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PROHIBITION(Continued From Pngo One) moral victory far the canso of enforce- lt;men tMr. Cool id gc has had relatively lit;!* to fa s' nlsout prohibition .since he look office. lie is reported, however, ns view-itigr t ho matter from I he viewpoint oflow a Bid order. An a in end rn out forbidding thn monufne* nre and sale of intoxicants Lf= a pnrl. of 1 lie ainsiiuition; i law has licv^u pnss-od providing- penalties for violation find there Is noQjir.r for ftn honest aitcl slricern public official to do hut enforce this law,Some of the feelins: expressed by tin 4,drys'T that tlus.v hove not been given cooperrition by the government is dm to the presence in liijrh ndmi 11 istratioo. quarters of pnm 011 need wcls.” The fitc-retary of the Treasury. Andrew W. M*b loit is cnlled n “wet.v having had lr*rge inlere.sts in n distillery before prohibition came. He Is much too busy vriih Ihe finance of the govemm^jnt to giro personal attention to (be work of one of IiU bureaus—that of internal revenue which inehules the prohibition unit—and while no one has ever proved thrtt he interfered with prohibit:m enforcement, the drys'1 have new? been satisfied nrul there is pending in Congress, a bill fn recognize the prohibition 11 nit hy removing- it from Us authority of the- commissioner of ia-rM'onup.
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Portsmouth Daily Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 17, 1925
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