The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-03-08

open anu ldhe d STanQ.
IF we could ever get to tina
place where the enforcement of
icers have public sentiment will
them the matter of drying up the
reservation will be an easy one
Wolf Point, or any other town
could within a very short period
of time eliminate every bottles
joint in the city, provided that
every good citizen got back of the
prohibition law determined that il
be enforced said Mr.. Eggers.
Too often it is the case that the
penalties imposed for the viola
zion of the prohibition law are toe
mild to cause much effect. Mr..
Eggers siad that when Congress
passed the bill putting teeth into
the prohibition law, he heard the
remark: "The small fellow is go
ing to go out of business quick"
He can't afford to take a chance
on getting a five year prison SEN
ShSO vi q 21V,uVO uHt.
The long delay between the
time the cases come up in the
federal court is calculated to make
the punishment seem of little con-
sequence. Fof that reason Mr..
Eggers says that wherever he a
get a liquor law violator to plead
| u1I1lfU m a aiC6n,nnon0 oha,~o
he takes him into the justice
court, where action is more
prompt.
1T has always appeared to me-"
continued Mr.. Eggers, that a man
that violated a law OF the country
was a criminal, and it is mysteri-
Gus why that don't apply to the
prohibition laws as we'll as any
other. If a man goes out on a
reservation and steals a horse, he
is at once branded a horse thief,
but if he peddles bootleg whiskey,
lie apparently loses no caste. The
prohibition laws are all based on
the 18th amendment which is part
of the constitution. l seriously
question the legality of the action
on the part of Montana, one of
the two states in the Union to
repudiate the 18th amendment.
| believe the people of Montana
have a large problem before them.
Young People. Debauched
There r those who say, What
difference does it make if they
do sell some moonshine?' If they
could see the results of the viola
tion of the prohibition act as 1
have, they would not ask that
question. If they could go out to
these country dances and see
beautiful young women made so
intoxicated as the result of the
b~ootlegger's law violation that
they wouldn't know their own
mother, see them led from the
dance hall to the seclusion of some
car, if they could e these things
and hear the stories that are told
me, they wouldn't ask that ques-
ton. l don't care how many are
against me in my work, If | can
help n young nan or one young
woman as the results of my ef-
to keep liquor off the reser-
walton, | shall consider that my
efforts are not in vain. If it was
the old sot alone who was affect
! would go home and rest, and
not bother any more about him.
But it is not the old sot, it is the
young boys and girls who must be
recruited if the liquor business is
TO thrive. 1t is the boys and girls
in this part of the country
more of our young people T af-
fected than ever beforehand we
can't afford to pass the thing up.
# the old soak wants to drink him.
self to death, let him-but if we
are to save the boys and girls
rom a similar fate, it's time to
get busy. Whenever you find a
majority of the good citizens get
ing into the fight, you will find
he b~ootleggers getting out" Mr.. !
1ggers also spoke Of the effect of !
ilot machines and gambling games !
n the young people. {
Sheriff's Hands Tied
Mr.. Marion said that the pro-
libition question affects every :
mans home, every mans children, I
nd one can never tell when it g
will strike his own home. He ex- T
'lained, however, that under the t
xisting laws in Montana the r
heriff's Office had its hands tied, d
1asmuch as it is not allowed any
honey with which to conduct raids Z
+ make trips to make arrests, v
tc. and that the sheriff's salary
Tould not permit him to do very
on his own. n
Rev. Lee Speaks e
The Rev. Geo. c. Lee of gilbert D
on, president of the Roosevelt b
ounty Good Government league "
aid that the meeting came as G
lie fulillment of a prediction O.
as Mr.. Foor had promis- N
/ that if he were elected county IL
he would call such a ii
Ieeting.