A REMARKABLE DECREASE IN DRINK PRODUCTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14381, 26 November 1908, Page 4

A REMARKABLE DECREASE IN DRINK PRODUCTION.

Sik.—During the campaign just, closed the Liquor party staled that tlio drink bill of the United Stales was increasing. This may have been so in 1906. It is not to in 1807 and 1903. From an article liy Mr Samuel J. Barrows, president of the International Prison Cpnimii-sion, in tlio New York Outlook of July 11, 1908, I Inko the following:-" Official information cojnmuniciikd to the writer from the -Treasury Department shows -that revenue.; of the United States Government for spirits of all characters for tho 10 months of t.hc fiscal year ending .April 30 liavo gone down 11,727,266 dollars—nearly equal to £2,500,000." As showing that this is not a passing phase, an article in the Associated Prohibition Press of October 10 states that " the drink production of the United States during 60 days of July anil August this year -has declined 60,000,CC0 dollars, or equal to £12,000,000." ' These facts show the ridiculous naiure of the claim put forward that prohibition and no-license <lo not decrease tlio consumption of drink. Anyone with a giSin of common sense will realise that tho opposition of the Liquor party to no-liccnso is based upon tho fact that it does desreaso tho eonsumption of liquor.-I am, etc., iNoveiubcr 21, o>ioh.u-