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Show MOONSHINERS IN THE MOUNTAINS New York, Sept. 14 A kind word for the Kentucky mooruhiner comes from Judge George 0 Perkins, of Covington. Ky who was on the bench there for 2S years, pi lor to his retirement retire-ment seven years aco. He Is in New York "for business and diversion." "Moonshiners still moonshine In the Kentucky mountain.," he told his in tervlewers on his arrival, "but these prosecutions of them to my mind are largely unnecessary. Besides there Is too great an Inducement to prosecutions prosecu-tions In the shane of fees for clerks and marshals. The whisky made In the mountains i for local use and dis tilled by people who would not buy It. Not a mllon would ever come into competition with the tax-paying whisky. whis-ky. j "What I have seen Justifies mc in the belief that the prosecution of I only the larger and more important makers of mountain whisky . would servo all the euds of the government and save p lot of hardship." |