The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-10-21
roRosrTY OF PROHIBITION

year of its enforcement. Then,
along about the first Of this month
two Labor members Of the British
Parliament who visited the United
States last summer to investigate
and report on the results of prohi-
bition, stated in their Joint report
that prohibition as we in England
we're led to believe 1t prevailed, does
not exist; America has been describ-
ed to us as "a bootleggers' paradise.
The non-enforcement of prohibition
in the United States, they aver, and
the resultant consequences on the
morals of the people bode i'll for the
future, particularly as regards the
rising generation"
Coincident with this official re-
port comes the news from Chicago
that, according to the Chief OF Po-
lice, fifty per cent OF Chicago's po
lice force are identified with the
bootlegging industry; that "prohi-
bition enforcement in Chicago is a
joke; that there is more drunken
ness than ever before. more deaths
from liquor than before prohibition,
and more of every evil attributable to
the use of liquor" 1t is even declar-
ed in a Chicago dispatch to the New
York Times that "one police station
was the home of a nest Of bootleg
gers, who delivered whisky in the
patrol wagon" and that uniformed
policemen would rob whisky ship
ments in the freight yards, under pre-
tense of confiscating the liquor. and
sell the booty in case lots. There
upon policeman would appear and
a substantial amount for pro-
lection, and after the amount had |
been paid still another policeman
would raid" the place-and collect
another fee for protection. Yet an
,ther policeman, it is said, would con
iscate the liquor and eventually sell
{ to some saloonkeeper.
A nationwide prohibition survey
Conducted by the New York Tribune,
With the aid of its correspondents In
many of the large cities finds that /,
smoothly running Bookkeeping ma
hines" are operating in dozen
arge centers, and that "the Eigh-
eenth Amendment is being flouted
lmost as openly in every other large !
itv as in New York" where the
reatest degree of wetness is sup ,
osed to prevail. "Bootlegging has
ever been so prevalent throughout |
lew England, with the exception OF ,
be first months of prohlDit'on en- {
Greer, emit" reports one Tribune cor
people drink more ,
har they ever did" we hear from 6
.altimorc, while it is estimated that
n the vicinity of Detroit a thousand
ases of "a, adian liquor com, across
he border every twenty-four hours.
altogether, say United States Gus I
oms authorities, international boot a
pegers smuggle into this country 7
bout 100000 gallons of liquor a 1
Month. More Scotch whisky has !
cen imported into the Province OF /
,uebec in the last year than in the l
ntire ten years that went BEFORE G
yers the Providence News, when l
nrther declares that this enormous v
urplus comes into the United States. t
.dded to all these. says the New I
'ork Evening Post, are the 10000 4
allons of whisky and the 362,532
uarts of campagne that we're le-
ally imported during the first eight
lonths of 1921.
Other cities covered by The Tri-
mes survey are Philadelphia, St..
outs. Cincinnati, New Orleans,
leyeland, Denver and San Francisco
In all these cities, we are told, the
olstead Law is being violated every
mere. New York receives six train
,ads of liquor a day, asserts the
ew York World, "but how this stuff
cts in or where it comes from no
ne has officially found out" 1.-THE
Increment of the law" maintains
he Seattle Post Intelligencer. has
ecome complicated and impossible
lainly because bootlegging is in the
ands of big business The en-
,rcing of prohibition threatens to
emoralize completely the police de-
artments of American cities" agrees
lie Philadelphia Public Ledger. AS
2. w. Jermane writes from Wash
lgton to the Seattle Times: 4
at. is not too much to say that
rohibition seems to be nearing
isis, and that the question of wheth-
r it is to break down under general
as the Fourteenth
has done, may be deter I
lined in the next twelve months.
81 write this not as indicating de-
re to take the wet side, but to ex-