Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1922-12-22
There Are Very Few Americans In
Federal Record OF Offenders.
Growing Demand
FOR THEIR DEPORTATION
The Turpitude OF ViOIatOrs Takes
Light Penalties As A Part Of
Traffic.
CBy Edward J. Hunter in North
American)

bibulous could retain. recollection OF
the cognomen of the dispenser OF their
Doison I'D till the time they lapsed in
to comma. But the official who's Who
Among Pennsylvania BOotleggers
the docket of the clerk of the United
States court-shoWs that those Gays
are gone forever.
This who's Who" effectually up
sets the favorite argument OF the palo
liquor propaganda who asserts that
many otherwise honest Americans"
are violating the law by their trahlck-
ing in the contraband stuff.
It is true that in the early days OF
prohibition, many of the Oldest saloon
keepers, hopeful that the law might
be rescinded, still stuck to the trade.
But the records indicate that when
they found that the federal judges
were disposed to punish the
offenders severely many of them clos
ed up their places or disposed Of them
to others who were willing to take
chance with the law.
The result is that for some time the
vast majority of those arrested here
have been possessors OF distinctly
foreign names-names which had not
yet been subjected to the process OF
Americanization. Still others have
been found to be aliens who had
adopted names which concealed their
origin.
Most of Them Alien Names
The result is that out of 496 defend
ants who have pleaded guilty or who
have been adjudged guilty since the
prohibition law first went into effect,
257, or more than so per cent, were the
bearers of distinctly foreign appella-
lions. Of the remainder, there were
probably a hundred of the old saloon
keeping type, caught in the earlier
days, and the rest were foreigners,
with newly adopted names, or the riff
raft who likewise are to be found
carrying on the white slave trade in
its lowest form of trafficking in the
miserable business of dispensing dope.
VirtuallyVthe same percentage OF
distinctly foreign names was foun0
among those whose cases await dispo-
sition, Of such untried cases there are
SCI, many of which date back to the
first months of prohibition enforce
ment in this district. Here it also was
found that as the violation of the law
DGCdu6 SuUJCCL " SACdbLCA 4A9R sAAS
names of the saloonkeeping class OF
old gave way to those with a foreign
flavor. Even with the one-tlme saloon
keepers names and the white slavers
and dOpers considered, it was found
that out of the SCI there were 22S
whose cognomens indicated that they
were of that class frequently referred
to by the high tariff champion as "the
pauper labor of Europe"
That these names give an adequate
cross-sectional view of the bootleg
ging world there can be no doubt To
account for so many foreigners being
arrested, it is a favorite argument Of
the booze champion 70 intimate that
they are simply the small fry and that
the bigger fellows" or what may be
called "the American ViOlators" are
being protected.
AS a matter of fact, however, it is
apparent that many of those who have
been tried and convicted or who final
ly pleaded guilty were of the very
class which seeks, and frequently
finds, protection for other profitable
forms of law violation. Furthermore,
it is evident that if they were unable
to get any protection" which safe
guarded others, it was all they lacked,
for they appeared in court with high
priced and experienced criminal law
yers, and awaited themselves to the
last of every possible legal subterfuge
that offered escape from punishment.
Lowest Glasses Take to 1t
While the names carried on the rec
ords offer tangible evidence that boot
Logging, in all its gradatiOns from
making to dispensing, is falling into
the hands of men and women who
have nothing in common with native
American aspirations-whO Turn to
this trade simply because it is con-
trary to law and therefore highly pro-
fitable-one who attends the hearings
before the United States commission
ers, at which the defendants are
bound over, comes away with the dis
tinct impression that the liquor traffic
is in the hands of two classes, the
alien and the lowest type of humanity.
In the old days, when the law was
new, the defendants of the saloOnkeep-
er and bartender fraternity appeared
worried. Despite the nature of their
business they had achieved form Of
neighborhood standing, almost akin
to dignity. They were willing to vio-
late the law if they could get away
with it, but if they were to be sent to
Jail, or even subjected to a heavy fine,
and thus left with the brand of gov
eminent punishment upon them, they
didn't want to have any part in the
undertaking. So they were nervous
and fearful until they could get out
Not Alarmed Over Arrests
But nowadays the scenes are differ
ent. Some of the men and women who
are brought in for running stills or
selling liquor are resigned looking in
dividuals, who have a great deal of
trouble in giving the proper arrange
ment of the consonants that go to
make up their names and seem to feel
that being arrested and brought into
court is all part of the days work
that after awhile they will propitiate
this government which frownc on liq-
uOr selling by spending<a few days in
Jail or paying fine, and then they
will go back to business as usual.
These are the foreigners.
Others can be set down as plain en-
emies of society. They swagger into
court sullenly, whisper their crafty
suggestions to their lawyers from time
to time, and plainly indicate that they
are matching their cunning against
the nations judicial machinery. Most
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