Show STOPPING SOCIETY SMUGGLERS A GREAT HOWL has gone up and aud is still going up A A from the toady toad press in the tile east enst Against the great peat injustice done passengers returning I hoer from abroad by searching their baggage for dutiable I goods pods editors say the government looks on every evory traveler taw as asa see a thief because it does not accept his declaration on that he be has baa nothing u thing dutiable as as correct Sad though ou 1 the e confession on may be the ilie customs officials aro are almost justified jus in making the extreme accusation just j cited itei In the December North American Review Seers Secre Secretary tug tary of the Treasury Gage tells something about the theof vat of tho the law Jaw One of his astonishing statements it is that lib his officers are collecting 4 4 at the docks where they collected 1 1 before If this means anything it miens means that a great proportion of the Americans who go tO abroad are guilty of the crime of smuggling It is ia isa isa a crime erime just ju t as much as 88 manufacturing whisky illicitly 7 but who would think of taking the word of a suspected that he lie had no mountain low dew Both classes occupy about aDou the same status Neither looks loob upon tt its nefarious proceeding as a crime The argues that the government has h no right to interfere in with him if he be chooses to work up p his sur surplus surplus plus Pl earn corn into iRto whisky and his extra apples into brandy His fathers before him did it and he holds in all seri eri seriousness son oneness that he should enjoy enjoy the same privilege The hiner is more excusable than the tourist smug smuggler smuggler gler because he is more ignorant nt Still the society woman who has gone to Europe to spend her own or her husbands money on foreign gaws actually convinces herself hers lf that she has the right to lie to customs officials But to go goback goback goback back to Secretary Gage Gap for he quotes figures figur s that are indisputable though almost almo t passing belief He says that a year ago go a steamer landed in New York with wih cabin passengers This was before the baggage inspection Oll law Jaw went into effect and just duty was wu collected at the dock This T ls year the same same steamer brought just cabin passengers rs but the dock duties aggregated after t the e baggage had been inspected the tidy idy sum of Yet in nearly every case the passenger had said he brought t nothing dutiable In one trunk brought over overby overby overby by a dressmaker maker iree who declared she should pay nothing goods of the value of were found and the duty was 1500 Naturally the people who have been most active in the smuggling are loudest in their protests No rogue eer felt tho the halter draw With good od opinion of tie the t e law This old oW maxim comes pretty close to fitting the situation under discussion Secretary Gage is ungallant ungallant lant Jant h to believe that women are more afflicted with the smuggling disease than men He says the lat latter latter ter tel as al a class cIa pay their duties much more cheerfully although althou h there are numberless cases where men have made mad false declarations He tells a story of a man who complained that he had been held down do closely on his last lut trip triphy Why hy he said I had to pay 1000 duty and I never paid a cent before Then Thon he smiled But he added I must say I feel more respectable It is al almost almost almost most worth forth the price not to have the th sneaking sn aking sensa sensation tion tien tio that t d a follow fellow used u edw to have when he landed a ft lot lotof lotof of stuff that t he ought perhaps to have haye paid duty du duon on |