Show Borne me ome time tinte ago we In these th columnS column to the claIms dRI made by b the h friends friend of Prohibition Prohibit that the cause lUll U Ii snaking making phenomenal progress ea In the th country and remarked l that Wat the Increase In InIn In the of ot Intoxicant I Is Ie In tc le In view of ot the growth of the Pent mont This larres re In th the consumption of alcoholic liquor Is Ii I rather remarkable The Tb federal revenue reports report show how a ln per capita e consumption consumption tion ton urh earh of ot malt mall liquor r wines and aDd distilled d which l to 2117 2237 gallon pilon In as with 12 1200 0 gallons In 1114 Iun an nn It l asks ask ka th the New York Times Tt that ov 0 i 40 per pr cent of ot the nation that lat part rt living In the dry d areas area are Is Ii shell abstinent betl nent or ur It ItS Ita rate rat of consumption lUmp tion while the th residents of the wet wot are more moe than doubling their Common sense n rejects such INCh an on an d Mr Hr William North of the M Social club writing from Washington D tO C Cand Cand Cand and i on our article on Pro Prohibit hibit in explains explain that the be claims of ot tnt tJI T t ore are rather Illusory If It he b ays KY you take the Ute recent nt no i ml ill report 1 of ot It the Ih Census n a Bureau Buu en NIt statistic of or cities of af In Inhabitant habitant and over you find I Ilif lri lif Itle 1111 only ten Ie that have bave no II licensed Uc and even amona among th thee ten len lenom om ar are situated so 10 close dOle to other oUter cities cit tea with saloons that u they practically form part parl of for tor Instance Ance IA Cam Clun Cambridge bridge and Maiden Ma r louse which are as much h M a parts parte rt of hasten Boston aaa 01 there th I Is C S C WhICh wk h has Ita he no saloons but I a II dispensary If It you yop Study bulletin Ii 5 of lit if the name mIme Bureau whIch contain tat of 01 eU between und md you JOU dud 11 antong 3 01 elba only nl 51 i without licensed saloons Although h hIhl this thin Ihl number baa has since line 1 the th year 1 of ot those statistics sOmewhat grown grewn The fact Is Ia i Mr tr North Korth that thet I Prohibitionists fifty lift per cent cant coy eov 00 cr ore principally tem wn where r there Uter would b lie be no 00 saloon or very vary few w ln If It there lb were w no prohibition laws la town villages vUI and aad hamlets t urd Ird they t also altIG Include snob auck i aristocratic districts la 1 larger III cUlM la lit 1 which no 80 saloon would or rather could exist We W are afraid atrat l there the Is more truth than titan poetry in this presentation of ot the theca th case ca AM And then dry d territory la Is lanot not always I dry Prohibition does not always prohibit And that thet explain why wh ta lb tM revenue nu reports do not DOC follow the he Prohibition movement more does cIoN cIoNI i 17 jr |