The Mena weekly star., 1921-07-21
STALKS IN
 NkKE OF HOOTCH
I.1s Connections Are Purveyed Ho5tIeggers and Moonshiners E, 3re Arch Criminals. Accord
 fo Little Rock Expert.

Rock, July 1.-The drug on the increase and hospitals are filled with a |
 number of broken down and
 ane victims of the poisonous |ons dispensed by bootleggers M before, according to the 16 of J. Ruel Manning, chem toxicologist in charge of the $Eates Internal Revenue Lab- zer the Southwestern District, A o. U. W. building, which Approximately one-fourth of ! land area of the United 64ldence points to the conclu- It many persons accustomed to
 ifl alcoholic stimulants, de- IT prohibition enforcement of neans of gratifying their ap- 6ze resorting to cocaine, nor |1zd opium as substitutes, and Sse who seek solace in the |I products of the illicit stills or |3erous toilet and medicinal |<ions containing alcohol, soon
 physically or mentally, or the ruinous egects of the fft intoxicants.
 bstantial drop in the price of
 5e whiskey in Little Rock and
 kansas points indicates that
 g is becoming more plentiful 86th, altho prohibition officers 5ing the hills in the districts, llnditions are favorable for il- Eilling and raiding whiskey rotor cars and wagons on the |x which the big, profitable !; are reached.
 5 Observers hold the view that Eibition enforcement machin-
 s present scale is doomed to
 and that unless the force of
 officers is increased and al so-operation of local city and 4fiicers secured, the moon Haffic not only cannot be
 but, but cannot even be held Manning is a highly qualified on narcotics and their effects. specialized on toxicology, and and experience have ed him that the dope ped ss more actual harm to human has more deaths checked up cfedit than any other class of causes more misery" said MT. F. land is more dangerous to ! Than an insane man running With a pistol in either hand in He'd thorofare could possibly
 he bootlegger, with his ne-
 Beverages" runs the dope
 a close second, the chemist He knows whereof he speaks,
 office is probably the largest
 museum in this part of the < 1t contains samples of hun- q different brands of wild cat and his laboratory tests have | that much of it contains aDisons. One sample was talk [ a man who had died from the 4f the "swig" he- took from a &<le which was found to con- nd alcohol. zzople only knew the ruinous 1 the human system of the var connections on the
 at the present time, there fe very little drinking in the foday,,' said Mir. Manning.
 gers would starve to death if jI[c knew the contents of their Right in this laboratory in the 3uths I have been here 1 have These poisons in the samples Ed: pyridin, benzine, nitro sulphuric ether, formalde- of mercury and wood
 Fine stuff for a human being <Fe found that some bootleg ke denatured alcohol and color E look like real whiskey, and 14 beverage, all trimmed up lbels of standard brands and | in bonds" stamps. The stuff fedeye' is often made from de- alcohol artificially colored. rT uii is natural constituent hol beverages" he said. But | of the legitimate distillar to to as much fusel oil and other [ natural constituents as pos 8his was done by aging. The le whiskey the less the fusel oil ]. Practically all moonshine is
 The 'shiner' cannot afford to s product. He fears the law IHts to get it off his hands as possible after 1t is made. It kkls reason that wildcat. even Raining no adulterants or ar- p0isons, is much more harm |1n the old bottled in bond. |k manufacturers of illicit 2 are the lowest and most ig- tlass of humanity he contin- They cannot be expected to
 with the pure food and drug
 Sometimes the old oaken that has been used to feed ! the hogs is shifted to service 3fill. I find evidence of much E filth in a large number of Wples I examine. Now and
 there is a harmful metallic Eom the copper or tin still,
 and then a trace of lye,
 used to break up the husks
 resulting from the boiling
 the still during the distilling & have been many criticisms
 eition enforcement, hnt how
 public expect a strict enforce
 ben intelligent, or at least
 Americans pour down their inch suicidal connections? ? The 6f suh indulgence if continu- II have a mental. moral and
 Meet not only on the drinker, 6H generations to come"
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