The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective LeagueHough, Emerson
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The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective League
Hough, Emerson
American Protective League; Propaganda, German; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States
A common practice of New Orleans taxicab drivers was to meet all
trains coming in from the cantonments and to offer the sights of the
city, liquor and taxicab included, to any enlisted man for a net sum
varying from five to ten dollars. The League practically wiped out this
pernicious practice by putting on the trains A. P. L. men in uniform as
soldiers. When they got off the train and were thus accosted by taxicab
drivers, they had all the evidence which was necessary. The taxicab
practice was seriously interfered with.
A neighboring city was alleged to have examined incorrectly before
its draft board a certain young man, giving him a classification
to which he was not entitled. Investigation was set on foot by the
A. P. L., who uncovered the fact that the man’s father conducted a
sanitarium patronized by drug and liquor patients. He had treated
several members of the board in his sanitarium, and had likewise had
the Federal district judge as a patient, as well as several other
influential citizens of the community. Thus, having rather confidential
information, A. P. L. had very little difficulty in framing up its
case. It will perhaps not be necessary to go into the usual series of
narratives of interesting cases in the instance of the Crescent City.
The report, as outlined above, is so different in its general phases
from that of the average division that it may be allowed to stand,
with the addition of its tabulated totals, which cover all the forms
of assistance to the Government in which A. P. L. has participated
throughout the United States.
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