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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1925, Page 9

U.».A.'B EXPERIENCE. ~ Production of Illicit Liquor Increased. "' (By Wm. H. Stayton, graduate v>f Washington University, Admiralty Lawyer, President and. Director of manjr Corporations, etc.) Prohibition law abandons persuasion to reach the hearts and minds of men, and employs force and punishment TM effect allegedly moral objects. "When the Prohibition laws went into effect thero were. .34 distilleries m the United States, employing 1380 men. (see Anti-Saloon Year Book, 1925, page--13). Since then the Federal Government alone has seized 40,675 distillcriej up to June. 10-24. Probably the .States, forty-five of which have enforcement laws of their own, have seized as many more. "But beeide,' these distilleries there are stills and auxiliary hooch-making devices. The Enforcement Unit it>elf report? that in 1!>21 it seized 10.001 stills: that it has seized an even greater number each succeeding year, and that the total seized by it in four years has been fifty-one thousand eipht hundred and thirty-eight (51.838). It is doubtful if more tha one still in ten has been seized. But how much hooch, will 51,838 stills make? '"The seizures from the date when the Volstead Act went into effect up to June 30, 1924, less than four and a half years, a.2gre«rate 44.584,87;) gallons. The output seems to be steadily im-reasinjr, as the quantities seized have become larger every year. Thu-*, in the first hiilf-year the nunntitv captured was only h>3.7V> crullnn-- the next full year it rose to 5.80.1.80.1 Million*, and la-'t ypnr it renrhed l.")."8B.."i70 gallons. These fi<r.ires include wine. beer. etc. '"Then tlio annual output of the 1024 cauture- e-juals the hntre Quantity of 17.'!.''•;.">,27- jrallons of 100 per cent proof whisky, or considerably mure thiin the: total quantity consumed in the T'nlteU States in any prc-prohibition year. "The.-c figures represent. ;\-, before seizures by Federal officer- , ."'—'The North American Review." 102"). Prohibition has proved a disastrous experiment. After L'.S.A'j. experience you cannot afford to trust any fanatic's promises. Help the present majority, which intends that Mich disgraceful conditions shall never prevail in New ZxMp land.—(Acl. J . -~~^jj^K