Y. 3 .;. J. cr v 'H a r , o I 1 ~ r n ~: :· 1. t: .r. :· :: B H - 0 v Z ~· 2 X .L C 2 ·~ 0 STATE Volume 26, No. 2 WESTERVILLE, OHIO, FEBRUARY, 1925 $1.00 Per Year
A BILL TO PROHIBIT" JAKE" AND OTHER LIQUOR SUBSTITUTES 'THE Senate Bill No. 235 by Stuart of Fort Worth proposes to cut out the TEXAS RANGERS sale of "jake," Lyko, Force, Monticello Tonic and other so-called medi FROM THE ROGERS NEWS -1· cines that are really substitutes for liquor. Really the bill puts these all The Ranger force should be built up to the highest possihl~oint o,f Cfficiency. under the same catalogue as straight liquor. It should be sent by the governor into every county in the state where the lo~l officers The language of the bill proposes to cut out those alcoholic prepara fail or refuse to discharge their duties tovvard the faithful enforcemet1l: of the laws that come under their jurisdiction. To condone or coddle crime of anyJ: c}la,racter is tions that are capable of use as beverages. those sections of state In itself a crime, and our state should clean up every stronghold of lawlessnes§ and where smuggled liquor or moonshine is plentiful, these substitutes are not crime within its confines. A strong Ranger force-a powerful state police agency so popular. In those sections where these are scarce and among those 1vl~o is the only available instrumentality by which crime may be suppressed and law and cannot afford the price for "bonded" or moonshine, these substitutes be-, order made supreme in all sections of the state. T-he issue is ~imply this: Shall the come the greatest offenders. Sheriffs and prosecuting attorneys in those people as a whole respect the laws of the state or shall the ruling element in each sec tion and county be a "law unto themselves," stamping under foot every statute that sections are each eagerly demc:_nding .legislation that \vill bring relief. displeases them? But druggists who do not want to lose the profits from their sale will FROM THE DALLAS NEWS oppose the bill. Those who manufacture these drinks will spend money / \Vhen the Texas Rangers were instituted forty years ago, it 'vas in response to the liberally to defeat the bill. They will persuade some reputable fi.nns to discovery that local self-government is sometimes inadequate and at other times ineffi join them in this o'n the plea that their products also are in danger. cient. The Rangers were intended to be a distinctive constabulary without local \V e ·want to say with all the emphasis possible that no legitimate med attachments, and they were authorized to make arrests without an eye to political con- - icine is endangered by this bill. If any such is now being made, all f\1at siderations. The Rangers have served a useful purpose. They have been uniformly an intelligent, courageous·· and sober body of men. In innumerable cases they have. needs to be done is to put more medicine and less liquor in it so that it be one or two at a time, restored law and order and brought peace to a troubled com comes incapable of being used for beverage purposes, and its legitimate munity. sale can continue. A striking example is found in Penma. Older persons can readily re member when Peruna was the great substitute for liquor found in local op ABOOTLEGGER lS TO BE PARDONED tion teritory. Seyeral years ago the federal government forced the manu· · vVhen Governor N efi declared vacant the Board of Pardons a sigh of relief went facturers of this medicine to so change its formula as to make it incapab.le up from the hearts of the good citizens of Texas and a groan from the bootleggers. of being used for be,·erage pttrposes. Since then it is far superior as a med For four years Governor Neff carried out his policy for the officers to catcl'l. the boot leggers and put them in the penitentiary, he would see that they stayed· there. icine, but, of course, its sale has greatly decreased, as it is no longer used Governor :rv!iriam A. Fcrguso~1 has appointed \V. P. Sebastian of Brc~>kenridge as for beyerage purposes. chief of this committee, and Hon. J. N. Aldridge of Gilmer, a lawyer, as the other All such "medicines" as are affected by this bill may adjust their for member of the board. Mr. Sebastian has been one of the leaders of the wet forces -- s-i-ne-e-±9-H at -which time he led the fight in his section of the state again'!rt~1:u1~ c w:c!e mula as to ineet its requirements, but, of course, when held do·wn to le- ~ su prohibition. gitimate use, the sales will decrease. Opposition to this bill will, therefore, The first recommendation made for a pardon is that of ]. B. Hories, of San be from those who prepare "medicines" for beverage purposes. Angelo. He was arrested ncar that city on the 9th of March, 1923, on liquor cha;gl':::. Let not the reader be Jed to believe that his Senator or Representative At this time the officers seized a copper still, 47 gallons of syrup, two gallonc; of whisky, and about 200 gallons of mash. He received a t>vo-year sentence for hoot will "vote right" on this bill. If he .. wants these booze substitutes cut out, legging. write in unmistakable language to them to support these bills. The oppo It is said that there arc about 1,000 requests for pardons already on tap. \Vc. hope sition is already being heard from in f~ll force. that the pardon record of the new governor will not run high and that the percentage of moonshiners and bootleggers will not run large. It is rare that any of that gentry get into the clutches of the law serious enough to want a pardon. When we get thel1l CERTAIN DALLAS DR'S HOLDING ON TO THEIR LIQUOR MONEY into the penitentiary, we hope that we can keep them there till their terms are up. :Press reports state that about 100 physicians have signed a petition against Senate bill No. 106 by Price and \Voodward and that the petition is BECAUSE RANGERS ENJOINED, MEXICAN BANDITS being circulated among other physicians. This bill is the one that proposes to correct the abuses that have arisen CROSS OVER THE BORDER INTO TEXAS over the liquor prescriptions. \Ve do not believe that the bill will ade vVhen Judge R. B. Minor of San Antonio granted an injunction against Adjutant quately meet the situation, but it is designed to put so much "red tape" on General Barton and Governor Neff to prevent them from maintaining the Ranger the doctor and the druggist that they will be discouraged from writing the force in operation in Texas, :Mexican bandits and bootleggers were quick to see the prescription. As we said in the last issue of the Home and State, if the opportunity presented by the situation. . On January 29 Adjutant General :McGee, received a message from Ranger Captain thirsty ones were willing to put down the price the doctors would still con \ . L. \Vright at Laredo saying, "A well known Mexican bandit had been seen cross tinue to write prescriptions, and the druggists to fill them in spite of the ing into Texas near San Diego with 15 men and 20 pack mules. "reel tape." The present law requires a man to have ten physicians each Inasmuch as the injunction had not been issued against the new Adjutant General prescribing a bottle of liquor at a time in order that the man may be able Mark :McGee, he issued orders to Ranger Captain 'vV. L. vVright imtnel'tiately to take such action as was necessary to protect the border. The injunction was then extended to obtain a pint of liquor every day. This bill \Vottld allow a. man to main to include him also. tain his bottle a day and have only six physicians, but it would put a lot If the injunction against the Rangers s!wuld be maintained, Mexican handits will more clerical \vork on the physician. Of course he will charge handsomel¥ have their own way on the border. The present laws of Texas allows 75 Rangers to for it. be maintained. Not less than 150 are needed. It is reported that the present adminis It is safe to conclude that the majority of the physicians of Da11as who tration wants to cut the number down to 25. This will not be enough to protect from the depredations of criminals the border to say nothing of the interior, and Texas may sign this bill will come from the 250 physicians who are writing eyery look for a reign of crime. prescription that the government will permit them to write, a.nd charging $3.00 each for them. Th.is brings them in an average of $100.00 a monlh, Mr. Phil \Vright, Commissioner of Police of San Antonio, recently uttered some $1,200.00 a year and the holders of the permit will be slow to surrender wise vrords. \Ve quote him from the local press: that income ev9n thmigh it means to trample the constitution of the state "\Ve have no need for a Board of Pardons, and I am .sorry it has been and nation under their feet. re-established. There arc entirely too many suspended sentences, 11..1.roles and honor farms. If we are going to deal with criminals we must treat them V\r e prophesy that few doctors who maintain a high standard o£ pa firmly. \Vhat is the need of a police department working to rid cities of the triotism and honor will sign that bill. If possible Home and State \Vill criminal element, when suspended sentences, pardons and paroles turn them futnish the signatures to this petition. loose on society without proper punishment?" Page Tv;To February 14, 19~S
