Word: illicitness
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Enforcement, however, appears to rest entirely with the Republican police Commissioner, the Republican Licensing Board, the Republican District Attorney and the Republican judges, who have been saddled on the city, and continue to pour illicit beverages down the unwilling throats of the populace. It would probably be immoral to commend all these Republican functionaries for their generosity in allowing Democratic Boston to be supplied; it is tolerably safe to condemn their iniquity in foisting the Republican bootleggers upon a reluctant Democracy...
...responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are regarded as merely one continuous "gold coast...
Unfortunately in America the genial spirit or the pricking conscience appears to be lacking. On last Wednesday, for instance, Dr. Frederick Cook, who discovered the North Pole a few degrees south, had to be forcibly divorced of practically twelve thousand dollars in income tax due on capitol collected for illicit oil speculation. And Washington made known that similar steps are about to be taken against a bootleg ring which has obstinately kept its returns close. If this raid is successful the plum which falls ought to be large enough to pay for a soldiers bonus and deepen every indentation...
...state police in Pennsylvania. I have 1,522 officers to enforce prohibition in 48 states and three territories. Eighty-six of my men are in Pennsylvania. In two years and two months they reported 7,142 violations, secured 1,434 convictions, revoked 336 permits, seized 2,425 illicit distilleries, secured fines of $304,064, collected tax penalties of $837,423. What more can you ask in the way of earnest effort...
...recent raid by dry agents in Philadelphia some of the bottles bore [Secretary Andrew W.] Mellon's name. Think of it, a man who holds one of the most honored places in the Federal Government indulging in the illicit liquor traffic...