The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-08-19

Eight.ounee bottles of these extracts
which Fred w. Crockett, the city
prosecuting attorney describes as 1.-THE
cioverest camouflage ever devised TO
defeat prohibition" are sold retail at
dollar and half II bottle and whole
sale Mt cighty.seven cents bottle.
The manufacturers get the alcohol
from the state ut 10 per cent above
cost and sell the product ut 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 at 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 115
convictions for drunkenness In Salt
Lake. Day after day the city prose
cutting attorney Is called upon TO send
to jail men who are made drunk by
| the connivance of the state of Utah
and by the federal administration.
In addition to the fruit extracts, de-
nntured 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
/ cOctlon as q beverage. The other day
man appeared before the city court
rs witness and begged That his wife
be sent to Jail because she was going
blind and crazy from drinking dcna-
tured alcohol.
The oily prosecuting attorney Is
daily confronted by pathetic cases
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 50 that he will not
lose his Job. The lad has been sen
fenced to thirty days In Jail because
he became incbriated by drinking n
fruit extract licensed by the federal
government and virtually made by the
state.
"The law Furnishes victim severe
ly," reads an editorial In The Citi'
zen (Salt Lake) discussing the start
ling revelations made by Mr.. Crockett
The city judge cannot show mercy
The law provides that the victim shall
be sentenced to pay fine OF $50 or
serve thirty days In Jail. The victim
goes to Jail, loses his job, dIsgraces
; his parents and becomes marked as
q bum while the grocer or soft drink
purveyor who sold him the deadly
! liquor, as well as the manufactures, Is
permitted to 60 unwhipped of justice
aye permitted and licensed to grow
, rich.
THE city prosecuting attorney tried
10 stop the traffic ut Its sources, but
found, to his amaEement, that the ex
tracts were being made under govern
mental authority. .,,,.,
ION April 8. J. 8. Powell, q grocer
who had been selling orange and other
extracts containing alcohol. was ar
rested and charged with violating the
law. James w. Shields, who was then
, on the police force, had the evidence
but when the case came up for trial
: on May 9 he was one Of the federal
4, prohibition officers and ms result oil
Information he had gathered in tina,
: capacity he testified that the maker
Of the extract was licensed by the fed
eral authorities and manufactured the
product with alcohol purchased from
, the state,
! IN establishment and disgust Mr.
!, Crockett asked that the case agains
the grocer be dismissed and no con
scientlous man will find fault with
I him for taking this action. Here wat
n prosecuting attorney asking for thu
conviction of n man who was selling
q an alcoholic beverage In which thu
. federal administration, the state ant
the maker had practically formed I
D partnership.
:, 1.-THE extract was manufactured b.
tho Davidson-Lake Tea 4 Coffee com
: pany of Salt Lake II Is marked
"Capitol Brand" and bears ON 80
label picture OF the Utah state cap
. itol 1t Is labeled Substitute Orang
-, Extract" though why the word substi
tute Is used Is not clear.
, "The samples taken from The FRO
, Gerry We're submitted 90 Herman
Harms, the state chemist, for analysis
I lie reported that the extract con
tanned IS per cent alcohol, or pruct
cally as much as high grade whisky
4 In other words, IL Is just as lntOXcai
4, ing MS whisky ard many win prefe
: Its flavor to that OF whisky or gin
II IS not n distilled liquor but slmpl
n mixture Of alcohol and flayorlnl
Drink an eightounce bottle OF It an
4 YOU will spit in the face of noun
! tain lion; YOU will throw up your 10
\ and go over to the public safety build
!, ing and say you can HEX any man /
, the department, bar none.
This Is the Capitol Brand G
4 hootlcgGlng. An administration whlc
) was elected to enforce the prohibltlo
S ! law Is supplying the alcohol to d,
y banch our citizens.
-. y. Powell. the grocer. testifie
| lhni ha Gold Iha nxlract iusI n hn IA