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Bribery, perjury, forgery and MURDER! These are the
instruments with which he wages warfare against
the Constitution of the United States
A remarkable series of searching articles from the pen of
Frederic William Wile, which has resulted from a nation-wide
personal investigation of the bootleggers' business, will be
released in The Morning Public Ledger next Sunday, August 13
It will show you that this business hasjattained such pro
portions that the profits are said te be $30(000,000 annually.
"Bootlegger kings" employ eminent and expensive legal
counsel te show them hew te evade every law of the land bear
ing upon illicit dealing in alcoholic beverages.
Bootleggers, denied the railroads, are using fleets of motor metor moter
trucks for the transportation of their poisons.
Bribes as high as $500,000 have been offered te Prohibition'
officials.
"Bootlegger kings" beast of their immunity from prosecu
tion or arrest and openly claim te have played with United
States Senators and Cabinet officials themselves. i
One bootlegger built up an interstate business that:
amounted te a turnover of $10,000,000 a year.
"Bootlegger kings" of varying degrees of royalty are being
apprehended, tried and convicted almost from week te week.
By all means read this series of articles, which lays bare the
vicious ramifications of the bootleggers' trade.
PUB LI C
LEDGER
OF PHILADELPHIA
CYRUS H. K. CURTIS, Publisher
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