Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-07-17

cent of them have been killed by their
own Gang, not by a rival Gang, its
been by their own, for some double
crossing and holding out on their
bosses
You see they have very elaborate
systems Of checking up on you, the
same as any big business has OF check
ing up on their clerks or employees,
and the minute they discover that you
are not handing over all the loot" or
that you might be dealing with some
rival enterprise, why they what is
called, Put you on the spot" that
means you are sentenced. and II your
last insurance is not paid, it would be
well to look into 1t, for you are mot
going to be with us long,
You see lots of people think that all
this Racketeering and Bootlegging and
corruption is just fly by night affair,
run on slipshod haphazard way. Well
you never were more wrong in your
life. You know as matter of fact
there is nothing as old as crookedness.
1t started away back when Eve used
some political and Sex influence on
poor old Dumb Adam to get him to
enaw on a forbidden Apple. Old Cain
slew Abel, or visa versa, / don't know
which. But anyhow 1t was a argument
over the Spells Meanness has always
been better organized and conducted
than Righteousness So these Lads
here are really of an old and ancient
(and sometimes) honorable profession.
There Is no such thing as little
Bootlegger, no more than there is a
little Banker. The day of the little
Banker in small town is past. He is
a Member of chain. He is subsidi-
airy of some big Concern Well that's
what this is. Then look at an expendi-
ture that none of the other basic COM
modities have to meet, and that is Pro-
lection. Talk about Tariff wall Why
the tariff is only collected by one
party and that's at the port of entry.
But with this there is no end of the
collectors who are there to levy trib-
ute. What percent of the cost of a
bottle, do you think goes to Protectionp
Why say there is more collecting than
there is selling
Another thing, its not SO much that
Chicago is such a terrible drinking
place, but it is the clearing House the
same as they are in the Wheat or
Cattle Market. 1t comes in here from
Canada, by every known conveyance.
Then its made here lots of 1t, and its
cut here. Then it goes to the vari-
Gus branch places for delivery. Well
that's tremendous business, when
you supply America thirst, why you
have been to supplying So this gang
thing is bigger than most people
realize.
Now whats going to be done to stop
en-? Well its as have said off hand
cant think of anything unless the
Towns best people, quit drinking.
These boys couldent get far if nobody
was buying. The demand must be
there to create the market. So that's
all we got to do to stop the whole
thing. 1t don't seem much does it?
NIaby by next week everybody will have
turned decent.
The Senate just sits and waits till
they find out what the President wants
SO they know how to vote against him.
Be good joke on 'em if he didn't
let EN- know. For instance, if he had
announced that he was going to let
the Wickersham committee go and
didn't want any more money voted for
EN-, why they would have voted them
million dollars.
That's the way Mr.. Coolidge used 10
do. He would keep EN- guessing so
long that they voted his way acciden-
tally part of the time.
We are a good-natured bunch of
saps in this country.
When the President is wrong we
charge it to inexperience.
When the tariff is wrong we laugh
1t off.
When Congress is wrong we charge
It to habit.
When The Senate is right we de-
clare national holiday.
When bank fails we let the guy
go start another one.
When enforcement officers can't
capture it fast enough to fill orders,
that's good business.
Everybody is cockeyed, so what's
the use kidding ourselves.
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