Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — AFTER BUCKET SHOPS. [ARTICLE]

AFTER BUCKET SHOPS.

Government In Earnest In Putting Such Institutions Out of Business. Washington, Miay 6. —The complete suppression of the “bucket shop” business throughout the United States is sought by the department of justice. Prosecutions already started are to be continued with unremitting viligance. “We have a plan to put all the bucket shops out of business, and that, too, without additional legislation by said an official of the department to-day. Just what are. the plans of the government to accomplish this end was not stated, but officials declared the statement was not thoughtlessly made. The cleaning up work in the east already has been systematically begun, and a number of indictments have been returned. More are promised as a result of the investigations by the local grand jury the last few days. After the department is through with the east, operations will be begun at Chicago, and, working from the center, it expects to conduct proceedings in such a manner as to break up any business radiating from that place. That feature of the traffic which includes the sending out of alluring literature, probably will receive the serious attention of the prosecuting officials, in which case the postal laws will be invoked as an instrumentality in its suppression.