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Show ' And the following artificial extracts, which usually contain about .() per cent of alcohol, as do such beverages as whiskey and gin, V ill be permitted lemon, vanilla, raspberry, strawberry, almond, V pineapple, peach, coffee, chocolate, banana, wild cherry, rum, neroli, cognac, cherry grape, apple, blackberry, AND OTHER EXTRACTS 1 OF A SIMILAR NATURE: Some will think it a shame that the stern attorney general cut it extract of sagebrush and extract of tumble-weeWe suspect, however, that the published list contains gross r. rors. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that even a lax pro-- 3 i: ihition officer and a brazen attorney general will permit such wholesale manufacture of booze. jjj d. , j i But there are other regulations inanity. The extracts can bfc equally ridiculous for their sold only to grocery stores, jobbers, facturers, bakeries, soda fountains, hotels, restaurants and boarding hmises. In the old wet days liquor was sold by distilleries only to jobbers, but now even stronger intoxicants are sold to boarding houses. Lets all go to boarding all except us prohibitionists. We also note that L. and L. may be sold in conWhat the L. and L is it? tainers. E We also read something about and to some it will seem as if Skipper Matt Thomas were going to mobolize submarines to hunt, down bootleggers on the Great Salt Lake. Rumors reaches us' that the meeting was called upon the urgency of the present state chairman who sent for the former state chairman and used the wild, passionate language of pleading. We also hear the gossip that the bootleggers appealed to the Democratic leaders, declaring the extract business unfair competition. The regulations are a mockery. The limitation to two ounce bottles simply means that the fair expanses of Utah will be littered with glassware. And even if the flavors are limited to three or four varieties the traffic in artificial extracts hardly will be impaired. Why does not Attorney General Shields cut out the whole business? The argument that people demand the extracts is not an argument to a strict prohibition like, let us say, Mr. Thomas. People also demand light wine and beer and even bourbon and gin, but they do not get it. All that the officers of the law will allow them is moonshine and extracts. I The efforts of the state administration, aided by the federal pro- ihihition officer, have been directed toward pulling the wool over the the public regarding the nefarious traffic in booze extracts, j Each year thousands of gallons are manufactured by the extract j makers at a fabulous profit in virtual partnership with the state which furnishes the alcohol. To Mathoniah Thomas, Attorney General Shields and others in j the state administration who are standing by the booze trust, we j say, behold how plain a tale shall set you down. The Democratic state administration, fortunately for the peo-- j I pic of Utah, is near an end, blit during the years that the adminis-- : t ration was piling up a deficit and a bad record generally it has been supplying alcohol to the extract makers, while making it frequently j impossible for sick persons to obtain a drop of alcohol to save them from death. j During the influenza epidemics many died because they did j not have the proper amounts of alcohol for medical use. Some who t obtained the alcohol obtained it in desperation from bootleggers, j Others obtained it from the police and others from friends who obtained it from the police. j j Among those who secured alcohol during illness in this i Mirreptitious manner was one of the prime movers in the passing oi the prohibition bill. He was sick unto death and, being no hypo-- I mitc, he had not stocked his cellar with booze. When the influenza seized upon him he struggled through the first few days, but the nttack left him very weak and on the advise of his doctor he sent for some alcohol. He obtained it from the sources we have just r. luded to. We cite this to show that in an emergency it was practically impossible to get the alcohol from the state when it was needed was for medical purposes, and yet, at that very time, the state two-oun- 1-- 1 ? I s THE CITIZEN I B, 1-- C, 1-- D, 1-- ce supplying its partners, the extract makers, with alcohol ad libitum for the manufacture of beverages. They were not called beverages, of course, but the extract makers and the federal prohibition officer and the attorney general of the state knew that they were beverages, . knew that they were being drank by the hundreds of gallons as beverages. It must not be imagined that these are deadly drinks like denatured alcohol. They are drinks containing usually about 50 per cent alcohol and 50 per cent of water and extracts or substitute for extracts. We are assured by those who have imbibed that the flavors are often seductive. It is true that, a few weeks ago, a man was found dead in a local hotel as the result of alcoholic excess, but very likely he would have met the same fate from the excessive use of whiskey. .Not that we vouch for the safety of any alcoholic drinks used as Some of them may be fatal by their very nature while beverages. others are fatal because drunk excessively. The people who conspfre to violate the law, whose elastic consciences permit them to engage in a traffic, are not apt to be careful of human life. A few dead more, more or less, matter not to them. No Banquos appear to torture them so long as their pathway is lit by the lustre of gold. The profits made by the manufacturer of the extracts which are sold retail for beverage purposes are enormous. One firm the one which has done the most extensive business in booze was accustomed to obtain a fifty gallon barrel of alcohol on the states permit every two days. The profits may be visualized by a few figures. The alcohol or spirits, as it is technically known, is 188 proof when it comes from the dispensary. Thus fifty gallons of spirits will make 200 gallons of beverages containing 47 per, cent of alcohol. The 200 gallons make 1,600 pints. The extracts have been selling in bottles which contain less flian a pint, but let us figure it on the pint basis. These bottles, .labeled eight ounces, have been sold for 87 cents by the manufacturers. At that rate 1,600 pints would net $1,392. The cost of the fifty gallons at recent market prices of alcohol was at $6.50 a gallon, $325. Allowing $20 for the two days labor cost and $10 for overhead the cost of the 1,600 pints of extract was $355, which left a profit of $1,037 on the fifty gallons of spirits, or, let us say roughly, $1,000. And this profit was obtained three times a week by this particular firm. Thus the firm which was coining most of the money out of the travesty on the prohibition law was making a profit of $3,000 a week. Naturally fhe firms which have been piling up wealth by their partnership with the state administration are doing all they can to obscure the issue. They hold prevarication parleys to lie publicly to the people. They are whited sepulchres with an alcoholic odor. get-rich-qui- ck SILVER, SUGAR AND POLITICS By agreeing to pay a dollar an ounce for domestic silver the United States government fixed a price far above the price prevailing elsewhere in the world. And all of lis arc expected to applaud a generous government which is doing so much for the silver miners of this country. But when a Utah sugar company asks the market price for one-fifat a price far below of its product, after selling four-fiftthe market, good Democrats like Senator King and James H. Moyle demand that the Utah companys officials be indicted for profiteerth hs ing. Is it honest and fair on the part of our representatives at Washington to conduct a campaign against one industry, which has been selling below the market price, and work to secure an artificially high price for another industry? Both are Utah industries and all of us should be glad to see them prosper, but if politics is allowed to enter into the question the sugar industry of Utah is apt to collapse in the not remote future. If the sugar companies may not sell at the market price in the . |