Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — Williamsport, the county seat [ARTICLE]

Williamsport, the county seat

of the banner republican county of this, the Tenth congressional district, voted “wet” Monday. Washington tp., in the / ame county, also voted wet. There isn’t even a democfat paper published in Warren county and democrats are so few and far between that they can scarcely find enough in a township to sit on the election boards. Oh! how sincere the Indiana republicans are in their bellowings about wanting everything “dry.”

Down in Tippecanoe county a few days ago nine Greek railroad laborers who had worked hard all week and not being able to speak English or knowing anything about the game laws of Indiana. went hunting on Sunday. Two game wardens swooped down upon them and they were taken to Lafayette where they were soaked S4O each, a total of $360, which they paid from their hard earned savings and Went back to work on the railroad, and, of course, will have a wholesome “respect” for the administration of justice in this country.

The government receipts from internal revenue for the last fiscal year broke’all former records, according to the official report just issued. The totai receipts were $322,526,299.73, .an increase of over $33,500,000 "over last year. Two-thirds of this vast amount was from intoxicating liquors, of which the increase was 5,942,417 gallons in -distilled spirits and about 4.000,000 barrels in fermented liquors, or beer. Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, in the order named, produced the largest amount of distilled spirits during the year, while New York, . Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin led on fermented liquors in the order -named. Illicit distilling has increased in the south especially where prohibitory laws have been enacted, says the report,, and are chiefly in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and 2.488 distilleries were seized and destroyed during the year, as compared with' 1,911 during the previous fiscal year. 4he enormity of this may be appreciated when it is stated that there are but 923 registered distilleries in the ejitire country.