SIXTY MILLION POUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 23 October 1922, Page 7

SIXTY MILLION POUNDS.

PROFITS FOR BOOTLEGGERS. Thus says the Philadelphia "Public Ledger,' , in announcing a series of articles on "Bootlegging , :— "Rum-runners, using every mode of i transportation nvaihible, aro smug-! rrlinjr liquor into the United Statts to huild up the enormous bootlegging traffic that has already attained such amazing proportions that the profits nre said to be 300,000 dollars per annum. "From across sens, from across the Canadian and Mexican borders, from the British West Indies, from Bermuda, a constant stream of liquor is daily pouring, to be received in the United States by bootleggers, who take it, and when they have finished doctoring it, 98 per cent of it goes to you and your friends, while the remaining 2 per cent that is left pure is retained by the bootlegger for himself and his friends. '•Wet judges and juries are keeping whole sections of the country sopping wet."

"Doctors are flooding with prescriptions for liquor homes that prior to Prohibition were dry.

"Bribery, forgery, perjury — •■ ew»ry form of vicious crime—even murder is being committed almost daily to sustain the bootlegger in his nefarious and successful endeavour to build up colossal fortunes at the expense of public health and the Constitution of the United States."

Are you going to countenance the development of a large nefarious traffic of this kind in New Zealand? These enormous profits avoid taxation, and you will be the scapegoat who will have to make up the country's revenue. Vote Continuance.— (Ad.) ' 59