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...this it was the object of a hot verbal attack on the floor of Congress a week ago. Today's editorial discussed the statement of Prosecuting Attorney Buckner that prohibition cannot be substantially enforced. It said that "where as Americans used to flock to Europe as a tribute to a civilization which we have not attained, we now flood the continent with a disgraceful, thirsty crew that makes the name of America ridiculous in European eyes." The editorial said: "The majority of Americans subscribe to what masquerades under the name of Christianity. Why not make it compulsory and thus insure...
...labeled "Profits"), smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting...
...decision of Mr. Emory Buckner, the new United States District Attorney in the New York district, to "padlock" restaurants selling liquor involves more issues than that of prohibition enforcement. Aside from the question of constitutionality, the extension of injunctions to cover this special field may bring all injunctions into disrepute...
...true that the padlock method of enforcement, by which property is literally locked up under court injunction for a six-month period, gives the enforcement officers the most effective local weapon against liquor sellers. As Mr. Buckner points out, the normal trial-by-jury method would require ten years to clear the present calendars of the courts in New York city, but judges listening to injunctions could do it in less than half a year. The use of the injunction, however, is open to grave abuses. It is judge-made law, to be used when there is clearly no redress...
...their zeal to enforce the law, prohibition agents have already given severe jolts to the constitutional freedom from unwarranted search. Mr. Buckner's decision to employ the injunction, however praiseworthy as a showing of efficiency, comes between the people and their right to trial by jury