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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, . 1922.
A Natien-Wide Expose of the Bootlegging Industry by the Public
Ledger in a Series of Articles, by Frederic William Wile, Will
Shew Yeu That Murder, Bribery, Forgery and Perjury Are the
Everyday Weapons of the "Bootlegging Kings."
The President of the United States in his Marien address en the Fourth of July said:
"There is no mere serious issue before the American people of today than the sustaining of the Eighteenth Amendment. The
principle involved is net merely a wet or a dry preposition. It does net revolve around a question merely of light wines and beer.
The issue is squarely Constitutionalism or lawlessness."
The President intimated that contempt for the law in the United States
is en a scale that threatens te undermine our very foundations.
Mr. Wile, through personal investigation, has uncovered figures
and facts te show that bootlegging is an industry of great proportions. That
it exists through the active or passive co-operation net only of America's
average citizen, but some of the country's leading citizens, in spite of the
systematic warfare against it waged by Majer Rey A. Haynes, Federal Pro
hibition Commissioner, assisted by his nation-wide corps of Federal prohibi
tion enforcement agents.
As far back as last year, there were listed in the Federal Courts alone
approximately 30,000 cases arising under prohibition statutes.
James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the United States, told the Ameri
can Bar Association that the estimated annual profits from prohibition
violations reached $300,000,000, and that respect for law among all classes
steadily diminishes as our people become tolerant of such wholesale
criminality.
by In club rooms, at formal and informal dinners, in drawing rooms, in
PUBLIC
the corner grocery everyhere, in homes and shop, bootlegging is the inces
sant topic of conversation. The weather and the condition of your health
have ceased te be topics of small, or routine, talk.
Liquor smuggling out of Bend is rampant. Liquor is streaming across
all our seaboards and frontiers and is being made in American homes and in
thousands of illicit stills right here in our own country, principally in the
cities.
"Moonshine" is no longer confined te the mountain fastnesses and
isolated caves of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia or the Carolinas. It is quite
possible that there is a moonshine still within a square of where you are
reading this word.
This series of articles from the pen of Mr. Wile will begin in the
Morning Public Ledger en next Sunday, August 1 3th.
Bribery, perjury, forgery, even organized murder itself , are the means
by which the public is able te purchase bootleggers' liquor, OF WHICH
ONLY TWO PER CENT IS PURE, while 98 per cent is poisonous in vary
ing degrees.
LEDGE R
OF PHILADELPHIA
CYRUS H. K. CURTIS, Publisher
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