I am referring to the border patrol as it has to do with the enforcement of immigration. That is under the direction of the Department of Labor. but the enforcement of the prohibition law and the internal revenue laws that are a part of the prohibition law today is now under the border patrol for enforcement upon the border. I see the junior Senator from Pennsylvania dissenting from that by the nodding of his head. If I am inaccurate in my statement I trust he will correct me. and I shall be glad to stand corrected. Speaking of these men. the report goes on to say: They told of bribes as high as $1.500 a week. of the diversion of seized liquor for superior officersMr. President. this debauchery. this bribery. not only smears and debauches the subordinate official but goes into higher places and corrupts and debauches the superior officers. None of these men. either the subordinates or the superior officers. were ever suspected of graft or bribery or corruption in their enforcement of the immigration laws. but the very moment this slimy thing called prohibition touched them in their official duties. they became corrupted. I am not condemning these men especially. They are victims of an unrighteous and unholy law. and I regret that they are called upon to serve a term in prison. The temptation was too great for them. They succumbed to that temptation. and they must pay the price. but while they were engaged in the enforcement of the immigration laws those men and those officers were honorable citizens. with clean hands and clean consciences. Further quoting from the report. it says that these men toldOf the diversion of seized liquor for superior officers. of a lieutenant shot by his own men because he was honest. Why. no more gruesome picture has ever prevailed in the most corrupt governments in all history than this picture of these patrolmen.
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