Show 00 LAW HOKUM Heres Here's what ehat hat the bootleggers are talkIng about Ontario CanadIan province has prohibition nearly as severe as on our side of the border But Its It's legal to manufacture liquor for export in Ontario The logical export market of course roune Is our country If It the Canadian hooch Is la export export- exported exported ed by railroad or legitimate steam steam- steam hip hip Its It's easy tor for American prohibition MUon sleuths to seize it at the port portor portor portor or railroad terminal where It en- en en en teis the United States The Ideal arrangement for our bootleggers Is to have the liquor ex- ex exported ex exported ported out of ot Canada by moor mo truck which can be met tact after mid laid midnight night on n a lonesome road and rush rush- rushe rush rush-edi e od across the line Following a n few tew shootings in con con- conr con r with this method the gov gov- government in Ontario made it Illegal to II liquor over oser 0 er the public I except to nearest rail road station or ship dock American bootleggers recently were overjoyed when a brewery brewry In Ontario eon v on an cou court t lc Ie- Ie tl y could be construed as giving It the right to transport liquor over the tho hIgh highways ays by mo mo- motor motor tor or truck for export Howe However er the executive branch of o 0 h the Ontario government promptly telegraphed Its prohibition enforce enforcement ment meat officers on the Detroit rl nt er border to Ignore the judgment and enforce the law al as previously The Ontario gO governments government's stand Is 15 that the court judgment was rendered not upon the merits of ot the case but upon a technicality The average Am American lawyer abo ho thrives on technicalities be out of oC luck In Ontario or any other province Their courts curls are primarily concerned 1 aith the e evident eIdent Ident meaning and Intent or of Iha law lass not aith Jok jokers ra clipped In by blundering or crooked legisla tois such s-such such as omissions omIssion of sHon atton or words whose absence cre cre- cre creates sites ates what vi a e Americans call caB loop loopholes holes There are cases o on record In American court history where the unintentional omission even of or a comma In a contract has bas cost the defendants thousands of ot lAra do the enforce well to It Is all very law strictly but there can be Bucha such uch a thing as common sense even ev n In Incourt court administering a B la lar law accord accord- according Its Ita evident Intent and mean mean- meanIng mean mean-Ing ing lag to tug Ing Instead of ot by crafty haggling over technicalities Theres There's an old saying that a Philadelphia lawyer can find a loop loop- loophole hole bole In any American tow LaW Lawer Lawers Law- Law Lawers ers er who make the 10 laws we take care ot of t that |