SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
SEWARD ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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Entered as Second Matter, Septem
ber 2, 1915, at the Post Office at
Seward, Alaska, under Act of March
3, 1879.
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HAZELTINE SPEAKS
ON VOLSTEAD ACT
(Stroller's Weekly).
F. A. Hazeltine, Divisional Chief ot
Prohibition Agents who has been in
Alaska for the past six weeks or more
was a guest 01 the Chamber ot Com- j
merce of Juneau recently and made a
talk which interested the listeners.
Among other things Mr. Hazeltine
said:
"I am here to help raise the price
of so-called ‘good’ booze. Cheap moon
shine and home brew are going to
take care of themselves and those
who drink it. WVle the price of
moonshine and home brew can’t be
expected to advance witn better ad
\ ancement, because the demand is
getting less, those who want alleged
bottled in bond and Scotch stuff seem
to be willing to pay any price and
the price is a fair evidence of the de
gree of enfrocement. The price per
bottle of such stuff in Alaska seems
to range from $10 to $18 which iti over
three times what the real stuff used
tc sell for in saloon days. I submit
tnat the price alone shows a good
degree of enforcement. And then look
at the stuff they are paying such
prices for. I doubt if there is a bot
tle of genuine bottled in bond Ameri
can whiskey in Alaska. It is all well
guarded in warehouses under govern
ment control and the supply is gradu*
ally getting less as it is supposed to
be used only for medicinal purposes.
It is singular how the same man who
wit1 scan every five dollar bill he gets
when there is a report current that
counterfeit five dollar bills are in cir
culation but he will accept counterfeit
liquor on faith if the label or his boo+
legger says it is genuine. In the past
six weeks in Alaska I have seen but
one lot of so-called ‘good’ liquor and
that was taken from Lungren’s shoe
shop and two thirds of that was moon
shine and synthetic liquor misbrand
ed though it was branded as genuine
Scotch. It is a notorious fact that
the Scotch distillers are sending out
for smuggling purposes their new and
raw whiskey because they have no
object in keeping up the reputation
of their brands in prohibition coun
tries where there is no trade to work
up and it is so easy for the bootleg
ger to cut a hole in the bottom of
the bottle with an electric wire and
extract half or all of the liquor and
substitute moonshine or cut it with
water. The labels are all intact but
not the contents. Then when I had
charge of enforcement work in Flori
da recently 1 discovered that the rum
running boats often had a big still
on board and were manufacturing the
imported liquor on the spot and label
ling it with the well known Scotich
brands. In Philadelphia I once cap
tured a $300,000 stock of redistilled
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denatured alcohol and a quantity of
labels of all the standard brands and
counterfeit revenue stamps so that
the dealer could have any brand he
wantd but it all come out of the same
barrel.
“You are to be congratulated on the
splendid Bone Dry Law you have. It
is the most efficient law I have seen
and I have directed enforcement work
at almast literally the four corners of
the Iffaited States. By it, as you
know, nearly every federal official
is ex-officio a prohibition enforce
ment agent and if they would all take
their oath of office seriously there
would not be any need for prohibition
agents in Alaska, but, as it is, it
mustt be said to their credit that the
great majority do recognize their re
sponsibility with more or less seri
ousness and are giving splendid co
operation to Acting Director Means
who in turn has produced more than
double the liquor cases ever before
secured in Alaska and in 90 per cent
of the cases has secured convictions,
so well has he prepared his cases. Its
greatest weakness is the search and
seizure feature which has been so
construed by some of the courts that
t is almost impossible to search a
private residence unless liquor is pur
chased there, and many bootleggers
are just smooth enough to sell it else
where. The law should be amended
to follow the law of the state of
Washington and other states whereby
a search can be made on proper in
formation and belief backed by good
circumstantial evidence. That law has
not been abused elsewhere and it
would not be so abused here. Of your
court commissioners I have found twro
who do not take the obligation of
their office seriously and assess ade
quate fines and jail sentences.”
“So far as I can observe the pro
hibition law is better enforced right
now is most of Alaska than the laws
against gambling or prostitution and
yet no one would think of repealing
those law's because of their infrac
tions. We prohibitionists as well as
the wets have terribly short mem
ories and don’t stop to think how
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SEWARD, ALASKA
few drunks they seen on the streets
| compared to the saloon days, how
different the Fourth of July celebra
tion is and how many former oftl
soaks have straightened up and are
now supporting their families and
have money in the bank.”
Referring to moonshine and home
brew the speaker justified his asser
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CHAS. NEVELIUS, Prop.
Mrs. V. Corning, Mgr.
j tion that they would take care of
| themselves and those who drink the
stuff by calling attention to the poi -
sonous nature of the stuff, how the
amateur distillers would distill ever
| poisonous fusel oil and aldehydes even
under thebest conditions and how
they used lead worms, wash boilers
with soldered joints and never clean
ed the containers, how frequently
dead rats and other vermin, dead hogs
hens and other animals were found In
the mash and stills located under ma
nure piles and in filthy outhouses and
that the home brew almost invarably
made the consumers sick because it
was not only green beer but more es
pecially because it was improperly
brewed and the sediment in it wrould
clog up the kidneys.
In closing he said: “Men who have
the money to pay ten dollars or more
for a bottle of so-called ‘good’ booze
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ORDER EASTERN
STAR
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days at 8 p. m. Visiting
Members Welcome.
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SEWARD REBEKAH
LODGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
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SEWARD LODGE NO.
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Resurrection Lodge
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CHAS. LECHNER, SEC.
SEWARD POST NO. FIVE
American Legion
Meets Second and Fourth Tuesdays
A. E. RUCKER, Commander.
J. P. HANNON, Adjutant.
IGLOO NO. NINE
Pioneers of Alaska
Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday at
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F. B. MOORE, President.
C. A. M’DOUGALL, Secretary.
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