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Grossman, who delivered the first rebuttal speech for Harvard, said that while it has been contended that Mr. Roosevelt strictly enforced the excise law when he was police commissioner, yet the Committee of Fifteen, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Col. Partridge, Mr. Jerome, and many other such authorities say that this law cannot be strictly enforced. This they would hardly have said if Mr. Roosevelt had strictly enforced the law, and the fact is that Mr. Roosevelt did not strictly enforce the law, -- all he did was to close the saloons, and as has been shown, there is a wide difference between...
...that they stood for the enforcement of the excise law as one of the general body of laws and that Mayor Low's duty of enforcing this law was mandatory, unless he had received by statute some especial discretionary power with regard to it. He then quoted from a speech of Daniel Webster in 1832, showing that an executive officer has no more license to construe the laws which he is to enforce than a private citizen whose only duty is to obey them, and further developed the specific evils which would result from a non-enforcement of this particular...
Grossman, in the second negative speech, contended that the strict enforcement of the excise law and the closing of the saloons brought about violations of the law in a co-ordinate form which are just as illegal and even more pernicious in their nature than those which it is attempted to suppress. But, on the other hand, Mayor Low's policy of judicious enforcement, recognizing that the law is not enforceable strictly, is made necessary by forces actually at work in New York life. The first of them is the increased temptation to blackmail which strict enforcement would hold...
...second rebuttal speech for Harvard was delivered by Reed. He said that the affirmative held that however disastrous the effects of enforcing this law would be, the executive should nevertheless blindly enforce it, in order to increase respect for law. But it hardly seems that the enforcement of a law which produces disastrous results would increase respect for law. The fact is that it has been shown impossible to enforce this law. If the people of New York could be brought to respect and obey the law the case would be entirely different, but now if you try to enforce...
...next rebuttal speech for Princeton was given by Blair. He said that it has been contended that we have confidence in the people to elect mayors capable of using discretion in the enforcement of the law. We must remember however, that it is not the mayor, but the patrolmen who will actually use the discretion in regard to the saloons. Further more, if you say that the mayor has discretion, what will be the limits of that discretion? Shall he allow one saloon, or all saloons to be open on Sunday? Shall he exercise discretion in regard to this...