Another thing decided upon was to or TREMENS PNEUMONIA FAST STAYTON'S CROWD SWALLOW ganize the anti-prohibitionists in every HOLD ORATORICAL CONTESTS DISAPPEARING :congressional district in the country. ALL OTHER WET OUTFITS Wets 'v1th any money will understand Dr. Vv. A. Evans, health editor Five Races of Hawaiian Students in that it requires a large sun to put such of the Chicago Daily Tribune, in Contest on Fifth Anniversary Association Against Prohibition an organization in the field. Maybe the the Tribune of February 3 dis promoters have visions of that mythical of Prohibition Amendment Resolve That They cusses alcoholics and rneumonia. one million dollars. Of course the meet be Given Clear Field He says that the death rate from ing adopted resolutions. These are in Hawaii celebrated the fifth anniversary pneumonia is beginning to drop and part as follows: of prohibition by holding seven prohibi· that the greatest gain is in the al GAB-FEST· AND DINNER tion oratorical contests among students \Vhereas, the time has arrived for coholic pneumonias. "The combi of 16 high schools of the territory, from unification of. the forces opposed to nation of delirium tremens and Speakers Denounce Prohibition and whom were c'hosen 8 to represent their Volstcadism to the end that the fight pneumonia-ne?rly always fa tal in schools in a territorial contest held in Plan Another Nation-wide Drive for popular rights may be 'vaged with the old days-is not often seen greater power and effectiveness, and Honolulu on February 2. At this writ to Nullify Amendment now," says Dr. Evans. "~A...s prohi ing the names of the winners of the final \Vhereas, the evils of fanatical dry bition becomes more effecth'c with are not available. legislation are becoming daily more the passing of the years this form In the story which appeared in the apparent to the American people and This is a contest inaugurated by the of pneumonia sh~uld be wiped out newspapers a few weeks ago to the effect the demoralizing character of the Anti-Saloon League of Hawaii three eventually. that certain un-named wets had a million years ago and which has been successful prohibition laws more subversive of "A recently published study by dollars at their disposal to put into a respect for order and constituted au in a high degree in awakening interest Stillman of the Rockefelle~ Insti campaign to bring about the nullification thority, in the whole prohibition question not tute proves that acut':! alcoholism of the Eighteenth Amendment, rather This meeting of free American cit only among students but among the peo slighting reference was made to the Asso lays a foundation for pp.eumonia izens who know their rights as well and also decreases the chances for ple generally. At the territorial contest ciation Against the Prohibition Amend as their duties and who are deter recovery of those who have pneu four prizes are given, besides a medal to ment. According to the story these nul mined to assert those rights, brand monia." each contestant. The prizes are $100, lification leaders were looking for a "w~t as untrue the charge made by the $50, $25, and a steel guitar of koa wood "VVayne B. vVheeler" who could fix his dry propagandists that the enemies made and presented by prisoners in the from John Philip naturally brings a smile own salary. of prohibition are foes of law en Oahu penitentiary. because it recalls his famous cider and It ·was pointed out that there were a forcement, and we denounce prohibi At this contest this year students rep· wine party given in the hope that it score or more nullification organizations tion as a pharisaical interference by resenting five races competeJ, an English would result in the restoration of the in the field and it was admitted that per cranks, hypocrites and meddlers with girl, a Portugese girl, a Hawaiian-Chi· beer traffic. John's antics resuited in haps the Association Against the Prohi the rights of the whole people. nese girl, three Japanese boys, and a Chi· nothing more than reaffirmation by the bition Ameridment was the strongest of Among the speakers were Congress nese boy, all Hawaiian-born and young court that the Volstead law is valid and these-at least the noisiest-but it "\vas man John Philip Hill of hard cider fame, American citizens whom the Anti-Saloon in the bringing to the attention of the strongly intimated that this association Congressman Gallivan of Massachusetts, League is helping to train for better cit people that more is needed to 1 ring about headed by Captain Stayton was not get Congressman O'Connor of New York, izenship. Judges are chosen from among conviction in some parts of the country· ting anywhere. Captain Stayton, president of the wet so prominent citize11s and l:ave included than mere evidence of violation of the This story may or may not have ciety, and Elizabeth Marbury. The speak federal judges, district judges, leading law. aroused Stayton's ire. The announce ers told Congress and the administration educators and other prominent people. The only lesson in this whole fiasco for ment of the million dollar fund may or of the millions of dollars the government the drys is that it serves as a warning may not have looked good to him. At is losing in booze revenue and declared TEACH IT IN THE SCHOOLS 1 that the outlawed booze interests have all events he has been unusually noisy that prohibition is a failure and there is not yet given up the fight. There is a since that story appeared. more drunkenness and drinking now than Public School Superintendents of Penn.. determined effort being made to render First came the announcement that a ever before, and a lot of other bunk that sylvania Told to Teach Effects of the Eighteenth Amendment a scrap of committee of fifty prominent men aud wets have used since the Eighteent:¥1 Alcohol as Law of 1885 Provides paper and the situation calls for contin women including United States Senators, Amendment became a part of the Con ued activity on the part of every dry. Congressmen, playwrights, poets, scien stitution. Following the adoption of the The State Department of Public In• tists, business men, had been organized resolutions the speakers denounced all struction of Pennsylvania nas sent a no· At a conference at Manchester, En to put the Association Against the Pro drys as fanatics and hypocrites. It was tice to public school superintendents in gland, a few days ago of "young liber hibition Amendment on the map. A pe a regular "eat 'em alive" affair and the all parts of the state which reads in part: als" a resolution was passed urging the rusal of the names of those composing diners perhaps took themselves seriously In view of the reports coming to liberal party to place prohibition in the this committee revealed the fact that the although even this is doubted. the Department of Public Instruction forefront of its policies. Liberal leaders, committee was made up for the most part One of the most amusing incidents of that the law relating to the teach however, have so far confined their crit of the same men and women who have the affair, judging from the newspaper ing of physiology and hygiene with · icism of the liquor trade chiefly to its been in the forefront of this fight to re aecounts, \vas John Philip Hill's sugges a special feference to the effects of monopolistic features. The action at peal or modify the Volstead law from the tion that· if congressmen ':vere forced to alcoholic drinks, stimulants and nar