Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-23 | Page 12 | Argument Still Open

r ' eArgument Still Open SPEAKING to delegates to the International Congress Against Alcohol, Andrew J. Volstead, Vol-stead, author of the now famous supplement to the American constitution declared that if the United States spent proportionately for liquor what -other countries spend it would cost between four billion ancMive billion dollars dol-lars t year. He didn't say whether these j prices are figured on the basis of what we, pay fof liquor now or on whatvwe would pay if we bought It openly like other people. J There Is one goud thing about the prohibition prohibi-tion issue. , You can draw any sort of conclusion con-clusion ftom It you want. Mr. Volstead, for Instance, declares there are fewer criminals under prohibition than there y ere before. He undoubtedly excludes that great horde of dfy law, offenders who, in the final" analysis, can be regarded In' no other light. At the same meeting a Danish Investigator Investi-gator who spent several months making a detailed Investigation of American prohibition, declared that our laws are not curtailing the use of alcohol As we remarked before, prohibition pro-hibition is open to any conclusion you may wish to draw from. it.