The Springdale news., 1914-12-04
BOOLEGGiNG IN SPRING.
 DALE MUST BE STOPPED

Springdale seems to be infected just at present with a very severe case of selling liquor without li- cense2 to be polite. but to say it in straight language 'bootlegging. " The disease seems to be growing strongel as the holiday season is approach ing, and the persons or things seems to be growing bolder as Christmas days draw near
 The Whiskey selling is done by To- cal parties. is the belief among the police, and they are shrewd with the maneuyers Saturday quite a quantity of the booze was unloaded in Springdale. if the number of fellows toting q bulge on their hip could be called tell-ta1e signs sZBocaI officers are doing all in their power to stop the sale of whiskey, and have about succeeded in running down eleWs that will bring to=hght- peculiar state of affairs existing in Spring dale. and the exposure Is going to give fathers and mothers of Spring dale many fearful thought It .is probable that several young men Of Springdale and immediate vicinity will be brought before the authori- ties, and some of their number fined, but this will not stop the sale of whiskey. Parties who make Whiskey selling their methed of living, usual ly lay enough aside to pay fine or two each fall, and yet their profits are such thai they can add to the city funds, and yet make good wages. What We need is d more stringent law with regard to whiskey selling. In Texas d boot-legger gets no less than two years i'll the penitentiarF. in Oklahoma the least punishment is q fine of $50 and thirty days in jail, and the second offense S100 fine and ninety days in jail, and many of the good roads Of Oklahoma are main tdned by gangs of whiskey ped dlers, and in the state penitentiary Of Texas six hundred men are serving sentences of two years for booze selling. In Arkansas whiskey selling Is made a misdemeanor on the law books, and a fine Of $50 is the mini mum Ninety cases out of every hundred get the minimum, as any person conversant with the Circuit Court records know that every term of Court sees quite number pay fine Of s50 and costs for $. l. W l.. which is the court way of abbre- viating selling liquor without li- cense In Texas they call II boot logging, in Oklahoma booze pedal ing, Arkansas gives it dainty name, and likewise dainty punish ment
 The fist fight at the dance satur- day night plays around whiskey like hungry bees around honey. and while the whiskey may not have been pur- chased from peddlers, still all the earmarks are there; and it is posi- lively known that if some of the par ticipants had not been filled with the fighting juice there would have been no fight, and q young man would not be at home lying between life and death, while his assailants were out under heavy bond awaiting the outcome
 Bootleggers. nor their assistants do not court publicity; they are the sneaky, slimy sort of people, who must ply their trade in the alleys, under bridges, between barns, under the protecting shadow Of night, and when brought out under the calcium glare of publicity whine and wriggle like snake in the grass. Last Sat urday was q busy day with the clan in Springdale, and as each week pass es toward he end of the year, the sales grow larger, and the partie1- pants more bold.
 It's time to stop the boot-legging, and it can only be done by giving the parties caught in the drag net the maximum penalty.