SEATTLE’S MAYOR TO ENFORCE DRY LAW.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 247, 18 January 1916, Page 10

SEATTLE’S MAYOR TO ENFORCE DRY LAW.

In an informal address to Christian Endeavourers recently, Mayor Hiram C. Gill declared that he is tired of hearing that the prohibition law cannot be enforced, and insisted that he will make it effective as long as he is 111 office. In these emphatic terms he gave assurance that he intended to foster respect for the law, and make it a stern reality : “I can, and will, make this prohibition law absolutely effective in Seattle the first two months after the first of the year —because I last that long. And my successor can enforce it if he wants to. “You young folks," continued the Mayor, “will live and work in a State where prohibition lias been established. The only thing 1 regret about this prohibition law is that it allows liquor to be shipped into this State — but it will not be long before an amendment prevents any liquor whatever from being handled here. “Upon you will devolve the task of keeping this State forever free from that which has been the curse of humanity since time began. I speak as one who knows. Day after day I sit in my office at the City Hall and hear citizens’ troubles, and ninety-nine of every one hundred are due to drink. 1 have learned to hate it. “1 want to say that 1 am tired of hearing men say to me every day: “Well, it can’t be enforced. What’s the use of having it, anyway?’ 1 can —and will make this law absolutely effective in Seattle while I am Mayor."