The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1931-04-01

who feel that sop must be thrown to
public opinion, but who propose to
manipulate it in such a way that the
moral wave will have spent its force
before the season for summer visitors
opens
And along the same line an editorial Of
January 8, 1900, scores the police officials
who are blind to violations of law which
everyone else plainly sees. The Ne1oS sayss
Both Father Sheppard and Judge
Fort call attention TO a we'll known
phenomena that has puzzled scientists
of all ages namely that the officers
selected to detect and suppress VIOLA
tions of the law are often the last to
learn that it is being violated.
A saloon can 40 busy Sidedoor trdde
al Dag on Sunday but the policeman
on the beat would never suspect that
anything of the kind was going on.
RESOURCEFUL IN LAWBREAKING
And here is a revelation of how the beer
bottlers and the liquor dealers of Glou-
ceSter county organized liquor transport
companies and syndicates and we're oper-
ating in 1909, years before prohibition. An
editorial in the Nelus of July O. 1909 con-
dennis this trick whereby the liquor deal~
ers appear to be able to avoid excise laws
and are enabled to sell and deliver intod-
eating liquor whenever and wherever they
please. The editorial says;
What they have done is to organize
an express company, members of their
own fraternity being the stockholders
and officials. They do not refuse To
carry goods and general merchandise
for other citizens but they do not seek
more patronage than will give them
standing as common carriers. The
most of their business is distributing
beers and liquors
The Ne10S says that this is clearly a SUBJ
terfuge and evasion of the state law and
yet conviction failed because of a technt+
cality. The editorial concludes:
The resourcefulness with which Id
uor dealers invent schemes to evade
the excise laws, however, equitable and.
just the latter may be, is not equaled
by the cunning of men in any other
business or in all other businesses put
together
EXCISE BOARDS SUBSEQUENT TO
LIQUOR MEN
IT an excise board could not do any
better than the Newark excise board
spoken of in the following editorial could
board of liquor control as recommended
by our wet friends, such as prevails in the
province of Ontario or under the Bratt
system in Sweden do any better? In an
editorial Of January 8, 1908, the Ne1oS says,
in speaking Of the Newark excise board:
The administration of the excise de-
partment for the past half dozen years
has been anything but creditable to
the members of the board or the source
from whence they received their power.
Under its regime dives have multi
piled, houses of ill-repute have re-
ceived official sanction and laWbreak-
ing has been given at least tacit ap-
proval. Tt is high time that the
policy Of multiplying saloons for no
other reason than that the brewers
may find an enlarged market for their
product was stopped.
BIG FELLOWS" IMMUNE
Our wet friends tell us that prohibition
officials rarely catch the big fellows" Did
officials do any better in pre-prohibition
days? Evidently not in the neighborhood
If Newark New Jersey, An editorial in
the NeiDS Of July 81, 1905, says:
The filming of seven persons for SELL
Ing liquor at Asbury Park was as gross
a discrimination on the part OF the
county officials Of Monmouth as was
the closing up of the Vailsburgh BIZ
cycle track on Sunday by the Newark
police when the saloons we're permitted