BOOTLEGGING INDUSTRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9575, 28 July 1923, Page 3

BOOTLEGGING INDUSTRY.

A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. Every fiat or apartment building in the cit'v of Chicago houses. at least one. representative of the liquor industry, the Chicago Daily News asserted in a story in which it averred that liquor was the biggest single business, legitimate- or otherwise. in the United States to-day. This, the newspaper states, does not cover the thousands ot other places where liquor is bought or sold, saloons, soft drink places, drug-stores, cigar stores, candy stores, poolrooms, roTid houses, and many other places for retail sales.

The story stated that 25,000 smugglers trafficked between Canadian shores on the Detroit rn ei nod Ecor.se, a small town about ten miles below Detroit, carrying daily an estimated total of 100,000 gallons of liquor over the river, which marks the international boundary line between the two countries,, many, of these operations being in bread daylight and with no more caution against detection than is obseiied ordinarily in the transfer ol a’truckload of groceries. “Before prohibition these smugglers were bringing in Chinese at from 300 dollars to" 1000 dollars each,” the News said. “But now they havecensed smuggling Chinese. Everything else has given way to the great American demand for booze. Booze is a gigantic business in the United States,’with surprising offshoots and ramifications, and from start to finish from producer to consumer, it reeks’with bunk, ranging from minor misrepresentations to swindles that cost lives. Successful Chicago business men who could not be 'taken in’ In any other form of coin game under the sun, are falling for fake booze every day, paying ex'.ra prices and goifig to considerable trouble to fall for the especially absurd fakes.”