Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-05-28
PROHIBITION Law
IN ARKANSAS IS
Being ENFORCED
Reports Indicate That Off
GERS Are Quick to Prose
cute Offenders.
by Clio Harper.)

| Little Rock, May 27.-The state
wide prohibition law is being enforced.
It has been demonstrated that it truly
prohibits, notwithstanding the doubts
that had been expressed by it's oppon-
ents.
Liquor is still being drunk in the
state, but it is shipped in by freight
and express in large quantities. The
law does not appear to reach that par
ticular condition, but it is predicted
that among the laws first to be intro
duced will be measures to regulate the
shipment and delivery of intoxicants
into the state.
Little Rock and a few other places
are considering the question of plac-
ing a tax upon liquor shipments, fol-
lowing the example set by Birming-
ham. 1t is predicted that it would pro-
duce very considerable revenue, that
due to the withdrawal of the saloon
license. Up to the present time, how
ever, this has been only speculative,
and no city has undertaken to pass an
ordinance.
An outstanding features of the pro-
hibition law, however, is the fact that
it is being enforced. The legislature
has clearly declared that it is felony
to sell or give away liquor, and the
supreme court has held that the law
means just what it says. There have
been numerous convictions of boot !
Logging in Garland, Craighead, Jeffer-
son, Greene, Miller, Pike and other !!
counties. and the sentence lis one year
i'm each case. The court has no dis
erection, unless it is to assess q longer
term. The law makes one year the
minimum. At Jonesboro nine men
We're sentenced to year in the peni-
Tertiary, at one time, and some prom
inent club men have been given the
limit at Hot Springs. There have been
a number of indictment in Pulaski
and other counties, and it is expected
that the business of bookkeeping will
be made SO unpopular that fewer will
engage in it.
The records at the state peniten-
tiary show that about rs convicts have
been received already, each with a
one-year sentence for the illegal sale
of liquor. Nearly fifty of these have
been received during the last thirty
days. Fully three-fourths of them are
negroes.
Circuit judges everywhere are in
Stfuctlng Jurles to see that the law
is rigidly enforced, and it has be-
come as dangerous to sell whiskey or
beer surreptitiously, in violation of
the state law, as it has been for sew
eral years to violate the federal law
by selling without a government
license.
Old Regulations Stand.
The supreme court finds that the
statewide law repeats all previous
laws providing for the punishment of
as misdemeanor. It is
also ruled that the former laws pro-
viding fines for soliciting LIQUOR
orders, advertising liquors in certain
counties, and similar acts, are not re-
pealed by the new law, and the penal
ties prescribed by the old laws still
obtain. In other words, all the pro-
hibitory laws are to be construed as
cumulative, with the heaviest penal
ties, that they may be made the most
drastic possible.
The bootlegger and the blind tiger
is having q rocky road to travel, and
is awakening to a realization Of the
fact that the courts mean business.
The time for dallying with the gentry
has passed.
There is no more agitation Of the