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Show I RUBE MAYORS NOTSO SLOW They Pinch Big City Eoot-leggers Eoot-leggers and Villages Wax Rich, by NATO GRTJTB 'Copyright, 1922. by Tho Standard-Kxaniintfr) Standard-Kxaniintfr) CINCINNATI .Ohio. 7 lec. The worm has turned, In this case, 1 1 1 worm being the Clnclun atl proprietors of "aoft drink" establishments In Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. They organised today to resist re-sist the Increasing tax on their pocket-books pocket-books by raiding country magistrates. These have been in the habit of sand-' sand-' lngr deputies Into Cincinnati to find violations of the anti-liquor laws. ' When the discovery' is made .the of fenders have then been dra ,- d into tho courts and tines imposed Throughout Hamilton county. It was revealed today, magistrates have engaged en-gaged in this lucrative bualne From ihclr little courts In such villages as Mil ford. Lovoland, Terrace Park, Montgomery and North Bend, they! send their representatives Into the city from which they seldom return em-j pty. So great a pest have they become be-come that no soft drink proprietor nowadays s .s his front door open that visions of a raid do not come before be-fore him. RICH ON F1M s Statistics compiled at Columbus indicate in-dicate tho lucrative nature of this business. Take tho village of Miifoid, Situated on the line dividing Haniil- j ton and Clermont counties it enjoys peculiar natural advantages. Should Mayor Scott desire to augment tho town's revenues ho moves his chair across the room and secures Hamilton Hamil-ton county Jurisdiction. As Judge 01 the police court in this village I 1800 peoplo he last year imposed fines on Iwquur viuuiiuis luiuiunji i jo.uuu, ui i exclusive of costs which are added to ft'hlch $58,000 was collected. This le I his expenses and that ol the constable. con-stable. Most of the money came from Cincinnati cafe proprietors whu huvo been caught in possession o intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor. As a result of the windfall represented repre-sented by the constant flow of funds into the coffers as the result ol liquor raids the villages which have embai Iced Ic-ed in tne new enterprise rc enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Streets that were formerly mere ruts are now ' U bravely paved thoroughfares, while aj town halls put on airs in fresh coats of paint and other village adjuncts hOWfl similar evidence of opulence. CITY LdSKS OUT Tho convicted men tay that they 1 uould not caro bo much u Cincinnati, the city which supports their Industry were getting the fines, Lut they do bate to see the money gulng to '"hicK burgs." that arc abundantly fortilied with hard cider and white. mule. It Is that feeling of resentment rath-f rath-f t-r tlian any hope of being able to es cape regulations, that has prompted ' organization. The new outiit is called the Hamilton County Protective-league. Protective-league. The league has 234 mem- i bers. all of them proprietors of sou drink cafes and restaurants. They i have engaged counsel, John 13. Mol- Joy. former judge of the Cincinnati 1 police court, and announce that they I will combat in tho courts to the last technical ditch, every raid upon any of their members pulled off by a county magistrato. if we must bo pinched, we insist upon being pinched in Cincinnati, vhere the fines imposed will do tho city some good in its present poverty, stricken condition," is the motto of the league. Restriction of the Issuance of search warrants is one of the things for which the league is to fight, nccord-ing nccord-ing to its constitution. The organization organiza-tion Will try to have laws passed making mak-ing it much more difficult than now to search one' home or place of business, busi-ness, it will ask that search warrants , shall bo decreed void unless served within 24 hours after Issuance. It will also ask for tho repeal ui lav.-.s authorizing author-izing mayors and other magistrates 1 to try cases from Jurisdiction other than thoso of their own municipalities or townships and for a law requiring that dry officers shall be residents and electors of tho township in which they serve. |