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the people who are generally opposed to its enactment, and country districts who are determined to make their fellow Watterson quoted here last month. Secretary Taftj citizens in the city better. The enactment of the law comes ment of the immediate community does not and will not through the country representatives, who form a majority where the sale of liquor can not be prohibited in fact, it is The Rule of "Not Too lation usually is the result of agitation by the people in the By the enactment of a drastic law and the failure to en- laws are to be observed or violated according to the will conditions surrounding the community, is incapable of en- follow with good grace the fine rhetoric of Henry says : force it, there is injected into the public mind the idea that far better to regulate and diminish the evil than to attempt hibited under penalties in localities where the public senti- Nothing is more foolish, nothing more utterly at variance to stamp it out. of those affected. I need not say how altogether pernicious with sound policy than to enact a law which, by reason of of the legislature, but the enforcement of the law is among tuary laws, by which the sale of intoxicating liquors is pro- 109 under such circumstances the law is a dead letter. In cases forcement. Such instances are sometimes presented by sump- sustain the enforcement of the law. In such cases the legis-

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