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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1920)
7 THE ALLIANCE ""HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1920 SIX I' l4 Comment - -and Discomment We hare been looming somthlnp tbout moonshiners. And in th.-s dry day. Information on th: Borl Of a subject Is Inter sting, 1u-t o general principle. We had always belie ed that a moonshiner was t iort of bootlegger, nave that lie made hit cwn stuff and In via i-nn, this teems U be true. Somo of our best bootleggers now niWJ their own prouuet. Hut thrjr at i not iuood ShlKis. Tin tcttlegger who is rUj A man tifaetuiei produces a n..vl Kt i'i.ii I compost J of plug tobnejj. silt water, vooi r'tohol for tlivor and r.ilsici and other dope for kick. He la more or lens of an amateur. Usually he has been given a recipe by a friend, or Is the proud possessor -f ihnf in teresting book: "One Hundred Kiw Ways to Get Splfflicsvted." wbkh, before a cruel government nterf(r red, was for Bale at most n-;wiMn"air and by mall. His product may have a kick, but it Is ruinously hard on the digestion. The moonshiner, as they know the species in the south, is an artist in his way. He has grown up at his trade. The secrets of distilling have been handed down from father to eon, and father got them from grand' father or great grandfather. The moonshiner Is not essentially a law breaker. He believes It Is his in alienable right to manufacture whisky. The bootlegger came into being when the' Bale of liquor was prohibited. The moonshiner made whisky long before that. He made whisky when the government didn't object to the manufacture, but simply wanted to Impose a tax on it "White Lightning" Is the name applied to the moonshine produce and it acts very much like it. , It is corn whisky, pure but not simple, and has a wallop that la more effec tlve than that of a wild, untrammel ed mule. Unlike the contraband BIG PROFIT IN MILKAND-BUTTER Small Investment llt-lugs III Ileturn Mr. Weavers l'liut la Simple. i ii n -r - - "I bought a package of Dr. Le Gear'B Siock Powders from my local dealer and after feeding It to My Jcracy Cow, she increased from 6 quarts to 12 quarts of milk per day, and after , continuing the. Powders for 30 days lonper, she increased In butter fat from .5 pounds to 10 pounds per week, and at the end of 5 months, she was making 12 pound: of butter fat per week." L. D. Weaver, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Weaver followed the advice of Dr. LeGear, and is money ahead. You can get the same results. Get Dr. LeGear's Stock Powders from your dealer; feed it to your horses, milk cows, steers, hogs and sheep as directed. Satisfaction or money back. Dr. L. D. LeOear Med. Co., St. Louis, Mo. 21-Jun 27 L . . ... 1 . ( J..J.1 wniBKy oi vne uouue&Brr". iv is u-u- ly. There's no wood alcohol about It. It's regular stuff. And down .outh, when'il Is made, they like it. The market is always steady, at prices ranging from l6 a gallon up generally-up and despite the con tant vlllgance of the federal agents ihey continue to manufacture it. But the moonshiners are whole salers. They would despise tho dinar efforts of our home brewers, who make up three or four gallons it a time. The South Carolina or Ken tucky moonshiners select a quiet spot Wp In the heart of a torst, .imi her builds him a still wi'h a capa Ity of a hundred and tW or wo hundred gallons. He can build th: till, grind the corn meal and d ftiil lis whisky within a week's line. The total cost of the manufacture will run less than $500, lncludli.fi lU building of the still, and the stuff will bring around $1,200. Therefore :t Is a paying business. What If the federal agents now and then capture and destroy a Bt 111 the moonshiner ran afford the loss. Wo have learned that the Sou.h Carolina moonshiner has inoiey Very often he has from three to live automobiles. He sends bis children to school, and buys fine rnim.'nt for his wife. The movies havt been leading us astray. They have inti mated that the moonshiner Is a poor sort of ski.te who remains In nidinn f.11 1 li time, who shoots ,rvniioc-rs" on s'ght and is a generally iml afcl sort of citizen. Dut ihc ju.ility of t'ie rroiesslon has improve I. This Is vndoubtedly due to the fact that wnlsK tilings higher prices than .1 did in other days. Also, the moon shiner seldom drinks his own product. The strangest thing about It all. Is that the public in general is in favor of the moonshiner. That is, they feel elated when he escapes with his still when the government agents have been pursuing, and so ;;enntl Is the feeling that the courts down south are reasonably lenient in moonshlnlng cases. The south is not against prohibition, far from it, bat the people rather think it is eiva t to outwit the sleuths, and they are willing to give due credit. Profit? who think themselves perfectly hon est are willing to beat the s'.reet car companies out of a fare or (wo, and most people feel th Mine way about stealing from the railroad). There'", something Impersonal about corpora tions and the govtrnnn-ni. Some day ;h?ro vi il bo no Injvor problem. A. .vhoi3 ran .f emrdy youngsters arc M"jw n j up who liave never known ti; :u,;to f INjU'ir Mid under prohibition thev will nevT ac quire it. A hundred jer.rr, from now, unless the pen lul l it of publ-c ucr allty swings (xr lit an opposite d'wc tlon, there'll J) .t jae cf e:il lu re 'who will never he trotibh i 'iy ex isting liquor. In the . rniantime, there are a lot of men who bav- bo. come accu3c m-;d to drinking, rnd they'll make, an .iffort to get hole of a supply as Ion? as they liv. And despite tho v'MUi'cu of federal a'ld local officer, somo ut them will get U. 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