The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-28
The Week
1. Two Careers
2. Justice In Chicago
8. Prohibition Question
A. Horse Racing A Business
ROSCOE SIMMONS :

furnished special car to bear the
body of Calvin Battle, one of its
porters, from that city to Boston
Ga.
Calvin Battle and the millionaire
president of that road, C. X. Pid.
cock, white, made the first run to.
gether more than 81 years ago. Both
have served 1t faithfully for these
long years, the white man starting
as engineer and Battle as porter
They both put brain and devotion
into their work, but the cruel hand
of prejudice laid it's hands on Bat
tie, while Pidcock advanced step by
step to its presidency.
When you read this, don't say
Georgia's prejudice; the same thing
is happening every day in every sec
tion of these United States.
2. When black and white are ar
rayed before the bar of justice in
the United States 1t is the general
thing and common occurrence for
justice to depart from the court
rooms and the Jekylls and Hydes of
Jurisprudence to mount the benches.
1T is Jekyll- for white, and Hyde
for the blacks. There is no justice
for u.s." says the swarthy cynic.
THE Government is no good" cries
out the philosophical anarchist of
sombre complexion. I'VE will never
get a square deal in this country"
means the pessimist, but there are
many judges in many towns and
cities in America where justice is
administered with mercy and equal
ity-where all men are equal in the
eyes of the law and where the stern
eyes of God-fearing servants of the
law peer into hearts and souls of
men and disregard the color of their
skins. Chicago is one such place
In Chicago before the bar when
black and white are arrayed justice
prevails. Justice and fair-dealing
are the rules and discrimination,
prejudice and unfairness the excep-
tions.
With all of its bootleg scandals
and murders, with its bandit gangs
and outlawry, with all of its front
ier roughness and uncouthness Chi
oago seems to mete out more un-
diluted Justice than any ether city
in the American nation. There are
instances and cases where race and
religion seeps into the court rooms.
there are incidents where powerful
forces bring prejudice to bear, but
they are rare. Day in and day out
our hundred or more lawyers prac-
tice before the courts and secure
justice for their clients Justice sits
on the bench in Chicago.
3. Whatever view you take of the
prohibition question you will prob
ably agree with Clarence Darrow
that capital punishment by poison"
is a severe sentence to mete out to
those who are unfortunate enough |
to get hold of some of the Govern |
ment's "denatured" alcohol.
The bootlegger who sells the pol |
son knowingly may deserve this fate.
as for instance a recent Baltimore
man who got the ''poisons" mixed
and drank to his death concoction |
he had prepared for another, but
the worst "winebibbers" would not
be executed by poison If given their
day in court
In Baltimore death records are |
showing an alarming increase in
deaths from alcoholism. There are |
those, however. who hold that the
human race will be benefited by the |
taking off of those who have such !
weak human traits as to drink poison I
liquor. In its purest state, they say,
alcohol is a poison and would weak
11xy I
Is therefore of biological benefit |
that the weaklings who must use 1t
are not left here to perpetuate the
species.
On the other hand there are those |
who say with the free use of alcohol |
the race will benefit by the struggle
against 1t both morally and ply
sically. They point out that the
country wide aversion to the present
law is that 1t tends to
make moral weaklings We would
rather lose few weaklings byI
death than to stifle natural develop
ments of. morals.
Add to this the fact that the next
election will be fought
put on the whiskey question and you
realize how vital the question of
whiskey is in the world today and
this country particularly.
This question should be settled
one way or the other. If we are to
have prohibition by governmental
means. Uncle Sam should get be-
hind 1t, as he has for instance, the
and II necessary put
The whole army in service to stamp
II out. II wholehearted blow at II
cannot be made, then the govern
ment should get out of the enforce
ment' business and let the uplifters
manage It.
AS matters stand most OF the
money spent on enforcement Is be-
Ing wasted.
4. Horse racing is a business, and
that because II Is business" losses
Incurred in running business" of
this kind are deductible from in
come tax returns. Can you beat
that?
Come, let us reason this matter
out together. Some man. or wo-
man, becomes millionaire by
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