Manchester, however, is indica~ive of a beginning. But they must have taken obey the prohibition law for one week cotics on the human system, is being definite movement among the rank and themselves seriously for o;1e of the speak the law would be repealed. This coming disregarded, the Department of pub file for straight-out prohibition. ers at the meeting, when this committee ... lic Instruction is calling the atten of fifty was announced, likened the com tion of county and district superin mittee to the patriots of '76. tendents and supervising principals \Vithin a week after the announcement to the importance of this law which of this committee a dinner was staged in Write or Wire Your Senators Urging That the was passed in 1885. Observance of New York under the auspices of the As this law is extremely important not sociation Against the Prohibition Amend only from the physical and mental Cramton Bill be Brought to aVote at Once \ me~t. It was reported that several hun side, but from the moral and citizen l dred earnest contenders for the restora ship side. '<; tion of the beer stein attended this dinner Opposition Knows Bill Will Pass if Put to a Vote and are Seeking, and enthusiasm ran high. Most of those Therefore, to Defeat it by Delay; Filibuster Threatened . HERE'S BIG DECREASE i attending came from the three states of New York, New Jersey and Maryland. A In the Number of Alcoholic Victims in number of New York congressmen were The opposition to the Crat:nlon bill know that it will pass the Boston present and according to the press, Senate if it comes to a vote. · They are seeking to defeat it, therefore, Nin.ety per cent reduction in alcoholic United States Senator \Vadsworth of by delaying the vote. This Congress expires :March 4. Only a few Yictims in the area covered by Morgan that state sent the diners a note of cheer :Memorial Cooperative Industies and days remain for the consideration of le-gislation. in which he said: "Judging from your Stores in Boston is reported by the super· description of the purposes of the dinner Rule 22 of the Senate provides that when 16 Senators sign a mo~ in ten dent. i i I think I can say I am in general sympa tion to close debate the motion shall be put for a vote the next day He says that when he went to the Me· I, thy 'vith them.'' one hour after the Senate meets. A two-thirds vote is required . to morial thirty years ago, more than 90 per Bear in mind that most of those \\·ho adopt. This is the method to break a filibuster. Every friend of dry cept of the work was with alcohol victims. attended this dinner are and have been Of the 1,000 persons who occupied the members of the Association Against the law enforcement is urged to write or wire his Senators to support Seavey Settlement, a rescue home for such a motion if necessary to prevent any filibuster against the Cram men, 90 per cent were alcoholic victims. Prohibition Amendment. Hence it is · , somewhat laughable that they adopted a ton bill. Prompt action is necessary in order to defeat dilatory tac Today not more than one-tenth are resolution "amid wild cheering" as pro tics of the opposition. A filibuster on the Cramton bill would delay brought there on account of liquor. Families that were helped by the relief liquor papers announced, "to consolidate the Senate calendar and a mighty protest should go up against all anti-prohibition activities in tHe Asso wh~le work conducted by the Morgan Memorial ciation Against the Prohibition Amend such tactics. before the days of prohibition no longer ment." It is in order now for the other ' \Vrite or wire your Senators at once urging that the bill be want help. Since prohibition \Vent into tl1irty or more nullification outQts now to brought to a vote. effect they haYe become not only self""~ get off the earth. supporting", but are helping others.
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DEATHS FROM A~COHOLISM ALIEN SMUGGLING GROWS DRUNKARD COULDN'T PRO PROGRAM OF ADVANCE DUCE THOSE CLASSICS ~ave Increased in 1924 Over 1922 in .· No Demand for Reapeal of Immi Some Places; Not Reached Rate of W. C. T. U. Announces a Program gration Laws "Because They Pre-Prohibition Days, However Edwin Markham, dean of Amer~ Which Will Result in Promoting ican poets, at the one hundred six~ Can't Be Enforced" Greater Regard for the Law Deaths from alcoholism have increased teenth anniversary of the birth of According to the annual report of Vv. Edgar Allen Poe which was ob IN. Husband, commissioner general of in some places in 1924 over 1922. Com paring the dry years, however, with for served by the representatives of Announcement is made at Evanston, immigration of the United States De the literary and artistic life of four Ill., headquarters of the national W. C. partment of Labor, the Niagara frontier mer wet years, there is a decided de crease. New York City, as usual, fur nations at the Poe Tabular Shrine T. U., that this year will witness a drive rum-runner has deserted his profession in the Metropolitan Museum, read for the enlistment of a million boys and and has taken up more lucrative work of nishes the statistics to show the "horrible effects of prohibition" and the "increased for the first time his newly revised girls in a new total abstinence crusade. alien smuggling. The report· says: poem on Poe, "Israfel." He pre deaths froni alcoholism." Four young women )lave already started A number of automobile owners ceded it with a defense of Poe's I Deaths from alcoholism in New York on speaking tours of the United States. and drivers of cars in Montreal and character. He said: According to Miss Anna Gordon, pres places adjacent thereto have gone City in 1918 totaled 252; in 1919 they He was no drunkard in the ordi ident of the world and national , were 176. The correct figure3 for the w. c. into the business of smuggling aliens nary sense. His physical condition later years are as follows: 1920, 98; 1921, T. U., the objectives of this campaign from Canadian points continguous to made him drink wine at times but 119; 1922, 226; 1923, 297. The discrep are: , the border or to small towns south he could never have written seven t ancy betv-;een these and the United States Total abstinence pledge signing like of the border where trains can be teen masterly pieces of literature Census Bureau figures is due to the fact that of the early crusade campaigns. boarded for the larger centers of in twenty-five years had he been a that deaths from wood alcohol and ethyl Education in social morality on the population, sums as high as $100 drunkard as his opponents are alcohol poisoning are not included in the basis of a single standard of morals. being paid for taking an alien into wont to contend. Census Bureau figures. The New York Education in loyal citizenship, includ the United States. ing the enlistment of first voters and for Officers Ol'l the boundary are al City figures include deaths from wood al IN THE LAND OF BEER eign-born citizens. most daily capturing large numbers cohol and ethyl alcohol poisoning. There Education of all citizens concerning of aliens who have either walked were 14 deaths from the former cause Dr. Dornblaser Sees More Drunks in the harmfulness of light wines and beer across the boundary or have been and 8 from the latter in 1922; deducting Berlin in a Day Than He Saw in an and of narcotics. taken in by professional smugglers, these from the 226 deaths reported by Entire Summer in U. S. Renewed emphasis upon temperance of whom there arc large numbers the city health report, gives 204 deaths, instruction in all schools. operating from the populous centers the number reported by the United Dr. T. F. Dornblaser, for many years in Canada, alien smuggling being so States Census Bureau. pastor of the Grace Evangelical Lutheran lucrative that many professional The general decrease in drinking in the SOUTH DAKOTA ADDS TEETH Church, Chicago, now in special service rum-runners have abandoned that nation favorably affected the rates for TO LAW for his denomination in Germany, is occupation and gone into the alien deaths from all causes as well as for al coholism. From 14.3 in 1917 the . regis- · quoted in the Chicago Herald-Examiner smuggling game. A penitentiary· sentence of six mo-nths tration area death rate fell to 12.9 in -of January 26 as saying: Ac~:ording to booze logic, the immi to two