U.S.A.’S EXPENDITURE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10138, 26 October 1925, Page 4

U.S.A.’S EXPENDITURE

PRODUCTION OF ILLICIT LIQUOR. INCREASED. (By, \\ m. H. Stay ton. graduate of Washington University, Admiralty Lawyer, President and Director of many Corporations, etc./ Prohib tiou law abandons j:or-ua-siou to reach the hearts and mind- ot men. and emp ores force and pun'shment to effect a.legediy moral o’ j.-ere. . "W hen the P. oiiib ton laws wont into effect- there were 54 distil ir'os in tr.c l nited States, emp’oy'ng 1 3 X O men (see Anti-Saloon Year Book. U'2-5 page 15). Since then iln- Federal Government, alone has seized 4t).6<0 distiller es up to June, 1924. Probably the States, forty-live of which have enforcement 1 ws of their own. inn. e seized as many more. “Out lies lies these d st Herbs there are stills and auxiliary hooch-making uo vices. Ihe Enforce incut. Un 1 it-clt reports that in 1921 it seized 10.:VI stdiS: that it has seized an own greater number each succeed ng year, and that the total seized by it m loin* ye - rs has- been fifty-one thou-and. eight hundred and th rty-c giu (SL--858). It. is doubtful if more than one - sti i in ten has 1-eon so zed. But hew mneb hooch will 51.838 stills maker ,;“‘‘’Lhe seizures from the date w hen into effect up i3;924'.i ! ,less than four and :a-hnlf years, aggregate 44.584.8 IP \ratput seems to _i<* '-steaxlily' tneigasing, as the quant ties seized. Jiave become arger every year. 1 hus % in the first half-year the quaiit t v captured was .only 153,735 jtnibms ; the next full year -1 rose to 5...$05,895 guTons, and’last year it reached 15.78G.570 ga’lons. These figures <• include wine, beer, etc. “ I lien the annua) output of the 1924 captures equals the Inigo quantity of 173.065, 2/2 gallons of 100 per vent, nroof whiskv, or considerably moro than the total quantity consumm the United States in any ] rePiohdnton year. “These figures rep reset t. as he lore, seizures bv Federal olive's.’’ North American Review. 1925. . Proh b lion lias'proved a d’.sastriffi” experiment. After U.S.A.’s experience you cannot afford to trust any inna.L ic’s promises. Help the present major- . iutends that such disgraee--1 ul.Aiyid tions shall never prc-va .l ni ' =====