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75TH YEAR.
fHe
ST.
CROUIX AVIS
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CRIME
WAVE IN U.
S.
LAID TO
.
‘DRY’ LLAWS.
The
Association
Opposed
to
National
Prohioition,
in
a
statement
issued
last
pighil, charges
thal
On
account
of nation-
ai probibition’ there
has
been
a startling
increase
in crime
and lawlessness
all over
the
United States,
together
with
a wide-
spread
inability or
unwillingness
to
en-
force
the
taw.
“‘Prohibition,”’
says
the
association,
"‘ls breedinz
a
dangerow.
contempt
for.
the law in »very state,
and
is
yielding
a
ghastly
harvest
of
crime
and
disease,
while the ‘bootlegger’ has
within the last
six months
develoved
the
status
of a
na
tional institution.”’
'
‘‘lnvestigations
reveal
that the
drink-
ers
of six montns
ago
are
the drinkers
of
today.
The
big aiiference
is that they
re
now
not only
drinkers
but
lawbreakers
as
well.
Unabie
to
obtaiv liquor of
the
usual standards,
they
are
now. drinking
moonshine
whisky,
various
wood aleohol
mixtures
with their
menace
of
almost
instant
blindness,
hair
tonies,
liniments,
patent
medicines
and
everything
that
h 'ds
the percentage
of alcohol necessary
for he ‘kick.’
|
““The number
of drug addicts
has alarn¥-
ingly increased.
“In Michigan the increase
in crime has
made itself manifest
in over-croWded
con-
ditions. in
the
jails.
In Detroit the
au-
rhorities
state
that the prisons
are
inade-
guate,
and that there are
more criminals
in the state
than all of the prisons
in the
Northern states
eould hold
The House
of
{orrcetion
in Detroit
has
become
so
inadequate
that it has been
necessary
to
build an
annex
to it.
A few days
ago 248
. risoners
were arraigned
before a Detroit
judge.
!
.
CHRISTHANSTED.
V.l U.S.
A.,
MONDAY
Iێrs
AUGUST
1920
Results
:in
Ilhinois.
“‘Prohibition has
worked
no
bw~tter
in
illinois.
Discussing
exaet
statistics
of
crime
“he Chice.go police state
that since
Juiv 1,
when war-time
prohibit
on
went
into
effect,
crime
has
inccreased
46
per
cent
over
ihe
same
period last
year.
In
a recent
month
of §919
there
was 58
per
cent
more
crime
than
in the
same
month
of 1918.
During the first
month
of
war-
time proh'bition
erime
increased
100 per
cent
over
the same
month of the previous
year.
‘
"‘Kansas,
since
war
time
prohibition
went into effect,
has
held
a dovbtful hon-
or,
that of having the
largest
number
of
drug addiets
in preporticn
to
population
of any jtate in
the
Uni
n
aceording
to
United
States
Senator
France
of
Mary-
land.
“*Staid
New England
has
fared
litt.e
better
than the other
states
of the Union.
Reports
from the
police
of the
principal
eities
of Connecticiit
state
that
drunken-
ness
has
vastly increased
with the
com-
ing of prohibition.
This drunkenness
is
not
due,
accordinz
to
the police,
to
the
use of
whiskey,
but
of such
dangerous
liquids
as
wood
al'cohol,
eolcgne,
horse
liniment and
Jamaica
ginger.
Bootlegging
Is General.
“*Revenue officers report
that
there
are
at the
lowest estimate
two thousand
iili-
cit-
distilleries
in
Oklahoma.
Some
of
them
manufacture
‘Choctaw
beer
based
on
an old Indian drink, where
there
is in
addition
a
dozen similar drinks,
some
of
which
have caused
death.
“In
West
Virginia
within
a
month,
revenue
officers tound
thirty stills.. Some
$15,000
worth
of
whiskey
was
found
buried
in a garden.
-
“In
Alabama
near
Mobile, one of
the
largest
raids
of
the
South
w@as
recently
conducted
by
revenue
men.
Over
1,500
gallons
of
beer
.and
2,000
gallons
of
whiskey
and
two
stills
of
240
gallons
capacity
were
seized.
Two
stills,
one
warm from the operating,
were found
in
the basement
ofthe
new postoffice
build-
inrg in Birmingham,
now
under
construe-
tion.
-
““In Tennessee.
Federal
officem
are
finding that moonshiners
and bootleggers
are infesting
the Mississippi River,
oper-
ating ‘rom boats.
The
officers are
using
armoured
cars
v ith which
to patrol
the
river.
-
:
Prices
Still Searing.
-
:
““In Georgia
the
prices
obtained
#or
illicit liquor are
so
large that
many
stills
are
operating
in
that
state,
and
daily
raids
are
reported.
Near
Atlanta
re-
0.
TeS
cently
six stills of
large capacity,
7,000
ibs.
of sugar,
1,600 galions
of beer
and
200
gallons of whiskey
were
seized.
" In
this
raid
twelve
moonshiners
were
cap
tured,
while
one
was killed.
“In New York five agents
of the
De-
partment
of Justice
were
indicted
on
a
charge
of
permitting
liquor
to
be
sold
whilg.it was charged
that
a
ring has
col-
lected
$500,000
for permitiing
violations
of
the
law.
One
man
arrested
was-a
volunteer
Federal
agent
who had asserted
that
he was
a person
of wea'th
interest
ed in the enforcement
ot prohibition.
-
“Raids
are
common
in
cities.
Four
stills
werc recently
discovered
in
Gary,
Ind..
and anotherin Boston
with
a
ca-
pacity
of 600 gallons
a day.
In Dayton,
Ohio, aurhorities
‘iscoveced,
in raiding
a
still,
a
cache
of
many
rifles,
revolvers,
army cartridge
belts
and
200 rounds
of
ammunition.
S'Government
reports
on
the
subject
state
that
since
the going
into effect
of
War-time
prohibition
more
than
25,000
Illicit stitis
have
been
put into
successful
operation
ove-
rthe
country,
some
of
which
had
daily
capacities
as
high
as
500 gallons.
[n Virginia
the
outrazes
upon
peeper
ty,,
persons,
common.decency,
and
even
life itse!f,
perpetrated
in the
name
of
prohibitiony bred
a
scandal
which
echoed
thru-
the
whole
eountry.
The
Anti
Saloon League,
in
control
of
the
enforce-
ment
machine,
distributed
the
well -paid
Jobs,
like
so many
meal
tickets,
among
its
zealous
agents.
New
York Tribune,
Sunday
Nov
2srd.
NOTICE-
-
1s hereby
made
known
that
the
Colonial Council’s Ordinary
Meet-
ing which
was
fixed for Monday,
August 16, has,
by
consent
of Gov-
ernment,
been
postponed
to
MOIN-
DAY AUGUST 23rD,
at one o’clock
PlO,
folonial - Codncil
Office,
5S¢
PELN
Aagust
12,
1920.
g
O TER,
i
Vace-Chairnwen
3
.
For good appetiteand
A
rls
®
gooca
digestion
use
L
.
Dr. Ross’
Life Pills.
Readers, No. 20-17.