Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — Irish Polios Hunt Illegal Stills. [ARTICLE]

Irish Polios Hunt Illegal Stills.

Enormously increased prices of spirits In Ireland, due to the heavy taxation on them, have led to the widespread manufacture of poteen, a very strong home-made product' that dodges the exciseman. The police hunt for Illegal stills, like all other normal police activities, has been ham pered hy the fact that the chief Joh of the Irish police has been to protect themselves from attack. So the Sinn Felners who have taken over the task of punishing thieves have added to their function the capture of illegal still.