years for selling or giving intoxi 1919; 13.1 in 1920; 11.6 in 1921; 11.8 in Germany is soaked in beer. The gration laws have made criminals out of cating liquor to any person under twen 1922, and 12.3 in 1923. The decrease in bloated faces and red noses of the a number of people who have entered ty-one years of age in South Dakota, is this death rate from the average of the men bear · the marks of the beast. into the business of smuggling aliens provided in a bill which has unanimously license years is equivalent to the saving Every other car in the rail way trains into this country. The laws are being passed one branch of the state Legisla of a million lives in the past six years. is a smoker and at every station there violated and therefore they ought to be ture. The court is allowed the discretion The registration area death rate for are ample 'supplies of liquor to satis repealed. Our gates ought to be thro·wn of adding a fine up to $2,000 to the sen deaths from alcoholism was 5.2 in 1917, fy the thirsty passengers. open to all comers. It costs too much tence. the typical wet year. It was 2.6 in 1922 Dr. Dornblascr states that when he money anyway to enforce this law and it The Senate of South Dakota has and 3.2 in 1923. The total number of {vas in the United States last summer is getting harder and harder to enforce passed a bill providing a maximum pen such deaths in 1923 was 4,148 only. traveling by auto all over the country he ,he<:ause there are more people desiring alty of one year in jail and a fine of $50 All alcohol is indeed ''The Drink of "saw less drunkenness and drinking than to enter this. country than ever before. to $300 for any person convicted of driv Death,'' but licensed liquor had a higher I can sec in a s.ingle day in Berlin.'' Over 6,000 Deported Last Year ing an automobile while under the influ death list than bootleg liquor for the Uncle Sam, however, will not be gov~ ence of liquor. · simple reason that many more then drank LOW MORTALITY RECORD erncd by this kind of logic. On the con intoxicants than now. The small minor trary he will redouble his efforts to en ity who now drink gamble with death. According to a report of the Metro WILL TARRY IN ATLANTA force the immigration laws and he has More of them die in proportion to those politan Life Insurance Company the mor been pretty active in that work during who formerly indulged their alcoholic tality among its fifteen million industrial John Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, accused the past year as the following figures will thirst, but the sum total is 11ot as large. policy holders for the month of N ovem~ of providing liquor for the Thanksgi\,ing show. In the fiscal year ended June 30, ber, 1924, was 7.8 per 1,000. This is the · party attended by high school pupils, en 6,409 aliens were arrested and deported lowest record ever made in November in tered a plea of guilty the other day to a EXPERT TESTIMONY THIS from the United States, this figure being this industrial classificatiot1, and only charge of conspiracy to violate the pro far in excess of any previous year. Alien once during the year has it been less, the l)ibition law and maintaining a nuisance, Formerly 90 Per Cent. Seavey Settlement seamen deserting ships in American ports month of August going as low as 7.3, but denied he was involved in the school Occupants Booze Victims; Now in the last fiscal year amounted to 34,- which is the record in figures reached in dance case. Judge Killits sentenced him Not More Than One-tenth 679, compared with an annual average of the 14 years these statistics have been to 21 months in Atlanta and fined hitV. 8,573 during the 12 years of 1911 to 1922. compiled. $500. Despite this increase, however, the situ A 90 per cent. reduction in alcoholic ation seems to be well in hand along the victims in the area covered by Morgan "'·· Canadian border, according to J. E. Tol Memorial cooperative industries and man, new assistant commissioner ·of im stores in Boston is reported by the su 1925 YEAR BOOK READY migration. Mr. Tolman says: "There perintendent. He says that when he are ttlnv'ards of 500 immigration patrol went to the Memorial thirty years ago The Anti-Saloon League Year Book for 1925 is now ready for distribution. inspectors divided between the Canadian more than 90 per cent. of the workers Special features included in this volume are:- and Mexican borders and the cooperation were alcohol yiclims. Of . th thousand "~cc.?f!lplishn~ents in Prohibition Enforcement from June 11, 1921, to Sept. received from Canadian officials render.s persons who occupied the Seavey Settle 11_., 19-4, oy 1fa_Jor R A. Haynes, Federal Prohibition Cotnmissioncr-a dc tauecl report of hts v;ork for the period. possible the apprehension daily of many ment, a rescue home for men, 90 per cent. A roster of the Slate and National Anti-Saloon League departments aliens." were alcohol victims. Today not more brought down to January 1st, 1925. · ' ' There is practically no smuggling of than one-tenth arc brought there on ac Government statistics showi1~g the an_10unt of wine, w1Jisky, brandy, dena orientals over the Canadian border, Mr. cotmt of liquor. Families that were t~B eel alcohol,, etc., produced dunng the hscal year 1924, storage and distribu twu of such !tquors, taxes collected, fines and penalties imposed etc. Tolman said, "due to the fact that the helped by the relief work conducted by (\. ten-year record of arrests in 300 principal cities of the U~1ited States in immigration laws of Canada regarding tpe Morgan 11emorial before the days of clucltng arre?ts for all cause~, arrests for intoxication, the average for the' wet this class of immigrants are as re s tric~ prohibition no longer want help. Since and dry pe_nc.ds, etc., rcvealtng the fact that arrests for intoxication have de tive as those of the United States." prohibition went into effect they have be cre~secl whtlc- arrests for all causes ha,·e increased in the same cities during the p~;· wd from 1913 to 1923 inclusive. ' And this suggests a remedy for Canadian come not only self-supporting but are ''Into. . x~c:1 . t', 1~n 111• N ew. "'\1.T or'1 c·tty "-another invaluable detailed survey of border rum smuggling. \Vhen Canada helping others. comlttt?ns _lll New York Ctty as affected hy prohibition. follows the example of the United States Sctenttfi~ ~1 .hases of the Alcohol Problem, by Miss Stoddard, telling facts and becomes a prohibition country the NO LAW NEEDED THEN for the proh~b1t10n worker or speaker. . A summc.ry of legislative progress toward National Prohibition in the Na border rum smuggling problem will be twnal C~mgress, from the Anti-Canteen law in 1901 to the present time. seltlcd. vVhen England and the leading Dr. Paul Kammerer, a fani.ous scien A h!story of temperance legislation in each of the several states. countries of continental Europe become t1st from the University of Vienna, in a A chrec~ c ry of the Sixty-Ninth Congress, and a roster of all national tem dry our Atlantic coast smuggling trou lecture under the auspices of the Chicago peran~e hodtes an~ church temperance committees in the United Slates. 2~~ pages; pnce, 75 cents per copy, in paper· $1.15 per copy in cloth. Send ble~ \\ill have come to an end. \Vomcn's Club said, "If Americans orders to ' ' \Vhy not? would conscientiously obey their prohi As a matter of self-protection the drys bition law in a few generations there THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING COMPANY of this country should be interested in \vould be no need for it. Their descend WESTERVILLE, OHIO yworld-wide prohibition. ants would lose the taste for alcohol.'' February 14, 1925 rJge Four HOME AND STATE 1-IOME AND STATE 11or case in any court in the United States. :As in ,t.he Legal Right and Good Will fa1;1ous Gary, Ind., case, certain public officials are 111~ '
• February 14, 1925 HOME AND STATE
