ISBN: 9780217866699

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE ILLICIT LIQUOR TRADE The I.L. Detective Department--The Liquor Scourge--Peruvians the Monopolists--Their Trade Methods--Enormous Profits--Attitude of Licensing Magistrates--Heavy Penalties Inoperative--How Prosecutions Failed--Some Mining Authorities Oppose Liquor Abolition-- An Incorruptible Public Prosecutor--The Muzzling of Officials-- Murder of I.L. Detectives--The Trapping System--Police-proof I.L. Canteens--Trap-Boys--Open Bribery of Officials--The Compound Manager--Huge Profits of Native Mine Police--A Night with an I.L. Poacher No secret service department under any Government had more justification for its inception, and less for its continuance, than that formed by the late Transvaal Executive for dealing with that scourge of the mining industry and of the Kaffirs--the illicit liquor traffic. Under the laws of all the South African Colonies and States it has long been a serious offence to supply natives with intoxicating liquor. It was not so much in the interest of the native as from motives of self-protection that the whites enacted these laws. If ever a temperance advocate ran short of arguments in support of the allegation that alcohol can be a curse, he would need no more after investigating the case of liquor versus the South African native. But the Transvaal illicit liquor detective department was inaugurated out of regard, not for the ethical, but for the business side of the matter. The mining authorities awoke to the commercial and economic fact that the natives'' taste for intoxicating liquor cost their industry many thousands of pounds a year as a consequence of labour lost and deteriorated by drunkenness. The Chamber of Mines published at intervals formidable tables of statistics showing the loss to the industry, and doubtle... Douglas Blackburn, Books, History, Secret Service in South Africa Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Cassell & co., ltd. in 1911 in 399 pages; Subjects: Secret service; South Africa; History / General; History / Military / General; History / World; History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa; Social Science / Criminology;<

ISBN: 9780217866699

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE ILLICIT LIQUOR TRADE The I.L. Detective Department--The Liquor Scourge--Peruvians the Monopolists--Their Trade Methods--Enormous Profits--Attitude of Licensing Magistrates--Heavy Penalties Inoperative--How Prosecutions Failed--Some Mining Authorities Oppose Liquor Abolition-- An Incorruptible Public Prosecutor--The Muzzling of Officials-- Murder of I.L. Detectives--The Trapping System--Police-proof I.L. Canteens--Trap-Boys--Open Bribery of Officials--The Compound Manager--Huge Profits of Native Mine Police--A Night with an I.L. Poacher No secret service department under any Government had more justification for its inception, and less for its continuance, than that formed by the late Transvaal Executive for dealing with that scourge of the mining industry and of the Kaffirs--the illicit liquor traffic. Under the laws of all the South African Colonies and States it has long been a serious offence to supply natives with intoxicating liquor. It was not so much in the interest of the native as from motives of self-protection that the whites enacted these laws. If ever a temperance advocate ran short of arguments in support of the allegation that alcohol can be a curse, he would need no more after investigating the case of liquor versus the South African native. But the Transvaal illicit liquor detective department was inaugurated out of regard, not for the ethical, but for the business side of the matter. The mining authorities awoke to the commercial and economic fact that the natives'' taste for intoxicating liquor cost their industry many thousands of pounds a year as a consequence of labour lost and deteriorated by drunkenness. The Chamber of Mines published at intervals formidable tables of statistics showing the loss to the industry, and doubtle... Douglas Blackburn, Books, History, Secret Service in South Africa Books>History, General Books LLC<

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ISBN: 0217866697

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