Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — SHIFTING THE BURDEN. [ARTICLE]

SHIFTING THE BURDEN.

Unjustly From the Local Officers Onto Governor Marshall. The petitioners have come to j Irown Point for names to send jGovernor Marshall, which asks him l*> close the Cedar Lake saloons on Sundays, and from reports they were ;vell signed before reaching here. Jlany believd the governor will act s prayed for in the petition.— Crown Point Star. Why don’t the local officeis of Lake county enforce the lawat Cedar Lake, if it is being violated? Why shift this burden from the shoulders of the. republican officers of Lake county, where it properly belongs, onto a democratic governor, where it does not belong? This thing of the people of a community running to- the governor with every little local matter instead of getting after the local* officials whom they are supposed to have elected to enforce the law and who at least, take an oath to do so, makes us tired. If the officers of'Lake county would say emphatically to the saloonkeepers, that they must obey the law or suffer the consequences, it would only take one or'two arrests to bring them to time. Let / the good people of Lake

county arouse themselves and .see to it that the law's are en- ! iorced by their own officers- or admit that they are incapable of governing themselves, humiliating as this latter course may be. Don’t bother the governor with every little thing that comes up. There are 92 Connies in Indiana, and the state executive has something else to do besides troubling himself with all the little vexations of each of these.