The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-08-17

paid assassin Of the old Turkish
chieftains. He does not care what
he sells, as long as he will get good
money for it.
The moonshiner Of the southern
mountains, who has been with US
even since revolutionary days, was
good deal of sport. He never
made liquor that was rank poison.
He took pride in producing as good
a brand as that sold legitimately by |
licensed dealers. as@ 4
The bootlegger of today is sneaky. |
treacherous and thorOly unreliable,
even with his own customers. He
will sell them anything that he can
find with a "kick'' and does not
care how many it kills, II he only
can get money in return.
No mercy should be shown the
,bOotlegger caught at his demoraliz-
ing trade. He deserves the highest
penalty of the law.
Slight Demand for
Alcoholic "Cures"
Statement of A. H. Briggs.
Calf. Anti-Saloon League.)
"The Kelley Institute has gone
out of business. Mr.. Wallace, in
charge Of the Neal Institute in San
Francisco, reports that in pre-prohi-
bition days there were sixty-five
Neal Institutes for the care OF
alcoholics; sixty in the United States
and five in other countries. Only
two Of the sixty in the United States
are now open, one in Portland and
one in San Fracisco. The institute
in Portland has only an occasional
alcoholic case, being mainly devoted
to general hospital service. The In
stitute in San Francisco has recently
had one or two cases month. These
have been characterized in many
cases by severe poisoning and they
all swear, never again. The opinion
Of drinkers is that any man who now
drinks will sooner or later get some
thing that will knock him out"
Heavier Penalties for
Drunken Autoists
statement of Police Justice Witt.
Spokane, Wash.)
| Gin every case that has come be-
| fore my court, where man has been
found guilty of driving car while
drunk, l have made it an invariable
rule to take away his license and
| impose both a Jail sentense and a
| fine."
| The Indianapolis News comment
ing on this said that the courts, the
motor organizations, the police and
the public are agreed that when the
next legislature meets there must be
an amendment to the present law.
| Changes will be sought thru which
drunken drivers may be sent to jail
i or,,prison and much heavier fines
may be imposed.
Use Of Former
Saloons
! Editorial, Indianapolis News.)
The prediction that hundreds OF
vacant rooms would exist If the
saloons we're forced out of business
is not borne out by the facts shown
by a report in the American Issue
which shows that of the 500 saloons
listed in the Indianapolis directory
in April, 1918, 800 of the rooms are
being occupied by business houses,
and but twenty-five of the rooms are
vacant.
A Fight to the
Finish
Editorial, Phoenix Gazette.)
| The country has entered on a
finish fight, calmly, sanely, and
fully expects casualties from among
the ranks of drinkers of poisonous
moonshine as the fight progresses.
The fight must be carried on until
the demand for booze is eliminated
entirely. During these last days and
years of war there will be supply
of booze, diminishing in proportion
to the demand. 1t is finish fight,
cost what it will.
i NOTE: "The public should know
many things that we are doing and
many facts that we are uncOver1ng
the poisonous nature of the liquor
that the majority of those arrested
are foreigners out of sympathy with
our laws and customs; dangers en-
countered by our agents; and the
fact that the cost of conducting the
department is borne indirectly by
the law violators themselves; or in
other words, we are collecting more
than the department is costing.
j Director Morgan of Indiana.
Prohibition Satisfies
Druggists
(Indiana Pharmacist.)
Some of our friends in the we
states appear to labor under the i'm
preston their people and theil
doctors and dentists absolutely neet
alcoholic liquors to cure disease
Would one of their doctors declar'
himself incompetent to cure diseas'
should he happen to be left in |
desert land like Indiana? W.
! have many good doctors who hav
been doing fairly well we think, ant
. we feel sure the retail druggist i
better satisfied and is making NOR
money than when we had liquor. s.
since the U. S. Pharmacopoea ha
failed to mention liquor as medi
I. cine it is difficult for us to agre
with our "wet state brothers" an
: are satisfied with our present con
g ditions.
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