PARTY PLEDGES IN NEW YORK P~OPOSES REF~RENDUM SCORES JURORS' LENIENCY FIRM FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Republican Party Dominated in N. New York Senator Would . Have His In the case of Montana vs. Allan State Register a Useless. Vote on Arkansas Governor Gives Pledge to Y. by Wadsworth Shows Signs of Dodge, charged with violation of the liq Repeal of Federal Dry Act. uor law, tried before Judge H. J. Miller Citizens Committee to Back Breaking Faith with. People of Big Timber, the jury found the defen Up the Courts State Senator Karle of New York a dant guilty and fixed the maximum pen Those dry Republicans of New York p_rotege of United States Senator \Va~ls alty, $250, and six months in jail. The A dckrmined stand for law enforce state who, in the last election because \\ orth, has proposed a state-wide refer jury recommended that the judge remit ment i~1 all its phases was expressed Jan they belie~ed in the Republican party endum on prohibition. He wants the the jail sentence upon payment of the uary 27 by Governor Terral of Arkan platform and the pledges of the party for voters to pass on the question, "Shall fine. This recommendation aroused the sas to a special committee of 33 represen a state enforcement law, voted for James the Volstead Act be repealed?" . ire of J uC.:ge Miller who took occasion to tative citizens and public officials of the W. Wadsworth for United States Sena- score the jurors for their leniency in Lieutenant Governo, LO\\'n1an is dry state who were appointed by J. B . . . tor, must now realize that it is the man such cases, and he made it plain to the and U.eclares that tl-.e referendum pro \Vithee, general secretary of the Y. M. and not the party which must receive defendant that the only thing that saved posed is useless. He told the sponsors C. A. of Arkansas, and Paul Kemper, su their first consideration in a fight such as him from t 1e jail penalty was the recom for this scheme: "After you have taken perintendent of the Arkansas Anti-Sa the Anti-Saloon League is waging. The mendation of the jury. a rcferen<~um the iedcral law would still loon League, upon a request of the Citi following news article which appeared in be on the books and that is literally true zens Committee of a Thousand. This the New Y ark American of January 29 irrespective of what the result of the vote LIQUOR PIRATE KILLED Committee of a Thousand is headed by offers proof enough of this fact. The ar would be. New York could go unani Judge Elbert H. Gary. ticle reads in part: The action in securing statements of mously for repeal of the Volstead law In one of the most daring breaks for James \V. vVadsworth. jr., is con officials' declarations on law enforcement but that wouldn't repeal the law." liberty in the history of San Francisco, ducting his campaign for nomination was taken in the form of resolutions Of course the whole thing is wet prop Ariel (Happy) Eggers, liquor pirate, was to the United States Senate as a wet. adopted by the Citizens Committee of a aganda. The legislature is controlled by killed. His brother, Milo, also prisoner, Despite the law enforcement plank Thousand following the committee's. in Republi.:ans in both branches and the escaped, and Deputy Marshal John Don ·ritten by him into the last Repub terview with President Coolidge early in Republican party is pledged to. the en nelly was injured seriously when an lican state platform, the Senator January. Similar committees are visiting actment of a state enforcement code, but ammonia bomb exploded. in his face in seeks to rally advocates of the repeal chief executives of every state for the unfortunately the Republican party in the federal building January 28. Milo or modification of the Volstead Act. purpose of securing definite statemen.ts New York is dominated by 'LTnited Eggers and two confederates, one of This developed after conferences on the question of law and order. States Senator \Vadsworth who is drip whom fired the shots that killed Ariel, with James K. Morris and other Re Governor Terral'~ response to the res ping wet. Unless the voters are able to escaped in a waiting automobile. Don· publicans at the state headquarters olution and presentation speech by for stage a protest of sufficient size to con nelly may lose his sight. here yesterday. mer Attorney General E. S. Utley to the Yince party leaders that it Ylould be fatal Senator \Vadswort!t. will espouse special committee is as follows: to tl)e Republican party of New Y ark the cause of the Association Against Senate Bill 38, by Mr. Bender, limiting Gentlemen of the Committee: I state to break faith with the people, it is the Eighteenth Amendment which the jurisdiction of justices and mayors, is appreciate more than words can tell not likely that anything will be done by a good bill to defeat. It is detrimental to your splendid resolutions and the he has just joined as a member of its this legislature to injure seriously the law enforcement. kind words o£ your chairman and as committee of Fifty. , bootleggers. sure you that I am going to give the He will continue to oppose mak -====-=-=.-.=-- :::- -~---- - ing the Jenks prohibition enforcement best of my young manhood toward act a Republican party measure at I ' SAVINGS AND SALVATION VERSUS LIQUID DAMNATION seeing that bootlegging becomes a Albany and will refuse to submit thing of the past. I am going to any recommendations to the Treas back up the courts. I think the cir cuit judges of the state are all true ury Department for the appointment • of federal dry agents. and honorable men and I am going \:Vhen Chairman Koenig was asked to see that their judgments are up , to, comment upon Senatm= Wads held. Bootlegging, if unche.~ked, worth's avowed alliance with the foes will not only ruin our citizenship, but also our business. I have given the of prohibition he replied: penitentiary superintendent orders to ''Did you ever hear that the Sena build new stockades and as fast as tor advocated prohibition? Of the courts can convict bootleggers I course we all favor enforcement of am going to put them in these stock law but we can amend the statutes if ades and keep them there until we the people say so." have rid the state of its bootleggers. President Nicholas Murray Butler I appreciate this assurance of the cit of Columbia University chuckled as izenship of this state and you may he said: , carry back to your people my word "I guess I beat vVadswc rth to it that I am going to do everything a bit. Ultimately I believe vvc shall . that I can to meet all their expecta all be together for the re?eal of the tions of me and see that the CO!trts Volstead Act. I stand pat on that are upheld and the law is enforced. proposition. \V c arc getting con The committee adopted the following verts daily." resolutions: The Anti~Saloon League of New York We hereby express our appreciation issued the following statement by way of for and commendation of our 0\\'11 Gov comment on the above news item: ernor Tom ]. Terral for his own clean "The situation was feared, foreseen and life and outstanding example in practic predicted by the Anti-Saloon L eague ing in his own private life the sobriety \\'hen it held off anu· refused indorsement .and law observance that he demands for of the Republican candidate for Goverhor others; also for the true ring of his in last fall until it had been given sufficient augural message in favor of law en assurance that the 1.- arty meant business forcement and for the strengthening of as far as the passage of a state enforce~ our laws including all phases of the pro ment code to take the place of the l~e hibition law and the law against carry pealed Mullan-Gage law was concerned. ing weapons, and assure him that it 'is There were drys who criticized and our opinion that the people of Arkansas blamed the League for ·what was consid approve both his example and the meas ered over-caution in the campaign. They ure he advocates in thi:-; resp~>ct. must now see the justiftcation of the course for by it it has placed the law en The building shown in the picture above is directly across the street from the STATE LICENSE LAW VALID forcement eiemeut in the sound and ten Galesburg, Ill., office of the Anti-Saloon League. It was formerly owned by the Schlitz able position of being able to demand the Brewing Company whose familiar trade mark can be discerned in the stone work in A state law requiring a license for the fuliiliment of pledges. The next move is the gable of the building. The room on the second floor is now used by the Salvation sale of i11tox:icating liquor is valid and up to the voters. They can and arc reg Army. On the ground a bank is now giving 50 per cent interest on savings instead can be enforced notwithstanding the fed istering their protest. The hearing on of the headaches and misery handed to depositors over the bar in the old days when a eral prohibition amendment, accord!ng to the Jenks-\Valcs dry law enforcement bill saloon occupied the place. a ruling of the United States Supreme Albany will give them an opportunity ;~t Nex t door a five-and-ten-cent store is giving drygood;; for many nicklcs and dimes Court on February 2 in a case from N cw to do so in the open. This hearing will 1hat formerly were wasted on wet goods. In front two flivver .. arc seen as a reminder Jersey. The conviction in the lower he held in the Capital Building at Al that thousancis of workmen are now buying gas insteacl of booze. courts of Anthony Colora, charge
