Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

At the same time, he was responsible for keeping the ranchers and cowboys who came into town in good order. Wasn't there an inevitable contradiction between the two? Was it the case, as some would say, that the sheriff understood that if he curbed the wilder instincts of the ranchers and cowboys, they would go elsewhere for their bootleg, etc.? And some would say that what happened as a result of this was that the wilder instincts of the financial institutions were given free rein with great cost to society. Was that an outcome of that legislation?