Seward daily gateway., 1925-07-09
coy. PLAYS MELLON REFUSAL TO CARRY
 OUT ENFORCEMENT

! TOh LAlSO, OlS., July "' Nl
 retary of the Treasury Andrew Mel lon "has refused to carry out the du- ties of his office,' in the enforcement of the prohibition law.
 So Governor Pinchot of Pennsylva- nia declared in an address before the convention of the United Societies or Christian Endeavor the other night
 "The bootleggers are bold" Cover nor Pinshot said, because they kno" that the government of the United States has never yet determined to put an end to their criminal traffic. They know, you know, and I know that the Treasury Department could have set its foot down al any time and removed this scandal from the good name of the United States.
 Secretary Mellon has for four sol i'd years had the power and the money, and by driving politics out of the en- forcement service he could at any time have had the men. He has re- fused to carry out the duties of his office, and far too many of the good people of the United States have op- enly or tacitly supported him in that refusal, because they figured that Mel lon was good for business.
 "Secretary Mellon, for the better part of generation a whiskey distil- Ter and whiskey distributor and only within the last few weeks divested of his interest in millions of dollars worth of whiskey, was chosen to en- force this law and accepted the re- sponsibility for enforcing this law. The result, and the natural result, is known to every man and woman who cares to think
 T hope most earnestly that the ap- pointment of General Andrews as head of the law enforcement service of the Treasury Department means that this abominable situation this scandal which by the shameful failure of the government itself has outgrown every measure, is about to be taken in hand honestly, vigorously, and with the intention of getting results. When that happens, the day of the bootleg ger will rapidly draw to its close"
 The responsibility for "open defi- ance of law" also rests partly on "the citizens who have tolerated it when they could have stopped it. for in such matters the people have all the power" Governor Pinchot said
 "The criminal elements of our pop ulation," according to the governor, "are banded together from one end of this country to the other to pour poison into the mouths of our people, to instill disrespect of the law in the souls of our people, and to hold up the hands of every anarchist, bolshavist, or other enemy of our institutions. No such widespread defiance of the will of the people has ever ben known in America, and no such flood of pow erty, crime, disease and death has ev- er before flower from such defiance"
 Governor Pinchot also discussed the giant power problem, saying i've are at the beginning of a new electrical | civilization which will be as different l from that of steam as the age of steam | was from the ages which went before it."
 He warned that giant power would mean a monopoly, of which there must be reflective public control
 The governor in opening his speech l attacked "those people who believe rightly and whose personal lives are blameless," but who refuse to fight | for their beliefs "A huge part of the l blame for the evils which exist in our body polite rest sQuarely on the churchgoing people" who, in Roose- velts phrase, mean we'll feebly," the governor said
 The Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poying, min- ister of the Marble Collegiate Church of New York City, referred to the Christian Endeavor movement as "the