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Plgc Sixr-iCURRENT MAGAZINESSAYING ABOUTPROHIBITION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT(CoUicr’9 The National Weekly,May 23 and 30)THE RUM-RUNNER’S NEW ENEMYandAT THE RUM ROW WARBy William G. ShepherdThe newspaper war correspondent seldom has a more thrilling story to report than these acconnts of action on theCoast Guard vessels in the present war against smuggling. “You go to war all right when you go to rum row, says the author, and he knows for he has been in the battles. In fact he says he had a hand in one capture, which he promises to tell about in the next installment.And his fighting blood was roused to see two ships protected by the flags of friendly nations, France and Belgium, conspiring against the laws of the United States by transferring from one of their sihps to the other liquor to be smuggled into our territory.Wet or dry this sight would have made any red-blooded American angry. Yet this conspiracy is going on twenty-four hours a day. The United States Coast Guard, np to the time of this writing, has seized within American waters steamersor schooners flying under the flags of Norway, Italy, France, Great Britain and Costa Rica. Britain is the worst offender; France comes next.It is easy enough out here on the Row, with this spectacle in view, to see how simple it was for Secretary of State Hughes to persuade the British government to sign a treaty that gave America the right to search and seize British rum •hips that came so near our shores thatAmerican automobilists might see the British flag over them. It’s better to have things like this happen far out at sea. Great Britain would not wish Americansto connect Incident ai(The Outlate, May 20. 10’5)THE REPULSE OF THE RUMRUNNERSF.ditorialThe sequel, if it is a sequel, of the war against illicit liquor selling” on Rum Row, is taken up by the Outlook:Rum Row, off New York, is broken up,at least temporarily. Liquor smugglers all along the coast are in distress. The4*dryMon an engagement, if The attack on Rumnot a war. . . .Row was at once grim and spectacular. Great numbers of United States CoastGuard vessels, under command of miral Billard, went into action against lawless craft. It wasa siege at sea. . . . The campaign of starvation soon compelled the rum fleet to disintegrate.One by one the dingy craft of the Row weighed anchor and put to sea. Coast Guard vessels, however, clung to their flanks even in retreat to prevent their making contact with shore elsewhere along the coast. . . . Nobody knows where all of the ships went when they forsook their moorings off New York, but a dispatch from Nova Scotia indicated what they were doing. . . .offered their rum and whisky at bargain rates. . . .But Rum Row is not entirely deserted. Some of the ships hold out against theOthers will come, undoubtedly.Many of those that have gonegive np (tie effort to land theirglaewhere along the coast and some willsucceed. Admiral Billard is far from regarding the war as won.(Collier’s National Weekly, June 6, 1925)A BIG CATCH ON RUM ROWBy William G. Shepherd The promised story is about a single-handed capture of a big rum ship by a Coast Guard captain, John Rccdcr. He was bringing in a captured rum-runner boat, with a Coast Guard seaman guard-the prisoner, when he “smelledmg tne prisoner, booze,” followed the scent to a big vcsesl, where he heard drunken singing. Coming up to it, he signaled the captain to stop, tied his little boat to the big one, ordered his seaman to take his prisoner on board, climbed to the pilot house and ordered the captain to steer for the barge office. Most of the crew were drunk, andthey were allowed to keep on drinking, sothey would not make trouble on the way.The prize was an 8,000 ton ship, with a$400,000 cargo.Catching a big ship by using a rum runner’s boat was a new stunt in theCoast Guard. Within a few days orders were issued in Washington that Coast Guard men would be permitted to use captured rum runners’ boats in the Rum Row war.(The Forum, June, 1925) THE LEOPARD ERABy Carl Drchcr The ingenious author lias here carriedoout cn cxtenso the idea which a certainwet orgnni/ation insinuated two or three years ago by asking people to vote on a ballot which said: “Do you approve of prohibition and the Blue Laws; or do you not approve of prohibition and the Blue Laws?” He has made a lame attempt to ridicule prohibition and other laws for therestraint of predatory commercialism bytelling a la Bellamy, what happened in1%7 when laws were passed requiring every American family to keep one male and one female leopard and by precept and example to make these animals pure and spotless.It is less remarkable thata personshould come forward w ho could let prejudice run so far away with reason than it is that a publisher could he found to give space to such a foolish production.aRead North American RevievThe current number of the North Amiprohibition by leading opponents of the Ei ber number will contain 11 articles discussinthe dry standpoint. Some of the contributiof the controversy are:Horace D. Taft, head master of the T,brother of the Chief Justice of the Suprem representative in Congres and labor leader; kins University; Professor Thomas N. Car\ nelia J. Cannon, essayist and publicist; the the Law Enforcement Commission of the CStates; R. H. Scott of the Reo Motor CoLegal Division of the Prohibition Unit.These arguments will furnish a com which can be, presented by the wets. T should be read by every public official and arrangement with the publishers this qua number, can be secured from the Anti-Saloing postage and addressing, if orders are ri not send it to the leaders in your commu tribute to a fund to do this. Send your or the parties to whom the periodical is to be iment, to the Anti-Saloon League, 30 Bliss rare opportunity for you to do a splendid j
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