Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-05
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The state guard ompany from
Louisa has been sent to Sanity +,
Hook, Elliott county, to project |
witnesses who testify against |
moonshiners. A sad commentary.
indeed, upon the influence frat
such violators Of the law seem to
have in that community. But is It ]
only in Elliott county that the
sinners are SO powerful? Tie
Daily Register received an anoiay
nous letter the other day from
one of its readers in the Dreyfus
section of this county. Ordinarily
no attention is paid to anonymous
letters They are usually CON
signed to the waste basket. Bat
this letter deserves publicity and
it's going to have it. The .vriter
said:
Dear Sir II want TO let you
know what is going on around
Dreyf us. The moonshiners Ind
bootleggers are taking he place
| What is the matter With the off
GERS IN Richmond Car,t they
lcome cut and do nothing witt
then If not, | think tac; lad
better throw up their cficc5 and
quit the trade. We can't have
church for them. So please put
this in the Daily Register. Tie
women in this county have dccid-
ed not to vote for nary officer
who won't do his duty"
That's not bad idea. either.
Let the good people of this corn-
ty find out who are the men who
will enforce the law without fear
or favor, and vote for them re-
igardless OF their politics. But
this bootlegger business IS a
mighty hard thing to stop. The
local officers are doing the best
they can under the circumstances.
| They don't stay out and hunt
ibootleggers all the time. OF
Icourse. Whenever information is
furnished them. they promptly
go after the suspects and it is
fact that many, many witnesses
have been summoned before the
grand juries who looked like they
ought to know something but
when put under their sacred oaths
they swear they don't. So what
can the officers do in such cases ?
But Madison county is no diff
ferent from others. The same
thing is heard all over this and
other states. National prohibit
ition seems to have made thous-
ands OF bootleggers where there
WAS one before Perhaps : it is
better as it is, bat we confess, it's
a peculiar situation. Just to show
that Madison isn't different from
the rest Of the counties of Ken
stuclly, read this from the Adair
| County News the other day:
| Judging from the reading O.
our exchanges, the illegal sale
land manufacture OF whisky is
rapidly growing all over Ken
lucky; not only in Kentucky, but
IN many other states. The pro-
Inhibition officers are doing. per
haps, all they can to check the
traffic but their efforts accom-
plish but little. What is the use
in having a law if you can not en-
force it !? This. paper stands for
prohibition and would like to see
the violators Of law arrested and.
punished, but if no one. Will swear
out warrants how are you going
to catch the offenders? The Judge
may hold court of inquiry and
witnesses will state on the stand
that they purchased whisky, in
the dark. did not know from
whom they got it, and would not
know were they to see him Can
you not see that the court IS.
blocked? 1t is up to the govern
ment to make a more drastic
move. 1t IS also stated that whis-
ky is sold in this town and in the
louOuloo s&OI SoiuiHDid every Gay.
AS long as sympathy is manifest
ed for the illegal traficers, just SO
long will we have whisky sold in
the community. 1t is said that
no longer than week. ago men
were seen reeling drunk, upon the
square. There is evidently
way to make. arrests and interro-
gate them, and the officers shout