, 1923-05-10
PLENTY OF KICK
IN BONE DRY Law
VIOLATORS OF The PROHIBITION LAWS
COURT GRIEF when They MAKE
OR SELL MOON"

OR SELL MOON"
Violators of the federal and state
prohibition laws do not realize the
danger of ignoring these laws, &C
cording to Captain r. B. Gilbert,
Associate General Counsel of the
A~nti-Saloon League of America. who
addressed a mass meeting held in
Odd Fellows hall last Saturday even
ing.
Captain Gilbert has been fighting
for the cause of prohibition for a long
term of years and being a lawyer
of considerable note he has become
acquainted with no only the federal
prohibition law but also the var
ious dry laws of the several states
and the Interpretation placed on
them by the state supreme courts.
The speaker at last Saturdays
meeting proved himself to be both
ELOQUENT and convincing and it is to
be regretted that there was MOI a
larger crowd present to hear him.
The principal purpose of Captain
Ebbert's visit in this state is to meet
with the various county law enforce
ment officials and to discuss their
problems with them. At these con-
situations, the Captain says, he
makes it a point to impress them
with the fact hat when the district
courts are through with a man the
machinery of the law has but start
ed. The man can be fined or con-
fined to Jail or both and as soon
as he is at liberty the Federal gov
eminent can start to work. With the
same evidence that convicted the
man in the district courts the federal
government can convict him in the
federal courts.
The bootlegger might first be
fined and sentenced to the federal
~penitentiary for violation of the Vol
stead act. Agents from the Internal
Revenue Department might meet him
as he leaves prison and again arrest
him and with the same evidence as
has convicted hin twice before he
might again be found guilty and
forced to pay twice the old liquor
tax plus a five hundred dollar fine
for each sale of liquor or of he has
been caught manufacturing the stuff
he may not only have to pay twice
the amount of what a liquor tax
would have amounted to but in ad-
dition could be fined $1,000. Capt.
Bbbert also pointed out that in adj
dition 70 the grief which could be
dealt the violator there could also
be action taken under the state and
federal abatement laws. He said
that he had known OF a case where
liquor was found being manufac-
tured IN a $50 acre farm and the
man was arrested, taken to jail Ia
serve his sentence and his farm va
Gated for a g under the federal
abatement clause. As a result Of his
meetings with the county attorneys
and sheriffs of Oregon. the speaker
said, the federal government had col
lected more than a million dollars in
fines. h same cooperation between
the government. the state and the
county could easily be had in this
state. Captain Gilbert claimed. once
the county and state officials under
stood the strength behind them In
the machinery provided by the state
and federal prohibition laws. The
machinery Is there and II 1t is used
TO its fullest extent the prohibition
laws VIII RAPIDLY win respect from
the unlawful element of the country
Perhaps the most startling state
ment made by the speaker last Satur.
day evening was when he said.
every man who buys LIQUOR from
nm Illegal vendor can he conyir,ed
In the federal courts of conspiracy
to violate the law. n more serious
offense than the selling OF the li9uor
and may be fined as much ms ton
thousand dollars or given a jaiI sen
tence OF not less than two years or
both"
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