The Washington times., 1923-11-09
By 81. WINTON WIGLEY,
Special Investigator for LOnday Daily


News.
- Copyright. 1898. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
In this gigantic traffic, with
the prospect of wealth on the one
side and the fear Of ruin and
arrest on the other, dealer, boot
logger, sailor, distributor and re-
taller are often found playing
false to one another. There are
authorizations, swindling, robbing,
piracy and more authorizations.
Some time ago English export
ers learned that the whiskey they
were sending out was badly adul-
terated after it had left England.
They sent out a spy to a certain
center, but received no report
from him. Either he was bun
died away or he was induced to
"come in with the rest" and not
give the game away.
BOotleggers Suspicious.
Bootleggers grew more and more
suspicious in consequence of their
earlier experiences. They were al
ways threatening "gun-play" If any
tricks were played on them. and it
was to protect their interests that
they inundated Nassau with men
like big Red" the American bad
man."
We pay enough for the stuff
without any monkey tricks" said O
know that the liquor is coming to
US they put the price up accordingly.
Everywhere, and especially in Ha.
Vana, there have been attempts to
pass doctored liquor on US, but we
are getting wise now" Sra 49,
Generally speaking, the Nassau
hqHor has a good name, although
experts declare that some Of the
whiskey imported there lately has
been low-grade stuff.
Bought Sea Water.
heard Of one man who was ruined.
He bought cargo Of sea water and
could obtain no redress. Certainly,
after it leaves the dealers the liquor
IL treated abominably, and by the
time 1t reaches the poor, eager, heav-
fly charged American consumer it is
almost unrecogniZable. Its quantity
Il vastly increased, and so is its
value.
Bootleggers are often shockingly
bad judges Of whiskey. They won't
buy anything that has no real
kick" in it.
''I have given them real good stuff
to sample" said one dealer to me,
'iand they turned their noses up at
It. There was q whole crowd of
them. and they said, No kick in this
stuff Then you offer them some
vile mixture and they smack their
lips. What they like best is a glass
Of fish hooks"
A great temptation this to pre-.
pare some Of the cheap, vile hootch
for the American buyers and to
make an even profit.
Nassau Prosperous.
] have been informed that men
from England, who engaged in the
liquor trade. found that the huge
profits enable them to buy a ship
In which to carry their cargo-to
sink the vessel after selling the
liquor to the bootleggers-and to
return as first class passengers on
an Atlantic liner,
Many improvements are in con-
templation-made possible by boot
leggers' money. For housing the
liquor on its way from England
and Scotland through the back door
Of the United States, Nassau mas
been made prosperous, and the tiny
island on which it is built Looms
large in the eyes. Of the world.
A book issued by the Nassau De-
velopment board says: "Since 1913
the finances Of the Government
have largely, owing to the condi-
tons supervening in the United
States early in 1920, undergone a
wonderful improvement, and a
total revenue for the year 1888
Of $4,000 Involving deficit of
E17,000l was converted for the year
1929 into a revenue Of E450 900.
The revenue for 1929 Is estimated
at $4,000 and the accumulated
surplus funds of the colony on