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Al Capone — Part 32
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forbids Uncle Sam te interfere
with criminals within State limits
unless such criminals owe him
It has been said that some
,_ goed is in all evil and some evil -
.. in all good. No American can be _
F particularly proud of the pic -
L ture on the right, showing Uncle
’ Sam squeezing out profits from
r bootleggers, racketeers and other
* -eriminals. : : 5
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hunt them’ down with “G-men”
ONLY when those criminalshave _
failed to pay income tax, divid- .
ing their eriminal earnings with _
Uncle Sani, seems ‘unbelievable. _
You see the good is mixed
with evil, when told that law
That this Government should
interest itself in ecriminale and —
money. When they do owe him
money it is possible for the Gov-
ernment’s long arm to reach out
and gather in delinquent taxpay-
ers wherever they sre found.
Such reaching out put the arch-
criminal, Capone, in a cell, deep
down in ck of Alcatraz
Prison. This. makes it possible
fot) the Government to hunt
ra¢keteers in any city where
thep fail to “divide.” A strange,
buF a useful source of income.
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