Show V oj it t i S Swatting Liquor Traffic l i V FEDERAL FEDERAL dry forces struck at the very k root of prohibition evils in their cleanup a and ld sensational revelations in Park City over the sT-the thc week The arrest of W. W R. R former deputy sheriff of S Summit county f charged v with taking protection mon money y from N dry law violators and the drive on big booze plants there the constitute a genuine honest blow at the real sources of prohibitions prohibition's greatest great reat eat eat- V cst est abuses buses Its It's far different from little V meaningless raids on small booze sellers It V V looks more as though the federal d dry y authorities au- au V V here meant business s VV V VV The 5 information given George A. A Goates V V deputy prohibition administrator tor of Utah that V I was receiving a year for fore his V V promises of protection to liquor sellers is an alarming expose of the kind of conditions that have grown up throughout hout the country According to officers who kept under S 'S V t jf surveillance for a month lh the former fornier deputy V V sheriff V went to the various sellers of liquor near near r the t e I of each month the mining v r. r rV camps camp's payday and obtained sums up to 75 75 4 each cach under threats of having their places places' raided and closed J is said to have claimed that he lie was making a way three-way cut cutin cutin V I in his bribes third one third one to the sheriff one one- third to federal agents and the rest to tOV himself M Mr Goates' Goates department is to be commended com com- 1 V t r mended pir going to the alleged head of fla- fla laV la- la V i 1 grant taking bribe-taking in Park City V A condi- condi V tion there is indicated that calls f for r further and searching investigation Its It's to be expected ex- ex C that the fight on the bad situation VV V has only begun Whatever is proved about a foul condition is indicated with I other arrests likely needed V V j R Raids ids in Park City netted four other arV arrests ar- ar V rests 1 1500 gallons of liquor and some sonic stills V Thus Tius the Utah dry forces struck at alleged V big big fellows in the bootlegging business t rather than taking potshots at the little sellers along along- the sidelines V i V Good Park City residents will be chagrined at the notoriety ty given their city by the drive V V against a bad situation But this may be bev v f said in behalf of the splendid splendid mining community community com com- V Corrupt conditions such as are arc 1 charged there are ie rampant in virtually every v section of the e country Such flagrant abuses of the prohibition law are a disgrace to all V law hv enforcement agencies Its It's common knowledge that graft is corrupting the prosecution prose- prose i f cution of liquor cases almost everywhere Officials Of- Of V are taking protection money in vast V sums The grafting officials are the greatest great- great V v V est menace to law and order that there is V 1 C today ay in America They are far w v worse than V t the e out-and-out out bootleggers s. s If If Mr Goates V V f and his aid aides s will concentrate their attack V on all corrupt officialdom an and the big big manufacturers manu manu- f of liquor they will be taking the thet t tonly only really effective line of assault on V prot pro- pro L t hi wrongs |