Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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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...
...beat may collect blood money to his heart's content. For when an executive assumes discretionary powers with regard to the enforcement of law, this discretion must in the last analysis be exercised by the police force. He brought out the fact that we must choose a strict enforcement of the law with an honest police force or a lax enforcement of the law with its attendant corruption and black-mail, and that when you give a mayor discretion as to whether he shall enforce the law or not, he practically becomes a despot. Moreover, a lax enforcement...
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...
Anthony was the third speaker for the affirmative. He first established the fact that the strict enforcement of the excise law can do much to aid the respect for and observance of all laws, and in doing so established the fact that Mayor Low has sufficient power to enforce the excise law and that Mr. Roosevelt, when police commissioner, succeeded in accomplishing a more difficult task and proved this statement by quotations from Mr. Roosevelt himself, Mr. Riis and by citing the resolution passed by the Liquor Dealers' Association at that time. He then cited some of the beneficial results...
...saloon, or all saloons to be open on Sunday? Shall he exercise discretion in regard to this law and not in regard to others? Non-enforcement means blackmail, because it means the exercise of discretion by patrolmen, and it means the disregard of law which breeds lynching and anarchy. Strict enforcement means the setting of a true example of respect for law, and making the people better citizens...