Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-15

In a campaign to put every prose
cutor in the state in q position to put
every violator of the dry laws out of
business" and to arOuse the public to
its duty to aid the public officials re-
sponsible for the enforcement of the
prohibition laws. Captain Frank b. Eb-
bert, general counsel for the Pacific
coast department of the Anti Saloon
League Of America. in charge of the
law enforcement work for that organ
izatiOn for the 10 Pacific coast states
with headquarters at San Francisco.
spoke ut the Palace theater in Great
Falls Sunday night.
Before we have finished with this
drive" he declared, I'VE will conduct
mass meetings like this one in every
county seat in all the Pacific coast
states, and inform not only the public,
but the officers, of their duties in con-
~nection with the eighteenth amendment
and the prohibition laws"
Captain Gilbert was introduced by
II. A. Duncan, president of the Cas-
cade County Law Enforcement league.
under whose auspices the meeting was
held. Music was furnished by a male
guartette, directed by Professor X. A.
Reyes. A large crowd attended the
meeting.
Captain Gilbert praised the juries in
the district court trials of Cascade
county for their convictions in liquor
cases., saying that with the exception
of one term of court only three acquit-
tails in liquor cases had been returned
by juries since the eighteenth amend
judges for the uniformity of their deci-
sions in sentencing convicted violators
of the national prohibition law.
Five Definite Steps
There are five derlnite steps which
enforcement officers can take against
violators of the prohibition laws, in
GLIDING the provision for a federal tax
to be levied against both m%anufactur-
ers and retailers of illicit liquor. 1t
does not matter if the prosecution is
under the state or federal laws. Very
few state officers are familiar with
this feature of the law Captain Eb-
bert said.
Every v~iolator of the federal laws
nay be fined and sent to Jail; COM
PEELED to pay a federal tax of 81 600
for each manufacturer and $500 for
each retailer; an additional $S3.33 for
each month he has operated. and an
additional $3.50 for each gallon he
sells.
LAS a result of information to the
tut PhcSCSutoio VI VIC VI Ii
law, we are putting on the tax records.
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
heak and unpaid taxes for these VIC
lAtuss.
Injunction Is Teeth of Law
Use of the Injunction" Captain Eb-
bert declared, lis really the teeth of
the law. because it gives the enforce
ment officers a chance to get away
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and often has, closed up for a year
property in which the prohibition law
has been violated. But the main ad-
vantage is that if. after the injunction
is in force, there is a violation of it's
terms, the violator may be brought into
court, where he stands guilty of con-
tempt of court for which he must go
to Jail and pay a large additional fine"
Captain Ebbert said.
Then under the state law he can
be arrested again and upon being
found guilty, he can be fined and sent
TO Jail for breaking the state law. BY
the n act, be has committed two
offenses, one against the federal gov
eminent and one against the state gov
eminent, and he canno plead former
jeopardy. inasmuch as one violation of
the prohibition law is two offenses and
he can be prosecuted for both offenses.
We can then go before the state court
and secure a state injunction against
the violator.
May Bring Civil Action
But the law has still another hold
against the violator. If any wife, child
or mother who is dependent upon a
person for support. is injured through
the sale of liquor to the one who sup
ports them, these dependents may
bring a civil action against the violator
and collect a judgment as high as S1O.-
We are also just beginning to
use the provision of the general laws
by which a person who buys liquor may
be indicted for conspiracy to violate
the law, which act is a felony and an
against both the state and
federal governments. We feel that by