St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 1, 1920

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A i A i A i ~ a Cantu Vice Haven That Scoffs at \ BOBO POPOL BED DOD DDL DOB DDD DODD DOBPLLD ODIO OO IO PABBA LD DT a id , ( | / : / ‘ , to Beat City Hall Machine Tuesday . i i i i i i a i i ~ —_— i ee i ee eb ee ee ee ee ee ee Months of Prohibition Enforcement: Law in Romantic Lower California Local Federal Official Explains That Many “BIG VOTE MEANS ITS DEFEAT, SMALL ONE VICTORY” satoonists Take Risks on Fines Because They No Longer Pay $900 License Fee—Poison- | ous Wares Vended by Bootleggers. --- _——— i Te ee i i i i a i i a i a Defended by Isolation, Governor Has Ruled Like Sultan and Gained in Wealth From Illicit Dens on American Border. a oD Warns His ort v That, if the decide to seek another term, | would go before } Predicts That. if 45.000 Ballots are : the people on my record and let the people de- | : . ) r ‘ By Clair Kenamore. ) ‘Committee Ring’’ Wins © at 3 cide whether they want me. ‘Now I see that I was} Cast, the Sehmoll Organization { ( ‘ “But I have thought that, if, in time, I should ( ) the scene of a military campaign, if the rulers of Mexico carry through ’ \ £ friends are the ones who are to decide whether } , ’ rs97 | cic are i y y Face Almost. Certain Defeat ana Adee Pains mares a Raps Boyes ys. rears Nae ap Onlv 40,000 or Fewer It Will? said to be wet. Intoxicants are illicitly manufactured, widely distrib: an have } again, ey Nave airead} . , uted and sold without much caution. Most of the decoctions are called Next Spring Even Though Pres- | made up their minds that I can’t have it. 1 sup- Retain Its Grip on the Party _ whisky. Some of them are real whisky, undiluted, and are sold at fabulous Warns of Danger of N@attering ( prices. Most of the real whisky is diluted but still sold at very high prices, . : — ae , ae - ue! \ The “moonshine” imitations are deleterious and dangerous and sometimes | the Election This Fall. Votes for Cireyit Judges. per e { ew > e 3 ? When national prohibition took fturing wine for home consumption eres, with Many Strange) Dias; was overthrown, but be found | By CARLOS F. HURD. °— | would like to be. Of the 22, nine are heads of \ effect Jan’ 16 there were 1023 saloons {and knew something about distilling. tales afloat of the wealth and won-)it best to pretend that his was one } : » . ees PR, departments, including the clerk of the Board of | in St. Louis. About 60 per cent of | When prohibition created a demand ders in the interior. Many an ad-(of the Mexican states. Lower Cali- Te antidote for boss rule in St. Louis was ; es ie eat Bethold and Stan- sear HA ) cae wees: 1 = =ohad been Consul-)the machine will probably win. — ie ’ as | Who the “Ring” Candidates Are. tained through bellboys at most of teaen a fine of not wn Os $500, ley all passed |... ee | General at New\ ‘The machine, with its precinct chairmen and} aie | 7 | ‘the hotels at $20 to $25 a quart. But a second offense is a felony and that way with ts ae - ee AS = York was in ) their assistants, and with the city hall appointees { : . eS ES ae Se , The courthouse ring, which had its nucleus in a | Doctors write whisky prescriptions \the fine may be $2000 and the im- varying fortunes, | Se Sere’ | charge of cus./Who can be depended on to work for the machine) [I iPeee ttc. - ) group of committeemen holding clerical positions | 6. 3 4 pint and druggists fill them /prisonment may be five years. and last of the eu $s sate bie sn 3 fe toms; the man \ slate, will have 1500 workers out on election day, ( : a eel sae (in the courts,, Is trying, as has been told in the ( gor $3 a pint. It costs them $25 for{ “Most of the retailers are saloon ‘Me of adventur- . “om yer # 2 a Ae who built \ Post-Dispatch, to bring about the nomination of ba case of 24 pints. .. ) keepers who have continued.in busi- ers is a dapper ee : # = (1 20.000,000 pesog\ Persons whom they can get out and practically | | the/or three to a precinct. Their votes, and those of) Bite ss same Se 3 4 . ek } ) | & es = | William H. Killoren, Judge Kimmel and E. G. ene Mindocuntes (ness. Some grocers are retailing, littie blond man |» , Pewee cschars. ss | {}] opera house in . a Kas wig cit) Pigg trio who are not} )usually in larger quantities than the pamed Esteban eae ae: eS RS Rata ee Mexico City was ac vely working at the polls, will come to about ( : : ’ P ‘ . i voters in selecting Circuit “Judges,” Koeln said,/Only partly effectual because of the ) ‘The 400 Republican lawyers who voted in the\imadequacy of the enforcement or- {tne ESGe OOS Oh Seer ee ) P ' (Whisky, the alcoholic content of try in his hand Baek > Ways and public , Every Vote Over 40 000 Fateful] : R v ae : ’ “ a « * ’ ae 8 : é i. oo” : af « Y « 7 - ‘Y , » _ even in the days of its greatest pros-\"Twelve Crops of Alfalfa a Year. ) e's of the committee attending the caucuses. ! | from the south of the peninsula to/¢ura) products were equal in value to ‘Cantu was | j S43] army had served:, f head [I can be looking ab Not { | , Peake | suggestion. Of course, the machine candidates} 5° ‘47 28head, so that | can be looking about. Not, ; ; ( Arkansas. ss graduated § from Peete i] under the great | individually will pick up some of this vote, and) ¢Yeryone gets two and a half years’ notice that cn dial « ne re ea se mae pic va Bence Infliction of heavy fines has not )S##ons. He pays for 10 gallons, tes the Mexican Mili- ree SSSee cs j] Diaz in the B00d } in some cases the opposition to the machine can- { he is going to Jose Nis job." | ort as Cra X oy eee | proven a sufficient deterrent. Judge (O@!¥ gets five. Then he adds an equal tary Academy at |* 1 eae old days. Cantu (4g; | : ) . a | : ‘amount of water and has his 10 gal- y : ae 8 RS te Le lk Halen 00 a wilt be scattered among a number of ; ; ' ) «f would like to support Billy’ Killoren, who is) Farris has announced that hereafter, |. gal (other candidates. This is especially the danger as \| Schmoll Lined Up With Goldstein. .|\ my personal friend. But I am supporting the (in new cases, he will imprison those (°07" ‘Raisin Liquor Dang Chepultepec, with honors, and Pres- work according tO (tg Circuit Judges. ’ Bar Association selections throughout, which is who are guilty. | Rea Enforcement of prohibition is dif-/ Raisin whisky is dangerous. It ident Diaz at- COL. ESTEBAN CANTU their various) «But every vote over 40,000 lessens the chance At present, Koeln says, Chairman Schmoll of the only way that ig effective. ‘ ficult here because it lacks the active /8 Made out of the cheapest raisins, Ss . c — aes “ ) We the chairman of the Efficiency paned ; Judge Grimm wNsinterpreted the law, and WAS) rederal law that come under their)@nough Mquor for the day's trade. tion of his province. due to geography /the sea level. Mountains rise All! the nominatian for Public Administrator. & in ia all po ht for & amd}! a McKelvey reversed by a higher court, on tle ground that), tsi.6 Both the St. Louis police and )}Some keep it in bottles the color of and politics. His dominions lie on{round except to the south where’ «But if: the Republican machine succeeds in| or ce ae the alesis we bole to take an active he had decided against the law, that would be @) .ounty officials are co-operating ex-| Which disguises the contents. Most i ' Aap Cpsancate proper objection to him. If he decided accord-) ..yently with the.enforcement offi- of them keep it in tin shakers or This fall,” he said, “the presidential ticket will} ed to sustain ‘Babler, and since he got back from ' | ‘ J the Pacific Ocean and stretch east-)miles' of sand hills keep out the sea.\ nominating and electing its slate this fall, it may‘ _- , . gpg (ops Th . hich feeds this valley )¢; , ~*~) part tn politics. Some may think we ought not). ; ty ‘fol por tain | ward along the southern boundary of e water whic eeds 8 Valley {find in the spring that things have changed a to. But everybody will agree that, if there is) ing to the law, he was simp y going what “)5 \ cers, according to David Nolan, who )Other receptables which are placed the rican State of California. )comes from the Colorado River in the \ great deal. In all probability it will be very dif- | ns job at the cit hall whose holier should keep; oath pf office requinm him to do. The objec-- is in charge of the enforcement squad ( near the sink under the bar, where ‘The valuable portion is in truth only {United States, but before it is turned ) ficult to elect a Republican ticket in the ‘spring ) siiihabn ache“ oanetien 1 a ‘enelel elmieeiin ant tion, if any, should apply to the law and not tO()... while Chief Enforcement Qffi-)!t cam be toppled oyer if there is a a thin fringe along the American bor- } into the irrigation ditches, it goe8(if the present machine is in control. tac meristence acai ee ‘ (the Judge.” )cer Frank T. Diggs is away on a va- (raid, permitting the evidence to flow | = ' ; : (into the sewer. “The Republican City Committee doesn't. seem ) e Koeln is supporting John W. Dunn, — DIS { cation. | - / chief deputy, for City Treasurer. He be eves ) gino . ) When a still is located it ts raid- ; | | nists Take Chances. : Asks What Machine Really Wants. |) Dunn is the sort of candidate who, if nominated)", cont of the St. Louls)®? Md seized, together with what- | ' 7 . is fall, will{ >” bia a and elected on the Republican ticket this fall, w ealgons are etili open,” eaid Nolan, | °¥¢? liquor or mash is found on the ; i ~ ; n, 4 f . - stand being pointed to, in the spring campaig “and 50 