umns of that paper a statement concern WHAT THE CURRENT MAGAZINES ARE SAYING ABOUT ing the ample provisions which the law PEORIA DISTILLERIES PROSPER specifically makes for obtaining alcoholic PROHIBITION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT liquors for medicit1al, mechanical, sacra~ But They Are Now Producing (Reviewed by Emma L. Transeau) mental and other lawful purposes. Grain Food Products Employing More Men Than Formerly (Harpers Magazine, February. 1925) PROHIBITION INCREASING years, but within a few days a boy or girl WHERE ARE THE RAKES OF CRIME may become an addict beyond recall. Distilleries located in central Illionis YESTERYEAR? are among the largest in the world. These The result of Mr. Corrandini's survey By Philip Curtiss distilleries one by one have been adapted (The ' Independent, January 24, 1925; The character whose loss the writer of crime under prohibition in 300 cities to the manufacture of food and various RUM ROW-FINIS mourns is the old-time drinker whom he is given, followed by newspaper com products of grain since the advent of By Samuel Taylor Moore describes as: ment, favorable and unfavorable. The In prohibitio~, says the Christian Science dianapolis News sees in these statistics The finis will come because "the Coast The tall, silent, brooding type of hero Monitor. As result of this change the confirmation of \:Vayne B. Wheeler's es Guard Wields the Mop," in the opinion whose only fault was a secret love for distilleries at present are employing more of Mr. Moore. He predicts that the John Barleycorn Pale, obsolete timate of the increased n·1mber of inves men with a much larger payroll than tors since prohibition. The Houston campaign now getting under way will be hero with your tall, lean, slightly tragic during the pre-prohibition 'days. Predic the doom of Rum Row: figure, your impeccable manne.rs, your Chronicle contrasts these statistics with tions that the suspension of the great dis statements by the enemies of prohibition, That means the closing of the cheapest perfect breeding, and' your fatal fondness tilleries would greatly handicap the fu for Scotch! "who never take time to analyze statis route for foreign contraband liquor into ture growth of industrial central Illinois tics.'' the most populous part of the U nit~d Mr. Curtiss would like to use him as have proved untrue. The transformation But the Brooklyn Eagle fi.nds no joy in States. Presumably, costs of imported the hero of a modern novel calling him, has been slow but sure. Where in the liquors must then rise to a point where on account of the fine old family he rep a "42.3 per cent" decrease in arrests for past trainloads of whisky Yrere shipped drunkenness because- indulgence is possible only on a strictly resented, "Walton Chalmers.'' But he is to all states of the Union and countries luxury basis by a comparatively small now worthless as a hero, because: The total ratio of arrests from all of the globe, there are now moving out part of the population. Of course, illicit Instead of being silently outlawed, causes to the population being un even greater trainloads of foodstuffs, domestic manufacture may increase under whispered about, and quietly edged out of commercial alcohol, cracked corn and sol - changed, it follows that arrests for other the spur of high price for foreign liquor, decent society he would be the most pop and more serious crimes have increased. vents. but poor quality and danger to the health ular man in town. Or rather, he would This is in line with statements made The Atlas distillery of the Kentucky of consumers are limiting factors. When be a complete nonentity. With all the from time to time by many eminent au Alcohol Corporation, one "f the largest prohibition becomes a fact to this extent, flappers, all the college boys, and all the thorities. Instead of "running in" people of the idle plants for several years which the credit will belong primarily to the young matrons of literature standing toe "slightly under the weather'' to keep recently reopened, daily grinds 9,000 bu United States Coast Guard. to toe and going him drink for drink, he them safe until they sober up, the offi shels of corn and 1,500 bushels of malt. would be the most conventional and least cers of the law are occupied in arresting The spirit in which the Coast Guard It is under strict govern~ent supervi dramatic character in the story. I can bandits, murderers and other reckless faces this work is no· small factor in the sion and every move is watched by feder visualize right now a scene in chapter law-breakers. And the hal£ of them are prediction: al storekeeper guagers. Corn is ground eight in which Betty (the heroine) would never rounded up. Orders are orders. Prohibition is a into meal and starch, and oil is obtained find Walton standing as usual in a far It is clear that prohibition has increas~ part of the Constitution, and the Coast which forms an important by-product in corner of the country club, pale, silent ed the volume of crime rather than di Guard intends to make good its part of the manufacture of alcohol. The Atlas and reserved, and would hail him with minished it. the assignment . . . Putting Rum Row distillery which is but one of the group, out of business is merely an additional honest anxiety, "What's the matter, Old Apparently the Eagle classes traffic of alone averages 18 cars of raw material, duty in the wide range• of an organization Horse? Aren't you drinking this even fenses with the "more serious crimes" largely corn, each day, while it ships out with a proud tradition running back to ing?" since these are the ones that have con nine cars of finished products every 24 the creation of the Revenue Cutter Ser And yet the author confesses that in hours. tributed most to keeping a high total. vice in 1790. Technically, there is no real life he ha5 never found the actual Also the Eagle's recollection of what the such organization as the "Dry Navy!' Walton. "There were no members of police used to do about people "slightly MAGNUS CHARGES EXTORTION Neither are there such craft as rum run my own clubs who were both sots and under the weather" differs from the gen ners in the lexicon of the Coast Guard. geniuses. The aristocrats were not erally reported practice of the pol:ce be Senator Johnson of Minnesota Files They are smugglers. There is no such drunkards and the drunkards were fore prohibition. Contest Petition With Sen- thing as a degree of guilt in smuggling. bores.'' ate Committee It is all tlie same: the article of contra Neither does he find in real life today (Current History, February, 1925) - band is of no importance. the "Roman orgies" which our modern THE MENACE OF THE DRUG novelists picture. He has searched for Charges alleging extortion of upwards of $70,00Q from Minnesota bootleggers ADDICT ,. .. (Literary Digest, Jan. 24, 1925) them in vain. The question left in the rea-der's mind for use in the senatorial campaign of By Frederic A. Wallis KEEP SOBER WITH COOLIDGE is whether the modern novelist will suc Representative Thomas D. Shall are One of :rvir. Mencken's writers in the Most of the newspapers cited have not ceed in stamping his vulgar characters made in a petition of contest filed Febru February American' Mercury says that taken kindly to the dominant theme re upon real life, or whether he will find in ary 2 in the Senate by his defeated oppo the cause of our present drug addiction is ported from the "dry Breakfast" with the real life characters which he can idealize nent, Senator Magnus Johnson, Farmer the Harrison Narcotic Law. Mr. Wallis' President. The St. Louis Dispatch is until they lift the real life of today