Tampa is just 24 hours from Pensacola and Key West is 36 hours from Pensacola. Florida has a coast line of about 1.200 miles. indented with bays and harbors. most of them shallow. but in which small boats may land. and since the enactment of the prohibition amendment and theVolstead Act it is the mecca of violators of that law. Its proximity to the English isle. and within 40 miles. on the east. of Bemini. and Cuba within 100 miles on the south. offer peculiar inducements of easy access to the United States by bootleggers. smugglers. and those who wish to violate the immigration laws. In this connection I call attention to the headlines of a copyrighted article which appeared il the New York Herald and in the Tampa Times of February 1.3. 1922. showing the tremendous opportunities and the advantage taken of them by violators of the. Federal laws.
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