per cent of them are violat- | Premises If distillation is not com as a sample of the goods the party has to de-| is the law. “but they are not fool-) Plete it is finished by Nolan, who : has in a corner of his office the only miles southward in the Imperial Val- {fornia and is turned back from there. to have meetings any more,” Koeln continued. } ley. The peninsula of Lower Cali-}The southern end of the valley is mo My am a member, though I tried to get off the { fornia is more than 700 miles long, \higher in altitude. Engineering dif-)/committee once. But it’s not taking up any of} but only the northern half of -it be- ficulties make it almost impossible my jithe at present. Instead of meetings of the’ ‘And his pretext for going into politics is that\ longs to Cantu and he has not the(to deliver the water to the valley )committee, at the regular place, there are cau-:| Joe Thomas is a member of the city committee | " Feast interest in the southern half. {farms and ranches over an all-Amer-(cuses in Nat Goldstein's office and elsewhefe. I) and head of a department of the city government | liver. «ag-\ ing the Government. We are getting ) As- | , legal still in St. Louls. The complet- “Look at Dunn's record,” Koeln said _)around to them and getting the evi-, tion is that, to come, as it did come, from the( sistant City Treasurer, then taken from the city poke a ee eed aemeteiiiie them (¢4 distillation is held as evid 4 } ‘a F surer | ‘ ( ee | hall to the World's. Paty, to: 50 Saas }as fast as our limited force will per- How Cases Are Made “Does the machine really want to have the; and auditor of the exposition company—without ‘mit. If we had more men we could | Cases are made against saloon its, no wheeled vehicle ever passed Valley now and in 1918 its agricul- his last term as Collector. That is interesting. principle established that no one can be on the} bond, by the way. Then handling city money wah jo bran buat keepers by sending a man te purchase I have been in this office since 1909, and my) city committee and on the city payroll at the; years in this office. Who would think of com- ) steaecumuaniiiins teres to easel ond ta ae he gets it he gives & ole the north. The middie stretches '+).. interest on $500,000,000. So rich /Present term runs until 1923. I haven't thought; same time’ Look at the list. Twenty-two of the ) paring Tony Sepnier, me gg ragga ie af there are times when it is greatly)nal as he emerges and the place is “* hold only cactus and shifting sand is the land and so strong the sun it was time yet to decide whether I wanted an-{ 28 committeemen are on the city payroll, and ( Deputy City Marshal, with him in the matter 0 ‘diminished, so far as St. Louis is immediately raided, the proprietor Tas Gand See ene andjeo siren the oun) te arm or not } at least two more, Frank Slater and E. E. Butler, |training and qualifications’ = concerned, by the assignment of menjand everybody connected with the 7 ies —— ) to out-of-town work. Maybe we have! place arrested and the liquors seized In all the 350 years of its history, )ican route. ) understand they claim to have 24 of the 28 mem-({ at the same time. Now, what kind of an objec-) Perity a century and a half ago, when) yore than 50,000 people lve in} “The caucus took up my case Tuesday, I am the territory was ruled by the Jesu-/+), american end of the Imperial)told, and the decision was that Koeln is serving >; ou = -_---- oo res —_— ————— me " nae = -— —— _ -_- —_——_——s oe -_—-=- — — attack Cantu from the south unless 12 crops a year of alfalfa have been } 7 7 eee tee ee ee | ) | C oe comes by air. . (harvested. The principal crop is nds Page protested so strongly against } to all the vices, sins and weaknesses { could be seen many of the 7000 Chi- ) addicts, morphine a case, say, at Kirksville, which re-\as evidence. ve of > od ". ‘for attack nor transports to carry)country’s early | | Ot) eat 2 The agreement with Cantu provides) Beyers, a sad-looking New England-{ Mexicans, Japanese, Englishmen, and ? “ Dp by this isolation from his { broke. “ghd Mexico so far has neither navy {of stuff is grown. Nearly all Navy No Menace. ‘¢igland cotton, the highest-priced cot- {our Federal Government permitting (of mankind, and the capital, Mexicali,| nese who live in Lower California, | takers, who oom get their —_ in | gutres aie detiptenn ‘of two in” oe ) Bootleggers are eagtuted as ee. a the west is the Pacific Ocean, \ton in the world, but a great variety )Carranza to send troops through the){s the center. When I was in Mex-/turbaned Mussulmans from India, ) Cantu s country without let or may take them three or four days or |ing out a “stool pigeon,” who makes the | United States to attack Cantu, weary /icali last in 1917, the Tecolate gam- (brought