The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-06
MISREPRESENTING A CRITICAL
 SITUATION.

There is a tendency the part of many dry leaders to make people believe that indignation ever the terrific casualty list in connection Wlch Prohibition enforcement is simply manifestation of hostility to Prohibition the sentimentality of sob-sisters Some of them go so far as to declare that all the sympathy is for rum-runners and rum runner suspects who are killed when trying to es- cape capture. One dry paper goes so far to say: aThere are no tears shed in certain quarters which weep copiously over mortality among rum runners, when a Prohibition agent a member of the Coast Guard is killed"
 If all this is meant to dscredt the fight being made in Congress by Congressmen Lithicum of Maryland leader of the so-called wet bloc; James M Beck of Philadelphia, former Solicitor-General of the United States and word-famous international and corporation lawyer who added to his fame by acquiring the nickname, "Trust-buster" when representing the Government in antitrust tigation Col La Guardia, recently Republican nominee for Mayor of New York and a lot of other con- gressmen who established National reputations or if it is meant for large majority of the daily press of the United States including such papers as the Transcript, Globe Herald and other Boston publications, The World Times, Herald Tribune, and other New York papers, the Tribune, News Post Dispatch and other Chicago papers the Post Intelligencer Times and Star of Seattle, and likewise up and down. through the list of American cities, then it is wholly misrepresentative.
 The fight these statesmen and papers and thousands on thousands of leading citizens mak- ing is to have the bloody Eighteenth Amendment War come to end and peace re-established in the land Leading dry authorities are positively doing injustice to the American Bar Association, the Presidents of leading colleges and universities, to most of our great economists philosophers auth ors, educators business men, lawyers, physicians in tn he Of n cuding many ministers, priests and church of ficials They should meet the Prohibition question squarely
 If this class of citizens referred to by those who pretend to believe that all the sympathy is for outlaws who killed and none for officers of the law who lose their lives, then they not serving their country periodically and their nflu- ence, such it is is detrimental to law and order in the land
 It is true that English speaking people have never approved the of deadly weapons upon suspects of illegal acts of minor impor-crimes which have not involved murder, rape arson, treason burg larly, etc. But that is not the main point among those who stand for pacifism in our domestic affairs. The main point is that have a law that cannot be enforced except through warfare with deadly weapons that is costing hundreds oi lives of both private citizens and officers of the law It is a law that has not the unanimous or nearly so, support that is necessary to make il effective. So grave has become the situation that it is today ten years after Prohibition the most widely discussed issue in American government and the most seriously disputed WHO IS THERE THAT WILL NOT ADMIT THESE STATEMENTS AS FACTS? If they admitted WHO IS THERE WITH AN OPEN MIND THAT WILL NOT ADMIT THAT THE TIME HAS ARRIVED WHEN THE LAW OUGHT TO BE CHANGED?
 Prohibition has been tried in the balance il both Canada and the United States, and has beer found wanting Canada has discarded it. Th United States is continuing a bloody ove it. The situation is vitally critical It is no tint for misrepresentation.