to Labor. memory goes further back. At least credited with saying: greater nobility. Senator Johnson alleges that the "ex twenty years ago he saw "the menacing It is not law enforcement with which tortion" was with the "knowledge and evil of the narcotic drug traffic." Now, the committee is concerned. It is the en consent" of Mr. Shall and that the money as Commissioner of Correction, New forcement of the prohibition law. The CITIZENS' RESPONSIBILITY was used in the campaign. He further York City, and previously as United spectacle of men in high office and pow (Julius Rosenwald puts "Crime alleges that a "dummy'' judge 'vas in States Commissioner of Immigration, he erful station, pleading with the people to stalled in the Shall campaign headquar has had wide opportunity to study both obey the law, meaning always the prohi Wave'' Responsibility upon Better Class Citizens) ters in Minneapolis to give credence to drug addiction and alcohol addiction, and bition law, is of itself a condemnation of promises of "protection" and "immun he makes interesting comparisons, some, that law. ity" to the alleged bootleggers from as one may suppose, quite out of har The Washington Post would have The Chicago Tribune in· a St. Louis whom he charges money was obtained. mony with the remark of the writer first Congress and "all citizens" become ani dispatch of January 21 quotes Julius mentioned. mated interrogation points, going about, Rosenwald, chairman of the board of A. J. DAVIS RE-ELECTED There are people who are under the im pencil in hand, to ascertain "the will of Sears, Roebuck and Company of Chicago, pression that there is some relation be the people" before enacting such laws as in an address before the Chamber of State Board of Anti-Saloon League of tween drug addiction and prohibition. their intelligence and knowledge of con Commerce of that city, as sJ.ying: New York Re-elects Mr. Davis to This, of course, is not true. William ditions direct. We so-called better citizens are in State Superintendency McAdoo, Chief Justice of the New York In the meantime, the Post does what a large measure responsible for the The board of directors of the Anti-Sa Municipal Courts, stated to me that he it can to create disapproval of the law by present crime waves in many cities. loon League of New Y ark at its meeting had been unable to trace any connection making such false charges as the follow We want to break the la,vs which we on January 26 announced through its sec between the two things. The thousands ing: think are wrcmg. Our class encour retary, Rev. F. L. Fagley, D.D., the re of drug addicts brought before his It is an outrage upon public right and ages the bootleggers. Our country election of Arthur }. Davis as state su courts, men who have been drug addicts common sense to attempt to prevent a can not exist unless the laws are en perintendent by an unanimous vote. for years, never touched intoxicating physician . from . prescribing . medicinal forced and if the best element in the In accordance with the Constitution of drinks. The craving for narcotic drugs liquor. This invasion of the people's country will not help theirs will be the Anti-Saloon League of New York and the thirst for intoxicating drinks rights, under color of law, inevitably the major loss. Mr. Davis was nominated for reelection have nothing in common, except that brings about opposition to the prohibi by Dr. F. Scott McBride, general super both lead to ruin. Nor is there any com tion law. Law-abiding men have no scru A dozen houseboats on the Mississippi intendent of the Anti-Saloon League of • parison of the destroying and deadening ples in violating the laws and regulations river and a score of huts ·were burned, America. In reelecting Mr. Davis the power of the two evils. A small amount that would prevent them from obtaining seven men arrested, thousands of dollars board declared that his selection a year of alcohol is fatal to one person, while liquor for medicinal or mechanical or worth of sugar and cornmeal captured, ago had proved providential, that he had five ounces of morphine would probably other lawful use. and five large stills junked on January 8 carried fonvarcl the v,rork of reestablish kill 1,500 people. A young man becomes Someone ought to kidnap the editor of in a series of liquor raids in Memphis, ing the League on a sound basis in a ~ confirmed drunkard in from one to ten. the Post long enough to get into the col- :T~nn. .courageous and faithful fashion. Page Eight HOME AND STATE ~~~~======- - satisfactory results could ha•.re been obtained by a bill that would have had fewer TO INCREASE THE SALARIES OF THE STATE OFFICERS objections to it on the part of the physicians. But rather than to confuse the situa. Senator Joe M. Moore has introduced a resolution into the Legislature to submit tion at Austin by having introduced a rival hill we want to ask the friends of tem• an al::!endment to the constitution providing for increased salaries to certain state offi perance over the state to hack up Senate Bill No. 106, by Senators Price and \Vood· cers. His resolution proposes to pay the governor $10,000 per year. It is uow $4,000. ward. lt proposes to pay the attorney general a fixed salary of $7,500 a year. At present \Ve note in the press that physicians of Dallas are signing a petition to the legis .. the salary and fees combined amounts to only $-1-,00Q l!er year. These are not extrav- lature against the passage of this bill. There arc about 250 physicians in Dallas who agant salaries for th~ caliber of men we need to fill these offices. · hold permits to write liquor prescriptions and most of them write every prescription His resolution proposes to fix the salary of the state comptroller of public accounts, that the government will allow. \\r c feel sure that the signers of the petition being . the state treasurer, and the commissioner of the general land office at $6,000 a year. circulated will be largely, if not wholly, from the list of permit holders, and we feel 'JVney now receive $2,500 a year. equally sure that few, if any, physicians who do not now \vrite prescriptions will He also proposes to raise the salary of the secretary of state to $6,000 a year. That allow their names to the petition. \V e think, therefore, it would be very illuminating officer now received $2,000. It strikes us that $6,000 is rather a large salary for one for the physicians who now write prescriptions, and the names of the physicians who to fill an office having the function that th.e secretary of state has. Four tho~tsancl dol sign this petition to be given to the press, ancl .we hope this will be done. The public lars would be sufficient. will not exp'ect less of a 'doctor than to sign a petition against this bill, if he himself He proposes to put the compensation of senators and representatives at $15 per is getting about one hundred dollars a month from the privilege of writing prescrip day for the regular sessions, not to exceed 120 days, and $7.50 a clay for the remainder tions. The druggists also who are making money out of filling prescriptions will be of the regular session. Also he proposes $15 a clay for special sessions. At present eager to sign a petition against it. Our understanding is that if a druggist goes the the compensation to these offices is $5 a day for the first 60 days of a regular session, full length in filling these prescriptions he can make just about as much money as and $2 per day afterwards, or $5 a day for the first 30 days of a special session, and $2 the saloons were able to clear in the "good old days." . per day aftenvarcls. The compensation to be paid to the representatives thus proposed is not too inuch, and the time limit for-the regular session at 120 days is not too much. It strikes us, THE LEGISLATURE ASKED TO ASSIST IN CALLING however, that there should be larger pay for the senators than to representatives. Recently one of the members of the House told the writer that his regular income THE RANGERS OFF THE BOOTLEGGERS at home is $20 per day, and as a representative of the people he can only draw $5 per On January 2i, Representative "\Villiamson of Bexar county introduced a bill day, and has to pay his expenses out of that. During the year 1923, while serving into the legislature concerning which we quote from the press reports as follows: through