, 1923-08-08
Shoshoni, Wyoming,
August /, 1928.
Cody Enterprise,
Cody, Wyoming.


Cody Enterprise,
Cody, Wyoming.
Dear Editor:
After this lapse of time you ask
me again what my impressions are
as to the effects of prohibition on
the American people.
1t is not my intention to make an
argument for or against prohibition,
if it would prohibit, for in my mind
there is no doubt about the benefits
to be derived, if it could be accom-
plished, but l will attempt to answer
your inquiry as l see it.
First, l would call your attention
to the hypocrites that have developed
from that source.
When we were younger we were
taught that of all the low down dregs
of humanity the hypocrite was the
limit. There might be an excuse for
the thief and liar, but for the hypo-
critic there was no tolerance what
ever, especially amongst the edu-
Gated people of the so-called upper
classes.
It's easy to guard against the wild
eyed, one track fanatic. He at least is
honest. You know right where to
find him all the time, and there are
but few of them. It's true they are
sometimes annoying like coolies or
sand burs between the toes, but they
are not dangerous themselves. It's
the two-faced coyotes, who pose as
reformers and act like horse thieves
that bring the American people into
the contempt of the whole world and
make US laughing stock everywhere.
The effect. of such things make of US
the monkey and the goat. Those two
faced reformers and bum friends of
prohibition are of many classes and
degrees and the subject is used by
them for many purposes. The country
is full of smooth politicians and office
holders who talk SIMULTANEOUSLY of
prohibition, and who have whiskey in
their cellar. There are no end of pro-
hibition workers who are in it only
for the salary and graft and who
could no more live without whiskey
than a baby could without milk.
My observations lead me to be-
lieve that the majority of u repre-
sentative people of all classes in
Washington drink whiskey. The ma
jority of our state legislators drink
whiskey, and u Governors, and
it is a well known fact that most of
our judges and prosecuting attorneys
do the same. OF course they have the
choice of the whiskey hat is captured
and they certainly know how to get
the joy of life out of it. One would
not have thought it possible a few
years ago that a dignified educated
American man, who was qualified,
and was chosen to sit as judge of m
of our Courts would solemnly pre-
side, hear evidence, and convict a
sheep-herder for being found with a
pint of moon in his pocket, fine him
$4,000 and thirty days in Jail, and
then attend and be the leading spirit
at a booze party the same evening.
These are just a few of the things
that prohibition is doing to the
American people.
How childish, inefficient and out
rageous are u rulings in regard to
liquors on foreign ships which enter
the three mile limit, with their liq-
uors locked up and under consular
seal and guarded every moment, when
those foreigners and everyone knows
that the same sort Of stuff is being
landed in the U. s. every day in ship
loads, trainloads and truckloads and
by aeroplanes and in suit cases and
probably through pipelines.
want to ask you. dear Editor, IL It
was the law that no whiskey could be
landed in New York and you were
delegated to enforce that Law and
wanted to do IL, how would you 90
about II? I believe that when you
found u ship with 5000 cases of whis-
key on board tied to a dock, you
would proceed TO take a two-ounce
vial of il for evidence. and pour the
balance right out into the ocean from
the deck of the ship. That would be
good business. But our prohibition
officers know a better way to handle
not only that whiskey but all Of II
that is captured all over the United
States which is to cart II away and
cache il. II is an easy guess as to
what happens to the cache.
A man came to my house with n
sample Of very fine whiskey n few
days ago. He offered TO deliver whis-
key just like the sample for $4,000
per case. Said he had acces sto $50
cases for his district, and that as far
as he knew IL was part of the stuff
captured from n of those English