Milford chronicle., 1923-02-23

GAMERS STARTED TO MAKE CONTRACTS with
farmers to tomatoes this coming for twelve
dollars per ton but learn that the price has been
changed and they offer SIS ton the basis of
pay for tomatoes delivered at the canneres in this of
Delaware This price to be acceptable to
mers and with fair yield the result should leave them
profit the seasons work in this production.
A NEW YORK COURT has sent four brothers to Jail
for booeggng Three of them got four months each and
the fourth two months. All also fined $4,000 each.
The is remarkable only in the fact that the
actually sent to prison. but because of their social
prominence the distinguished legal talent who represent
ed them and the unique pleas that made in their be-
half The prosecution the result of dinner given by
the brothers at of the most fashionable New York
clubs which liquor flowed freely and the court pro-
ceedngs attended by socially prominent and
women who displayed great emotion when the sentences
were pronounced
A former Assistant United States Attorney General
asked the to limit the sentences to fines because of
the splendid wives and innocent children of the defend
ants The president of the New York Bar Association in
formed the that he had known these four boys and
their father them Another prominent of
the New York bar called the courts attention to the
cent of president Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University the effect that the prohibition
law did not represent the WILL and therefore its
violation not a crime against society.
But the court turned deaf ear to all those specious
pleas. remembered the brothers had pleaded
guilty to releasing 10000 gallons of liquor in direct def
of the law of the land and sentenced them accord
ngy The of the highest order of intelligence
They knew exactly what the law is and their violation
deliberate, wllful and premedated Under the circum
stances their sentences were extremely enent
The United States District Attorney summed up the
when he said To allow these defendants to escape
with fine, it to me- would be travesty justice
and mockery of the majesty Of the law. 1t would an
nounce to the public that the Federal judges were
compaisant the widespread reign of alcoholic anarchy
in New York City 1t would that equality before the
law had disappeared and would justify the belief that men
of great wealth. influence above the law
Judge Francis NJ Winsow the United States District
Court view of the case and the Jail sentences
followed
is prompt and effective action of that sort that will
produce dependable public opinion the enforce
ment of the Eighteenth Amendment Every law liquor and
Others must be applied mpartiay and vigorously to all
in order to bring that respect for constituted authority
without which government endure. After the in
dividuas who defying liquor laws have been
given the Jail sentences repeated oenses justify
the people may note the effect society and determine
whether they wish to large distribution of stronger
If their conclusion is affirmative all they
do is to send to Congress and to the state
legislatures who will record their will in liquor laws
But whatever the law the statute books and however
its restrictions may be- let have enforced
the public may judge of its value