Great Falls tribune., 1921-12-23
BATTLING WITH BOOT
LEGGERS

from Washington carries the
news that o. H. P. Shelley, the Mon
tana prohibition enforcement Of
ficer, is at the national capitol in
conference with Prohibition Com
missioner Haynes concerning ways
and methods of suppressing the
bootlegger. Mr.. Shelley says that a
very great percentage Of the boot
ieggers in this state are foreigners
and he proposes that when such Tor
eigners are caught and convicted
they be deported from the United
States az undesirable aliens. More
over, Mr.. Shelley states that where
such bootleggers are naturalized
citizens he will take steps to have
their citizenship papers revoked
and then have them cited for de-
portation. The thing could be
done, we suppose. When an alien
breaks the laws Of the country that
is his host, he is certainly an uri-
desirable alien, and a suitable per-
son to send back to the country he
came from. Such punishment
would be feared more than fine
or a few months in Jail, where they
are we'll fed and made comfortable,
with nothing to do but play cards,
smoke, and plan new breaches OF the
law with their Jail associates.
These deported foreigners do not
enjoy residence in the country from
which they came, as a rule. Here
they are free to hire hall and tell
native-born citizens what bad
government we have and advise
them what to do to overthrow it.
Back home they have way OF ar
resting them and making them work
hard, or standing them up against
a wall and firing a dozen bullets
into them. Usually they make them
dig their graves first, though, to
save time and expense. We note
that Emma Goldman and her side
partner, Alex Berkman, who tried
to murder ]. Pierpont Morgan once,
and so became popular hero
among our native anarchists, are
trying their best to get out Of Rus
sia, where we sent them. They do
not like it there, we are told. When
they were in the United States they
were telling people every day what
a paradise Russia was for poor
men and women to live in under the
Lenine government. They made it
pay. too. So that when they sailed
away to this paradise they carried
with them fat rolls of American
money. Emma and her male part
ner were communists also in theory,
so they should not have kicked very
hard when the Moscow comrades
made them share up this American
cash. It was very desirable stuff
in Moscow at that time. Their
comrades loved it. They just ate it
up and lost no time doing it. But
when their American money was
gone, Emma and her crowd found
themselves less popular. In fact,
they had to 60 to work. No one in
Russia would give them gold or
good food for mere words, how
ever violent these words were.
They are now at Riga trying their
best to get out Of Russia to any
other country in the world. They
have made the rounds of every
foreign consular office there and
no country wants them. Germany,
Poland, Sweden, Finland, Norway,
Switzerland, Great Britain, France,
all have positively refused to wise
their passports or give them resi-
dence in their country. They are
sadly contemplating the necessity
of going back to Moscow and to
work. Emma and her fat lover are
reported to have said that they
have changed their minds about the
American government and that they
are burning up with passionate love
for the American people, and the
nation where they were fed fat by
fools for speaking foul words
about the government that gave
them such Liberty, but Uncle Sam
also has hart4ned his heart against
their pleadinxs for another chance
to get At his foolish ones. We
think well Of the suggestion Of Q.
H. P. Shelley, that alien bootleggers
should be deported, It would save
VS. some money also, we guess, be-
cause it would be cheaper to pay
their passage back to their native
land than to feed them in Jail and
support their families while they
are there. The cost Of enforcing
- 4. -