Show LIQUOR FIGURES friends of prohibition were owr preat eil soil a oil pained at the editor tinder the above heading beading in the I 1 nj ot of late date in ID it you speak abek of tl prosperous erous condition of the tb if traffic lo in prohibition iowa where kofl thing over five persons engaged in the business as aa deit daalen and od say ay that oven even kaness also alo an hibit lon has bab more than two five hundred dea dealer lerk while aks KM tucky lucky actually ban baa over hundred lose dollers than iowa I 1 have no means of knowin knowing source or character of the fig quoted above otherwise than taw if aness statements statement and so BO cannot k pe with entire certainty regarding th in 10 mail detail but the only ints atall ties usually obtainable aie those of united states internal revenue ports porta and those these give evidence of ing from that source assuming th that s the they v do the deductions and assum I 1 HOUS of the article all tail fall to lo the me refund in presence of one fact wt iab if 19 has bae strangely overlooked 1 I host returns do not indicate lodi oate paloona at ai oil all to in distinction from others who comi come under ander the provisions of the he lawr liand and hence are almodal for information as to trie me coio iio of the liquor traffic every perso who makes or sells alcoholic au bets i coat any kind must pay the revenue tax whether they be for drinking purposed seb or N not more than this overy who rho tries ats r sell on the sly ely and gets gete euget is ia maue made to p y toe the tax for a year jr even though his hie sales do nc att t to mallon rod and land jand him its in prison ibus in strict tact states like maine and kansas where aab convictions way be quite numerous in a given bertou the r venue ailt B gigear are ut ably ubly unreliable reliable as au luda actually in operation vea coo every eiore thoua fit only under the strictest abt at t I 1 eatlo ugly observed veu vou all the tbt makers of proprietary mod mediel id eo es oddes eto etc along with breweries dis makers of wine etc kiin aeto 0 o come into the be returns art abr made to arue against uon ion such buch use uee oi of the is ie entire ly unjust tto juat I 1 again the figures given to in the edl edi So riall answer aneser and ev 1 ague in favor ul of when cor taft other farcas of 01 the ibe case are brou gla jn evidence 1 I iowa is not a prohibition state nor br former burmer prohibition law lav was waa only a instead of a cou con provision pro and 69 coming a football of politics war wan aepli rep thOd ced by a so called mullet law which in ia alicene li cene especially in the larger places pla cies hence hance it BUC atie has jajoo abio tte fact muot not he be blamed against prohibition 2 the tb liquor deal erfe said eaid 0 so o eliat in 10 win ibis ex prohibition state tat crould be enough to give two and our belt saloons albona to overy post bosti t glee in tb aste te the country or anee so rubus roatus placeit Nie udd so tremendous a statement kill itself if elf with any ADY one who stops to think or knows anything of the personally 8 now compare the figures fir civet givet for license to in iowa with for oro dro bibi tion kansan the two otavee b ave v bout the same humbur of postoffice post office towns and vi villages llaves bat even WON user which are supposed to tell so daily vily against five too ae lon tate mate only one half as many dealers as the ex prohibition 41 kentucky and iowa compared com Dared wave lv le years ago before prohibition we j enacted I 1 acted lu in iowa the writer as t commercial traveler vial visited ted evemy bank t town wd in fully two thirds ol of toe state voe then he be resided three years to lu imbat is bably as moral a cit oita kentucky cat can boast la in that city olty 0 VOZ population there ut ui aft bundred bund red and ton ten saloons ano ana liveral ji veral liquor g betat and the sal eal ona boris were open carid cu riD ali all but about six h hi urb of the oty four sundays and week daye dajc hie e no one woo who saw chemor i ol oi ane two I 1 did can bibly compare the two to abe dis altage of iowa A state full of breweries sod aud has baa IM call for small saloons and will have few i indeed for or illicit fielli ol liiK yet the revenue figures which I 1 fir d are far from beighe in kentucky favor now for a very vary few figures on the oth tb r side eide the internal revenue rt re ports fur for two years swo are toe ane balest I 1 titine at h nil these show the i axcy reca ived from iowa awa a 2448 r t m kansas Kinf taa 72 from Ku Kukuc Luek tej shnovia ownly five milr oua or times limes as aa much so a for knaab Kauss fil 1 ana the of koll ken bucky la is lees leea than limb of low t wolfe last hat of 0 the Ks ka aas fidure fiu ure I 1 odis india territory aou and OiLia boina is not nol much lers prohibition only asks a fair show abow dd and she abe will defend herself against an ali bomer up its equal iu in effee I 1 veness I 1 an other of the foual code JOHN D NUTTING |