Show t I Prohibition Js Is Gr Great at Boon Bogn to Nation Saloon Anti League Counsel Asserts By WAYNE B WHEELER General Counsel Anti Saloon League of America Prohibition is being observed by bythe bythe bythe the overwhelming majority of the Am American rIcan people The The drunkard has vanished almost entirely from our I streets penal enal commitments for tor drunkenness have decreased 51 per percent cent Every business Indicator supports Herbert Hoo Hoovers Hoover's rs r's statement that prohibition is responsible for tor much of or the Increase In our Industrial ef efficiency et- et because people eople are not drinking generally Only those who forget the ds- ds aucher of ot youth routh by the licensed saloon can believe that young people peo peo- pIe now are cons consuming any considerable considerable con con- fraction traction of the liquor they drank before prohibition Vho Whoever ver declares that drinking among the youth was non-existent non before prohibition pro Is either Ignorant of t the te e facts or a deceiver INVITING BACK COR CORRUPTION Such alcoholic consumption as now exists would be greatly In Increased Increased Increased In- In creased If It the alcoholic content In p permitted beverages Is raised Beer Deer made up 90 per cent of ot the liquor traffic under license The offensive beer saloon plus the crimes and corruption of the brewers as re revealed revealed revealed re- re by th the senate Investigation Continued on page 8 I PROHIBITION HELD GREAT BOON TO UNITED TATES i Continued from page 1 made mads prohibition inevitable to re return return return re- re turn this beverage with Its convicted convicted convicted con con- brewers and dealers to power would Invite back the evils banished banish banish- ed by prohibition The amount of pure alcohol In licensed beverages s before prohibition prohibition prohibition tion amounted to over gallons per year Over 90 per cent centor of or all Illicit liquor sold today Is made from industrial alcohol The total production of Industrial alco- alco hal last year was gallons of which nearly gallons was completely denatured leaving only gallons of specially denatured alcohol which could be redistilled Only of that could be made potable cheaply and practical practical- ly Legitimate industry uses that alcohol In enormous quantities but If It the entire gallons were diverted to the bootlegger it would be only a a. little over 6 per cent of or our alcohol consumption before pro pro- And yet this alcohol is the source of 90 per cent of the bootleggers bootleggers' boot- boot legg rs' rs product WHAT WETS MAY DO DOWhen t V When en the wets make their wine out of pure water as did Christ then the drys will cease to oppose the legalizing of that beverage To argue that temptations are divine agencies agencies' in the development of character and to condemn prohibition prohibition tion because It removes for stumbling Is not convincing It would be equally logical to condemn condemn condemn con con- all other prohibitory laws Jaws even those against theft murder adultery etc on the same ground Prohibition has lowered tax burdens burdens bur bur- dens by Increasing legitimate business business business busi busi- ness which is the true source of oC revenue Taxes on private vice en enrich enrich enrich en- en rich no nation as Japan found when it abolished the yosh When one individual formerly dry surrenders and champions liquor two new friends of the cause rise up to support the constitution and orderly government |