The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-01-08
PROHIBITION LAWS RAPED BY CROOKED
POLITICS

The Vostead Law passed with the intention of put
ting the saloon of business and helping national
industrial efficiency during the continuation of the world
The intentions OF the then President and Congress mott
waited by great national emergency and acuaed by the high
est motives
No will deny that the wipng of the old saloons
and the power exerted politics by the Brewery and Dsery
interests productive of much good the nation
The country sacrificed millions in license and excise
taxes that the rising generation might have better civic
and moral outlook lite thru the elimination OF the saloon
and the political influence exered in the and cities of
the land
So far SO good.
The major duty of enforcing the Prohibition Law
turned over to the Federal authorities Huge of money
given Governmental agencies for the enforcement of
the law The great questions discussed turnout the land
day Have the results achieved by the enforcement of the
NOead Law justified the tremendous expenditure of the
taxes wrung from the peope2
In most cases the answer is in the negative
Why this failure to enforce law that has been dgn
fed by the backing of amendment to the constitution?
The answer is: Politics.
The entrusted with the enforcement of the Proh
bton law appointed the recommendation of who
stand in with the politicians in power in Washington.
They in appoint agents who are recommended by
the smaller fry politicians. These agents picked from the
lowest strata Of the population They nearly all exbar
tenders released convcs erum runners thus and epoce
and exdepuy shers who thrown of their jobs
by of their personal rascaIity.
Most of the employed today by the Federal Prohi
bon forces should be behind the bars of other p
Is any wonder that the prohibition laws are not en-
forced and that all laws brought into disrepute and
tempt because of the class of picked enforce the Vol
stead Act by INSCRIPTIONS politicians
Eastern Montana has had experiences with this class
OF criminals masqueradng under the high sounding titles of
Government Men, recently. They used for the
purpose of finding evidence of violation of the Prohibition
Law but to frame up who refuse line up with their
bosses,
IN carrying out this nefarious policy, sacred rights
won by the blood Of past generations have been naught
he guarantees against unlawful searches and seizures which
were written into the Magma Chaa the plains of Runny
ede and again into the Constitution in 1916 have been vi
plated by claiming represent the Government Of the
United States
For what purpose
10 dscredit the workers and farmers government of
Sheridan County where the prohibition law more efectua
" enforced than any other county the state or the United
States But the voaors of the fundamental rights for
which past generations of fought and died for are
oed by the forces of crooked politics in other places thew
will ind that Sheridan County will make such illegal practices
DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS and IMPOSSIBLE
From now on, lawbreakers must take their medicine
IN Eastern Montana The fake law enforcers who masquerade
behind the tin stars of the Federal Government or shake down
Nelmeanlng people under the name of the AntSaloon
League will have the masks torn from their faces They will
De made to taste the stern justice of the law and stay within
the Constitution Of the United States