Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-28

brewery there is q road leading back
into the woods near the Great North
ernl bridge and It is claimed that they
saw many soldiers and other young
women were with them and allewere
drinking.
Mr.. McInerny declares that since
the Minnesota county option law
forced saloons out OF Polk county. his
brewery has manufactures beer only
under contract and that no orders
were solicited In Grand Forkstzo in
North Dakota. The party contracting
for the beer, It Is said. had to furnish
was ready, he was notified.
sConspiracy' Says Watkins.
The state authorities declare this
was a conspiracy to violate the boot.
Logging law, and that many OF the
actually bootlegging.
In speaking of the raid, .Superin-
tendentS Watkins said: u
We had received many ecomplaints
about conditions here and we should
have made the investigation much
more thorough, but were forced sinte
quick action by the Immediate session
OF the federal; grand jury. w shave
received complaints about q number
of other places in Grand Forks, many
of them coming from people in diff.
ferent parts of the state who had chill.
dren going to school here. 54;
We have cleaned up practically
every red light district in the state al
a result Of the enforcement leagues
work. Not less than 126 bawdy houses
have been ~padlocked since 1909.
Expects Public Approval.
THE Law Enforcement league hal
been securing excellent corporation
from Mr.fLanger and his Office force
We have got nothing but q square deal
from them and everything has beer
done that was promised. We r get.
ting law enforcement now; a thing
that has been hard to get heretofore
I have told MI. LANCER for years thai
a Reinforcement program would
meet with the approval Of the people
OF the state and he realizes 1t as vel
as anyone. AS a result, we r get
ding it. 4
I'VE did not take the local states
attorney in on the case, for the sim
pie reason that he did not hold out
any promise Of cooperating with us
I wrote him some time ago telling
him about the local situation and
got no favorable reply. RIB. Grit.
fifth, the president Of the league, also
went to- him about 1t. Local officials
knew of the conditions. for they had
been informed. and they. could have
stopped the thing and made last
nights action unnecessary.
"I want to say now that we are go,
ing after the men at the top. We're
going to get the big ones. and II Of
1cials don't do their duty, we will take
proper action. ~ !f
Attorney General LANCER said: "Al
long as the soldiers are in North Da'
ed, SO far Is the attorney generals Of
Ace Is concerned, no liquor will b.
sold to them and no prostitutes will
be allowed near them"
North Dakota, Minnesota and fed
eral authorities are cooperating II
the campaign. to prevent the illega
shipment Of liquor into this state, 1
was said. u
McInerny's Statement.
y. Fl. McInerny, made the follow
ing statement this afternoon:
THE East Grand Forks brewery
bnow and has been for twenty-five
years past owned and operated b!
bona f1de North Dakota residents VIII
have always carried On, the business
~in3tcareful compliance with the law
at present there Is probably NOR
than 100000 invested in the plan
subsistence to Its owners and EN-
ployes who with their families aggre
gate from 1876 to 200 persons.
IT the plant can. be operated law
fully 1t is the purpose to continue It
operations: IL 1t cannot be 50 operate,
It will be closed down, its value wipe
out and destroyed and these peopl
thrown out Of employment and the
must find some other method Of earn
ling a living; some Of them are no,
we'll along in years and are unite
Ito learn a new trade or profession.
Under County Option Law.
The county option law In Mime
sofa does not forbid the manufacture
Of beer; 1t Is lawful to manufacture
beer in East Grand Forks. The sol
complaint is as to the method Of dis
tribution. forsit Is admitted that If tn
beer was shipped to Red Lake Fal!
it could be sold from that point an
deliveredlin East Grand Forms or else
where save as now affected by tn
federal law. No complaint has bee
made of a violation of the feders
law. For about two years the brewer
has not sold a drop Of. beer to anyon
and has never shipped any beer fc
1 ~~SS "a i. St4O III g
product has been shipped 1t the re
quest OF the owners thereof by thei
own agent legally appointed.
Offered to Open Books.
"The plan on which the brewer
sofa option law went into effect ha
never been concealed. The day afte
the county option law went Into effet
I outlined the plan to the public in a
interview printed in the Grand Fork
Herald on Nov. "a, 1915, and severe
days prior thereto the president {
the company had gone into the maj
ter in detail by letter to the count
attorney of Polk county, writing hill
Just how h brewery would be OF
Grated In the future and&offering hill
access to all of Its books and ecort
SO that the matter could be tested o,
in the courts.
The brewery will be legally o,
Grated or else not at all and its owl
ers have repeatedly; offered to aid ar
assist the officers to test the matt,
in the courts without technicalities
objections.
1.-THE recent raid was entirely. u,
necessary save to crafty a desire (,
to create q public hysteria which "
coerce the courts 70 go. beyond the la
to destroy without compensation ii
property which furnishes the suppo
Of widows, and orphans, and innoce
employees"
.LENINE, RUSSIAN WHO
. BETRAYED REVOLUTION
!, TO GERMANY, HIDDE