL
| who propose to repeal the eighteenth
| amendment by ultimatum and ruI
| this government for their own per
! sonal profit-the Constitution to the
contrary notwithstanding.
am an American citizen and as
| such bound by every consideration
of loyalty and gratitude to my coun.
| try to stand by it's Constitution and
| obey it's laws / am a sworn official
| under solemn oath to obey and de-
| fend the Constitution and enforce the
laws. What is more, every ofticia
| of overy township, county, city anc
| state, and of the nation itself, has
| taken the same oath / have the
| choice to keep my oath and with II
| my Self-reSpect, or to disregard II
| The evidence is clear that thousands
| keep their oath and consequently
have lost all title to respect of any
| kind, as we'll as to the name of loya
| American.
| What we need in Law enforcement
| just as We need it in the administ ra-
ton of the conservation policy ano
| in Teapot Dome. is clear-eyed honesty
| in government-honest SO evident
| that doubt will vanish and confidence
return.
| The third great issue before the
American people is the conservation
of natural resources. The conserva-
| ton policy is so simple and so evil
IDENTIFY right that it was understood
| and adopted by the people of the
| United States more promptly than
to them. In three days the. great
meeting of governors held in the
| White House in the spring of 1905
taught the American people the
| meaning of the word conservation
| then unknown in the sense in which
| we use it now, and made it a part
of our national ideals of government
| Since that time the public under
| standing of it and the public devo-
| tion to it have steadily grown. At
| tacks upon it have merely left i,
more firmly established Today
| strengthened by the revelations il
the oil scandals, the policy Of con.
| servation is a more vital issue il
the minds of American people thar
| ever before.
Tomorrow: Senator Thomas j. Walsh
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| Britain by North America Newspaper Anis nee
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