. The Saturday evening post. fordelivery with the cash, and alone. Then,sometime during the night, the liquorcomes, and the money is paid. All this means organization, and capi-talized organization at that, because evenat forty dollars a case the Canadian pur-chase price soon mounts to figures, andadded to that are the automobile expenses,the moneys paid the men who bring in thecars and all the crowds of fixers, handlers,salesmen, and so on. The runners—themen who operate the automobiles—arepaid on a basis of $250 a trip, unless theyhave a working partnership. The rami-fications of this busine
. The Saturday evening post. fordelivery with the cash, and alone. Then,sometime during the night, the liquorcomes, and the money is paid. All this means organization, and capi-talized organization at that, because evenat forty dollars a case the Canadian pur-chase price soon mounts to figures, andadded to that are the automobile expenses,the moneys paid the men who bring in thecars and all the crowds of fixers, handlers,salesmen, and so on. The runners—themen who operate the automobiles—arepaid on a basis of $250 a trip, unless theyhave a working partnership. The rami-fications of this business are incredibleso far as the men interested and activeare concerned. The smugglers compriseabout every class of men who are will-ing to take a chance to get quick moneyand big money, regardless of the legality ofthe operations; and when you get down tobrass tacks on that proposition you findmany takers in all walks of life. Two classesof men predominate: One is the type of 50 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST December II, 1920. man who has financed crooked stock deals,crooked stock companies and variousswindles of similar sort; the other is theman who has been in the liquor businessand has been deprived of that business byprohibition. A certain class of foreignersis engaged in smuggling all along the bor-der. However, these are not all. The par-ticipants often include public officials, highly-respected citizens, officers of the law, andthat numerous gentry that is always readyto take a flyer in anything that providesgood returns whether the enterprise is oris not legitimate. In some sections of the country it wasstated to me that sheriffs and other officerswith police powers are the chief smugglers,operating the smuggling of cars across thenational and state borders and from time totime going out and holding up their owncars, bringing in their own men, fining thema few hundred dollars for violating thelaw and then releasing them to go on withthe lucrative work. Certainly these of
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