Webb did a rant on ther mercentile exchange, Joe Kennedy, and smuggling booze yesterday.
The "rat Lines" crossed on the great lakes, and the booze, nowdays opiates were transferred to Chicago, Milwaukee, ect. The great lakes would be an easy way for them to do it.
The rat lines worked back then would work now.
Easier than marching slaves through the VERY Cold, and rough forests of Northern Minnesota.