. Highways and byways of the South. o matter howhonest they air. I found out whar that thar still issome time ago, and they hadnt any objection, becausethey know Id jus be bus wide open befo Id tell. Blockade whiskey is the only whiskey made thatsfit to drink, said Steve, judicially. Its pure. Itaint pizen, like the doctored whiskey thats paid thegovernment revenue. I gathered from Mr. Gliddons and Steves conver-sation that illicit distilling went on about the same it hadfor many years. Comparatively little of the whiskeyis taken out of the mountains, and the distillers do not 128 Highways and
. Highways and byways of the South. o matter howhonest they air. I found out whar that thar still issome time ago, and they hadnt any objection, becausethey know Id jus be bus wide open befo Id tell. Blockade whiskey is the only whiskey made thatsfit to drink, said Steve, judicially. Its pure. Itaint pizen, like the doctored whiskey thats paid thegovernment revenue. I gathered from Mr. Gliddons and Steves conver-sation that illicit distilling went on about the same it hadfor many years. Comparatively little of the whiskeyis taken out of the mountains, and the distillers do not 128 Highways and Byways of the South find its production very profitable under present con-ditions. They continue as poor as ever, yet in theirview the manufacture is one of their rights, and theywill persist in it. Steve affirmed that if the govern-ment would spend the money it now spends ferretingout the moonshiners for education in the same region,it would accomplish much more in destroying thebusiness than it does. He did not think the revenue. In an Upland Corn-field In the Tennessee Mountains 129 officers were very effective. It was almost impossiblefor them to find the stills unless some moonshinerbetrayed his fellows, and frequently the officers weremore intent on getting profit out of their labors thanin really destroying the stills. They are paid a certainsum for each successful foray, and they will take ahack out of a still to show for the purpose of gettingtheir reward, and leave the still in shape to be readilyput in order again. After a while they make anotherraid on the same still, hack out a piece of the worm,and secure a second reward. One local still had beenbroken up thus five times. If I aint mistaken, I heered some one sayin thatyoungest Beasley was married yesterday, remarkedMr. Gliddon, changing the subject. Yes, replied Steve, married Hannah Hosford. Lor a mercy ! Did she take him ^ Hes plumbshiftless, an thar never was an honest Beasley knew what he was, too, a
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