Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1914 — RULING SHIELDS LAW VIOLATORS [ARTICLE]

RULING SHIELDS LAW VIOLATORS

Revenue Officers Will Not Tell Who Hold Federal Licenses to 801 l Liquor in Indiana. Is the government in league with liquor interests in the state of Indiana? That is a question that may well be asked from the experience of a gentleman in Royal Center. He had occasion to write to the revenue authorities at Indianapolis to And out about who held liquor licenses in a certain eity and the official in charge wrote back that “we are not allowed to tell, who holds federal liquor license in any locality.” Do you get that? A recent laiw passed by the state of Indiana makes it prima facia evidence to hold a federal liquor license. In other words, the Indiana law is that no other evidence is necessary to prosecute if it is found that a person supposed to he conducting a tiger has a federal liquor license Now you get the point? The idea of a federal officer not being allowed to tell who holds a liquor license in this state contrary to law? If Indiana had a governor ‘like that man in Colorado, no federal officer would be permitted to violate a law. How can a state enforce its laws if the United States officials connive with malefactors? And any man that carries on a business that is against the laws of the state is a malefactor.—Royal Center Record.