AMERICAN PROHIBITION
BRIBER? RAMPART
STATEMENT BY HIGH OFFICIALS,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
WASHINGTON, September 9. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Mr Bowman), who is in charge of the Federal enforcement of Prohibition, issued a statement that there arc many incompetent and crooked men in the Prohibition service. Bribery is rampant, and there are many wolves in sheep's clothing. “Wo are after them,’’ he says. “ Some days my arm gets tired signing orders of dismissal. I want to say, however, that there are a lot of splendid, fearless men in the service. Fortunately they greatly outnumber the crooks. It would bo ridiculous to claim that thus far Prohibition is a complete success, but the great mass of Americans do ■ not drink liquor. There are two fringes of society who are hunting for booze. They are the so-called ‘upper crust’ and the ‘down and outs’ in the slums. They are dying off fast from poison hooch. If the American can be made sober'and temnerate in fifty years a good job will have been done.’’
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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172AMERICAN PROHIBITION Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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