two or three sessions of the legislature his income amounted to only $4,500. "The \Villiamson bill seeks to have it written into the law that no Rangers shall he During the year 1924 there was 110 ~ession ~f the legislature and his income was $6,800. sent into any county or any incot·porated city or town except when asked for by the Thn.s he lost $2,300 and received $5 a day £or his services. vVe can not expect good local officers. When sent on such request they are to be under the direction of, and men to offer for office on that compensation. There are at present 49 members of the suborclitiate to, the authority of the sheriff in the county or the chief of police in the House who had no opponents in the race. In the senate there are six who had no city or town. opponents. Why these men had no opponents is very evident. Men can not afford . "If the governor should at any time find it desirable as .a matter · of policy to send to leave their business and spend four to six months in Austin at heavy expense for Rangers to the border, they may be so moved as has been the case heretofore. $5 per day. For a large per cent of those elected to be without opponents is not a "Williamson feels confident such a measure will receive a majority in both wholesome situation. Houses." This amendment proposing to raise salaries of these officers should receive the The reader will readily see that the purpose of this bill is to call the Rangers off ap:proYal of the legislature and should carry at a general election. from their chase of bootleggers. If the sheriff of any county can't enforce the law he will take it as a reflection on his ability if they call the Rangers. If he docs not want to enforce the la·w, the Rangers are the last people on earth that he wants to PATRONS OF BOOTLEGGERS NOT WANTED sec, and, of course. will not invite them. · In either case this bill would serve as a pro tection to the boodeggers and corrupt officers. BY COLORADO FUEL &IRON COMPANY The author of the blll is presumed to be representing Bexar county. Probably This company mails its employes along \vith their pay check the following h_e docs. If our information is correct there has never been a bootlegger convicted in that county. warning: "This Company is going to get along in the future without the services of BOOT- During the sixteen months the Rangers have been in San Antonio according to a report made to Go.,;crnor Neff just before his · retirement from office, by Captain LEGGERS or their customers. B. C. Balthvin, who 11acl charge of the Ranger force ·in San Antonio, the Rang,ers had "\Ve cla~s as BOOTLEGGERS all who manufacture, sell or distribute intoxi cants either personally or through agents or members of their o1vn families. made more than 1,600 arrests, not all confined to that county, but generaUy over the "Such persons \vill be discharged upon evidence satisfactory to the management southwest, hut these arrests were for liquor law violations, bank robbery, murder and burglary cases. · without waiting for conviction from the courts. "Employes who are customers of bootleggers or who visit BOOTLEGGERS' They had seized 320 -stills, 6,800 gallons of mash, and 5,400 gallons of whisky, houses or places of business will be suspended for the first offense and discharged for besides large quantities of beer. Here lies the grounds to the real objection to the Rangers. It interferes with the o.perations of the booleggers. Since the Rangers continuations of the offense." This applies in their coal mines, iron mines, lime quarries, and kilns, offices and were forced to cease operations in San Antonio even boys from 11 t~ 14 years of age all places of work, or business. It is a good example to be followed by Iexas ftrms ha\·e been found bootlegging. The people of Texas had just as well see the real issues in this Ranger contro that are C01111)0sed of real patriots-who ·will be first? versy, and take their stand accordingly. . .. BILL TO CORRECT EVILS IN LIQUO~ PRESCRIPTIONS THE RANGERS PARALYZED BY INJUNCTION, Senate Bill No. 106, by Price and Woodward, aims to correct the abuses that have arisen in connection with the writing of liquor prescriptions. The proponents of CRIME LIFTS ITS HEAD DEFIANTLY this bill have acted upon the assumption that if a lot of "red tape" is heaped upon the Soon after the Rangers wore withdra·wn from San Anton~o, the bootleggers came physicians and the druggists in the writing and filling of prescriptions it will discourage from their dens to supply the thirsty with moonshine and tequila. Boys from 11 to 14 them from doing so. We think that it will have thrs tendency. In addition to this years of age were found bootlegging. the bill ~equires that every rescription be filed with the district clerk in the county in Home and State has received a petition from one of the border towns calling for which it is written and filled, and that the district clerk shall submit this information help against the bootleggers. This petition was signed by 29 citizens of the town to the grand jury. This phase of the bill is probably the most effective of any. mostly, if 1~ot all, mothers. Local officers arc giving these mothers no protection In addition to these provisions the bill requires affidavits and statements under against the bootleggers deLauching their children. Our only reply could be that there oath, all of which wi!l further discourage the violation of the law, and tend to obtain was no help coming. the results desired. At Denton auto tJ1ieves staged a riot. After ~hooting an officer they barricaded Personally we do not believe the bill will be so effective as its friends think it 1vill. themselves in a residence and defied the officers for three or four days. Rangers were "\Vc believe that some results 1-vill be obtained favorable to the enforcement of the law. called for and an ex-Ranger was sent, but he was largely paralyzed by Judge :Minor's Some physicians wi~l cease to write prescriptions-possibly some druggists will cease injunction against the Rangers operating. · to fill them. But as has been suggested by some of the doctors, if those who want A controversy over the election of the county judge ;n one of the western coun liquor for beverage purposes arc willing to pay an advance price, the doctors can charge ties reached such a point that some of the property owners asked for Rat~gcrs to pro additional for the additional "red tape" required, the druggists can do likewise, and tect the situation, and keep peace, but Judge Minor's injunction forbade it. make even b~tter profit and go on furnishing liquor for beverage purposes under the there is a bill in the legislature to forever refuse Rangers to any communitv or guise of furnishing it for medicinal purposes. county wh('re th local officers do not call for them. Of course that means that they To do so, however, will be a greater strain upon the conscience of the doctors and ·will seldom ever be sent. Officers who can not enforce the law will not thus contest the druggists who propose thus to furnish the thirsty with their booze: Some of" the their inefficiency; officers who arc in sympathy with the law violators will never ask doctors and some o£ the druggists will refuse to do so. Under the present law, in for Rangers to suppress them. order that the drinker of liquor may obtain one pint each day he must have ten doctors on his list who are willing to put their conscience in cold storage for the money to be obtained and write the prescriptions. Under the bill now before the legislatnre it 1vill require only six doctors thus to keep a man supplied with a bottle a day. But it will GOVERNOR FERGUSON PARDONS CATHOLIC PRIEST be a little harder to obtain the doctors, as ahove noted. Austin, Texas, Feb. 4.-Cov. Miriam A. Ferguson granted a pardon and rcmis~ion Because the above hill has, as we understand, the backing of the \V. C. T. U. of fine to Father A. Huebsch, a Catholic priest, who ~has been in jail in (;onzalcs since and of the present administration, we are also rendering support to the bill. \Ve feel last July under a plea of guilty to assault. He was fine $1,000 ai1d sentenced to jail confident that if the subject hart been approached from a different angle far more for one year. The pardon was obtained by Ex-Senator l. E. Clark of Schulenberg.
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