The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-12-11
Speakers AT Law Enforce
ment Mass Meeting Sun
day Evening Plead For
Support.
TELLS or BEER RUNNERS
Attorney Frank Ebbert Tells Of Keno
shans' Experience In Judge Lands
Court 81 q. r.. Hutton Makes Com
ments On vice In Kenosha.


"lf Kenosha people want law en-
fOrcement, all they haze TO 20 is to de-
maui it and they viii get it, was the
message brought to Kencsha on Sunday
evening by r. P. Hutton, superintendent
Of the Wisconsin Anti Saloon League,
and by the Hon Frank B. Gilbert, noted
Chicago attorney who trailed the beer
runners, in their addresses at the law
enforcement mass meeting held in the
Park Avenue Methodist Church. Both
speakers told the four hundred people
who attended the meeting that the good
people of the city must demand law en-
forcement to receive it and that they
must follow their demands by support
at the polls for officials who they be-
heve will stand for enforcement not of
one law but of all the laws on the fed
eral, state and city statute books.
Gilbert Suggests Impeachment
Attorney Gilbert took this opportuni-
ty to speak directly on the question Of
the enforcement of the federal prohibit
tion laws. Some oficials,'' he said,
"have taken the position that this is q
federal law and that they being city
and state officials are not responsible
for enforcing it. There is not an of
fetal of this city or this county who
has not taken an oath to enforce the
constitution Of the United States and
all of its laws and if he does not follow
this, it is a violation of his oath Of
Office. He can be impeached and should
be inipeached. re your officials are not
enforcing the laws Of this great nation
there must be remedy by impeachment
and that is the course I recommend to
you. Put three or four Of them out Of
affiee and the rest viii take care of
themselves. Remember, however, that
they are not all to blame--you voted for
them, you put them in Office. Get out
on the next election day and measure
Up to your full civic duty
Sees Kenoshans on Trial.
The Chicago attorney told in an in
teresting way Of his part in the prose
cution Of the beer-runners, ''who made
Kenosha famous HI met a good
many of your citizens in Judge Lands :
court, said the attorney. III studied
them and I watched them and / must
confess that never have seen anyone
who had their sforgetteries' so highly
developed as some Of those Kenosha
men--one Of them-he weighed about
two hundred pounds-squirmed out of
many tight places by this system.
There is, however, no question but what
some Of these men who were in that
beer running episode will have long
time to think their part Of that episode
over in the federal penitentiary
Hutton Talks Plain.
Hold-up men seem to be gravitating
this way,'' said r. p. Hutton in open
ing his remarks. "That is not an ac-
cident They are coming here in obedi-
ance to natural law. The saloon is
the natural gathering place for these
men. illinois passed a law of her own
and enforced it against prohibition.
Illinois had in the chair governor
who believed in prohibition and had
backbone enough to close the saloons.
Then these outlaws lifted their noses
in the air, took one Whit and crossed
the state line into Kenosha and they
will keep on grayitating this way until
conditions are made such that this city
is no longer attractive to them. };
To illustrate what might be the trou-
BILE in Kenosha, Mr., Hutton recalled
his experiences at Astoria, Oregon,
where he led in law enforcement
which changed that city from the most
lawless one on the Pacific Coast to one
of the model cities of the west. "The
mayor there said the speaker, had
been elected on a platform not to en-
force the prohibition law. The sheriff
was secretary of the liquor dealers
association, the chief Of police was an
over of stock in that association, the
district attorney was gambler and
the city attorney took off his apron
as bartender to be sworn in as city
official. The people Of Astoria showed
these officials that they wanted the
laws enforced and these same officials
went out and enforced them. =
May blame Many Things.
''Then,' continued Mr.. Hutton, st
is possible for a prosecuting attorney
to be very busy without doing any
thing, once had horse that could
trot almost all day in the shade of a
big apple tree and some prosecuting
attorneys are like that The selection
of panels for jurics may also be to
|, blame as it was in Appleton where
every panel chosen by the sheriff of
that county acquitted certain classes
Of lawbreakers and every panel select
ed by the constables found the defen-
dants guilty. / don I know thing
about your district attorney or your