Arizona republican., 1921-08-29

l ing against the permission granted them to move these stocks by truck. One explained the other day that i'll the beginning shipping by truck seemed the easy way.
 "Then armed bands of highway men sprung up, said he. They be- gan to stop our trucks on the hiEh- way and take the whisky. We had been paid for it, of course. We suffer no loss. But a customer who has been robbed in that way never comes back"
 Kentucky isn't the only state in which highwaymen flourish more openly than they ever did in the palmiest days of lawlessness on the plains. The rum runners who bring whisky into New York city from the Canadian border are quite as afraid lof highwaymen as of the officers of the law. A highwayman will shoot, and doe.s, ,oot. A policeman rarely does. d ..len he takes care not to hit any one. Not long ago a peace full citizen of Washington was at the wheel of his domestic car on his way to his quiet home. He happened tc trail a big truck for some distance. Suddenly the rum guards on tho truck was a h1ehwayman or an officer, and in either case the revolver was the first defensive measure thought cf. Tempted By Easy Money | A schooner landed part of cargo of whisky on Martha's Vineyard on the New England coast not long ago. | Whisky was so plentiful on the island for time that the price ran | down to $5 a quart. But when the searchers tried to find whisky they did not discover one single quart on rT~l- .ln% f-x, <zF Martha's Vineyard may not have de- fled the law, but assuredly no one was found on the island to give the law effective aid. At pet r he business of smuggling whis-- the river has become an h, 7se one. In one of the southern sta. almost three thousand illicit stih. were destroyed last year. An organ ized whisky ring in New York is charged with many murders. Nor are the whisky runners in every in- stance men who would have been classed as toughs not long ago Easy money has tempted men from : Adams day on.
 T want to find safe investment . a rum-runner said to a friend o1 mine. 1t must be one in which can cover up the source of my money you know"
 The other man promised to aid The whisky man came into his of flee the next day with a huge sui case.
 Suit Case Full of Money
 "Gee,'' said he, I'm glad to ge rid of this. It is full of money. Sine [ started in this business this cas- has never been out of sight of som member of my family. We have sa | up with 1t day and night, for
 haven't dared put it in the bank'
 How much have you got?' aske' the law.
 .sSix hundred thousand dollars. said the other.
 It's just detail, but he bough Liberty bonds, because they are eas. to get rid of and hard to trace. On might go on with recital of fact of this sort indefinitely. There i hardly a village in the country il which rum-running and its accom- panying incidents are not a publi scandal. Certainly there Is hardly village in the east of which that ma, not be said. In the more law-abid ing west conditions are not so bad A story of robbery on the roads o theft or murder caused by the illici whisky business is a standing feat a ure of almost every newspaper frs page. No one knows what the gen
 eral situation is but every wide