Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1909 — GIVE BIG ORDERS FOR CIGARETTES [ARTICLE]

GIVE BIG ORDERS FOR CIGARETTES

Dealers In Indiana to Have Window Displays. ' CONTRABAND FOUR YEARS In Violation of Law Repealed by the Last Legislature Over SIOO,OOO Worth Is the Estimate of the Quantity of Prohibited Goods Handled by Indianapolis Jobbers In 1908—Oscar A. Baker’s Four Years of Exile In Europe Were Put In on Account of Regulation Which In Two Weeks Will Be Nullified. Indianapolis, April 2.—A few hours after Governor Marshall announces, about two weeks from now, that the recent legislature’s repeal of the anticigarette law Is in force the business streets of Indianapolis and the smaller cities and towns of Indiana will blossom with gorgeous window displays of a luxury contraband in this state for the last four years. And if “Cigarette" (Oscar A.) Baker, who is due in New York from Europe this week, returns to visit his family and friends in Indiana he no doubt sigh over the futility of his four years of exile, under the lately revoked $3,000 reward for his capture, offered by the same legislature that passed the anti-cigarette bill. Baker, as an agent of the so-called tobacco trust, was charged with attempting to buy votes against the antlclgarette bill. While the secret sale of cigarettes has been continued in Indiana, it Is said by jobbers of Indianapolis that enormously increased orders now are being sent to the factories. In violation of law it Is computed that SIOO,OOO worth of cigarettes were sold by Indianapolis jobbers last year.