The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-08-26

Elght-ounce bottles of these extracts
which Fred W. Crockett, the city
prosecuting attorney describes as the
cleverest camouflage ever devised to
defeat prohibition" are sold retail at
a dollar and half bottle and whole
sale at eighty-seven cents bottle.
The manufacturers get the alcohol
from the state at 10 per cent above
cost and sell the product at AN enor-
nous profit. Thousands of these bot
ties are consumed every day, causing
so much drunkenness that the city
prosecutor has been driven to cry out
IN protest against the federal and
state administrations.
Empty bottles OF these fruit extracts
are found by the scores Mt resorts, in
public places, vacant lots and by the
side of the roads. silent but eloquent
witnesses of the extent to which the
traffic has grown.
In the month Of July there were 10
convictions for drunkenness in Salt
Lake. Day after day the city prose
cutting attorney Is called upon to send
10 jail men who are made drunk by
the cOnnlyance of the state of Titan
and by the federal administration.
In addition to the fruit extracts, de-
natured alcohol Is being sold in vast
quantities. Men and women have gone
blind or have died in Salt Lake City
within the last few months as a result
Of consuming this deadly alcoholic con-
cOct!on as beverage. The other day
man appeared before the city court
Is witness and begged that his wife
pc sent To Jail because she was going
blind and crazy from drinking dena-
iured alcohol.
The city prosecuting attorney Is
daily confronted by pathetic cNses
that wiring his heart. A boy Is ar
rested and his mother goes To Mr.
Crockett and pleads with him to have
her son released so that he VIII NOT
lose his job. The lad has been sen
fenced to thirty days In jall because
We became issbrlatet. ny drinking 4
fruit extract licensed ~ the federal
government and virtually made by the
state.
"rhe law Furnishes n victim severe
w." reads I'm editorial In The Citl'
yen (Salt Lake, discussing the start
ling revelations made " Mr.. Crockett
"The city judge canno> Ihow mercy
| The law provides that the victim shall
be sentenced to pay fine of $40 oi
serve thirty days In Jail. The victim
goes to Jail, loses his job, disgraces
| his parents and becomes marked rs
bum while the grocer 0r soft drink
purvcyor who sold him the deadly
| liauor, as well az the manufactures, Il
permitted 10 go unwhipped Of justice
aye permitted and licensed TO grow
rich.
! THE city prosecuting attorney tried
| 10 stop the traffic at It's sources, hui
tracts were being made under govern
mental authority.
| "On April 3, j. 3. Powell. n grocer
who had been selling orange and Other
extracts containing alcohol. was ar
rested aud charged with violating the
law. James W. Shields. who was ther
on the police force had the evidence
but when the case came up for tria
on May g he was one Of the fedora
prohibition officers and as u result Of
Information he had gathered In thai
capacity he testified that the makel
Of the extract was licensed by the fed
sruI authorities and manufactured the
product with alcohol purchased from
lie state.
"In establishment and disgust Mr.
Crockett asked that the case agains
the srocer he dismissed and no con
sclentlous man Will find fault viii
him for taking this action. Here WA
n prosecuting attorney asking for tn
conviction OF man who was sellln,
nh alcoholic beverage in which TN
federal administration, the State AM
the maker had practically formed ,
partnership.
The extrnct was manufactured b!
the Davidson-I.ake Tea \ Coffee com
"Capitol Brand" and bears hi IN
label n picture OF the Utah state cap
itol. Ii IN labeled Substitute Orang
Extract" though why the word substi
tuie Is used Is not clear,
''rle samples taken from the gro
Gerry We're submitted to Hermal
Harms. the state chemist, for analysis
lie repu'ied that the extract con
iuiurd Is per cent alcohol. ar praclI
cally rs much Ms high grade whisky
In other words, II Is just us lnt0Xlcnt
ing ns whisky and many will prefe
It's flavor 20 that Of whisky or gin
II is not u distilled liquor, but slmpl.
n mixture OF alcohol and flavorng
Drink m cight-ounce bottle OF II ant
you viii spit in The face OF II noun
lrln lion; you will throw up your lol
and go over 10 the public safety build
Ing and say you can lick any man il
the department, bar none.
This is the Capitol Brand o
hOOtlegglng. An administration Whicl
was elected To enforce the prohibition
law is supplying the alcohol 10 de
bauch our citizens.
u. =. Powell, the grocer, testlfie,
Ihal h. Mold Ihs e1 irnct inri ~ h.. III,