The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-01-11
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From the fact ihat here i,as ag.n
fewer ca>cs than u>uai bcicre e
commissioners fnr lnoen~ainiae d T.
ing the past several nor;ii~ he ip,-
PRECISION prevails that Illicit ''iSiiil're
owing to he active efforts of Ihr State
.aad Federal officers. is on The wai....
bnt Rnldiug D~puty Collector Il y
Aiken. who is continually n the
n.ooushInc districts of this an'! sur
rounding counties aud who has also
had extensive cxpcrirnc" IN the same
linz ia North Carolina. says this i.'
pro-~ion is erroneous When he WIS
ASKED Yesterday if m"on>llue was de-
crea>lng. he laughed aud said
why, no: on the c ntrary it is
rampant. We don even interest the
mo"nshiuers. The State and Federal
officers don phase the business; don't
take the bark off it: don take the
edge off it. OF course we do all wc
can to keep it down; | NJ in the noun
tains nearly every day that am not
engaged in court and steadily bring
in the cases. Nevertheless we hardly
bother those fellows There is great
demaud for iqnor, which thc di-pcn-
sary can t meet, and for various rca-
sons. For one reason. the sentiment
of the people is rot behind the dis
pensary business and the Illicit sales
are wipked at and even encouraged.
The State distillerics are afraid oi the
State board in selling to tigers and
distillercs outside of the State are
afraid of their stuff being seized if
they ship to tigers. Consequently
the moonshiners have a monopoly icr
the tiger trade.
CAS- to the number of cases, that is
hardly an indication. Recent rulings
of the court have made it extremely
difficult to bring case. Before Il
warrant is issued now Il probable case
under affidavit has to be made out.
You've got to show who your witnesses
are and prove by their affidavits what
they will swear to, which gives the
friends of the defense opportunity to
direct the evidence at the final trial.
The detection of fraud on the part OF
officers led to restrictions. UP IN
North Carolina the moonshiners used
to work this trick: Finding that 4
case was going to be brought against
him the moonshiner would go to the
officer and acknowledge that there was
clear case against him, and give the
names of some of his relatives as wit
ncsses. saying they knew enough to
convict him and would ask that the
other witnesses be dismissed as their
being summoned was unnecessary.
The officer, having made his fee by
bringing the case, would comply and
when the case came up for trial these
relations would know practically moth
;nr and the moonsbiner would get off
There has been a great amount OF
fraud in bringing cases and in forging
claims lately both in the States around
here and bordering on the upper Mis-
sissippi and the department has been
compelled to adopt lot Of red tape
not used heretofore. This is q hard
ship to many good and faithful men
in the service by causing delay IN le-
cognition of claims and extra work IN
making out reports, but probably it
cuts off a deal of rascality. For IN
stance, in my report now have to
put down the exact time l leave to
make raid. how long | am out, ex-
actly what did. In short | have to
be painfully accurate and exact IN
everything. - Greenrj1'r Ne'rS.