across the ocean to pick cot- { hindrance, if they only had the price. ja week. There are times when we arrangements to get liquor at a ren- bling house conducted by “Booze” )ton, American negroes and whites, | Raw opium was brought from China ihave only two men available for (dezvous. Officers are there when the cantaloupes come 48 they were of Cantu and his works. ' . On the east is the Gulf of( from there. refined in Ensenada. United; so. s+ Louis. | ‘tryst is kept and the bootlegser » . a lazy sea always seem- Yet Cantu, the Ishmael of his race, that land on his side of the line may (er, paid $15,000 a month to Cantu for) Scots, Frenchmen, Germans and na- States cumanse on came et “We are giving the most of our at- (arrested with the goods on him. & to be asleep, and a few miles of {the last of the Centificos, holds this have half of the water. This has)the privilege of doing business. On i tives of Thebes and Mesopotamia, but dollars’ wort pert. ann ti )tention to the stills, partly because / Abuse of the prescription privilege Sonora border. Behind this So-| valley, its prospe@ity and not only caused thousands of acres of he |b nights there were 56 games of } the majority always Americans. i the border, waiting to ‘ smuss ‘they are the source of supply and be- | is limited only by the good faith of | border are leagues of desert the wealth, but the very lives, of the {Mexican Ignd to be leased by Ameri-jall kind running and the bar, 160; There is but one entrance to the { yrs: ea bi Chinese {on they can be easily moved. We)the physician and the number ot which men cannot march: {people in the hollow of his hand. Fox) ©4" cotton growers. On this cotton ( feet from tip to tip, was tended by} Tecolate, and that is through the} In the rear room ~ hth acaamiaael may know that a retailer is selling | prescription blanks issued to him ‘the valley of the Colorado River,)he controls the water. He could in Cantu takes a profit from start to\12 bar men. The dancehall girls/front door of the big hall. The mi-) store I was shown what was 2 pares but he is tn an established lo-) under his permit. Each physician is nish. His father-in-law, ‘Frederico )numbered more than a hundred, it! nor allied activities of the place are )t® be the finest collection in ©) cation and cannot elude us by mov- permitted to have six quarts of tu, controls the cotton ginning, the (was said, and they came from the)j{n a big compound behind, which can } world of egrets, also waiting the (ing and we can get him any time that, whisky tn his office for uge to hip profit producer of all. \four quarters of the world, but most- only be entered from the hall. In the) ¥yers who would try to smuggle). want him, so we let him alone) practice. He can write 400 ) * of Vice Flourish. {ly from the United States. Californi- eompoutid I saw some 50 men, some { them into this country. \and go after the still, which today fs\tions a year, cach calling for a | Tia Juana, a pleasure town, cdters/)\n one place and tomorrow may be in)of liquor, which siust Jast the )ans told weird tales of the numbers (talking and laughing, some, sleeping, } They (to Americans on the coast, especially {another place. | tient for 10 days. most of which has sukk into the {a night blow up the flimsy dikes I doubt if any capable Mex-\ which hold the river between them General would try to lead an/and turn it toward the Gulf of Cali- | bigest y across that dreary: stretch to \fornia, or waste it over the land, All Cantu. On the north is the/ washing out crops and roads and; If Can nfined himself to ited Gtates in general and the‘ making the valley a desolation until) these fairly respectable means of de- {Of American women and-girls Who)some sitting gloomily alone. ate’ of California in particular. they were rebuilt, and that cost mil-)riving revenue, there would have {had drifted across the line and been (were pallid, ghastly looking persons, ,of San Diego and Los Angeles. Ithas; “The majority of ‘the illicit manu-) The physician's: directions are w pere is where politics comes in. lions of dollars the last time they {been little complaint against him,)lost to sight in the gray land to the/\in the clouds or in the depths, and/sambling, saloons apd other tinsel (facturers are foreigners, with Itallans(ten on tlie label. “Teaspoonful woe . places of entertainment, but the seri-\ predominating. Before prohibition } needed” is the \ Socme efe | but he did not. There are fostered in (southward. some were well dressed and some were ¢ nt. , Cantu set up for him- That shows why the people of Cal- | his dominions enterprises which cater Among the gatrons of the Tecolate)|nearly in rags. They werethe opium’ #$§Continucd on Page Twelve. these were acctistomed to manufac- Continued on a 4