Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 10 | Urges Sentries to Keep Bootleggers out of City

URGES SENTRIES TO 10 KEEP BOOTLEGGERS OUT OF CITY Head of Purity Squad Asks State to Put Guards at I Portals Four men placed at four en entrances entrances entrances en- en trances to Salt Sait Lake could stop nine nine- tenths of the liquor which is smuggled ed into the city This is 15 the statement made II by Brown chief chier of the purity t squad quad at police headquarter headquarters I l suggest sug-sest that the state place guards at al the he points where here automobiles enter the city said Mr Ir Brown Brawn There Is no doubt that most of af the liquor now coming com corn log ing into the city l- l arrives in automobiles mostly from E an Evanston ton Wyo ro After It once ance gets ets into the city there are arc a thousand thou thou- sand different lHer nt routes route for far it to lo take tale to reach the consumer I would suggest that thaL guards be placed in Echo canyon Parleys Parley's canyon canon at the point of or the mountain on th the road load from er endo and that the road from rom Provo be watched The men could be armed with shotguns as Is done In Colerado Colorado Cole Colo rado and each machine could be subjected subjected subjected sub sub- to a thorough h search I r am positive that such a move mO would bring about some startling revelations re and that bootlegging would suddenly de decrease decrease do- do crease as a result r I think there hero would h be he same me startling surprises when the Identity of some of ar the smugglers lers would be revealed The guards could be re relieved relieved re- re every eight elgh t hours The men who ho are now purchasing are men o of means who can af affard afford af- af ford fard to lo pa pay big l prices A drunken man Is rarely found on an the streets of or Salt Lake now and the women of or the underworld underworld underworld under under- world have vanished but bootlegging still occupies our aUr attention In ord order r to lo wholly eliminate the traffic It will ten be te n necessary to stop slop the smuggling With the arrival of summer the automobile smugglers became active o and the they are arc the ones anes who are bringing t tenths nine of ar the bootleg liquor into the state A r review of or the records of ar the courts 0 of Sail Salt Lake reveals rc the fact that the bonds bands ha have hae e been raised In many cases case 0 of liquor violations The rho judges state stale that ir cent sr-cent trials have revealed the fact that the bootleggers bootleggers' profits profile are enormous enormous enormous enor enor- and often rival tho the proceeds of or legitimate saloon business within a third o of or the time The judges state that they realize that the liquor violator could e I I II ily afford to sacrifice a few ew hundred dollars dol del lars to avoid oid appearing for trial and risking a lan long jail sentence and in lit conseqUence consequence consequence con con- I I sequence the they have raised the bonds of at I these theo offenders I I I I i I I I I I