Show ASSET NOT LIABILITY not only Is prohibition an air asset as aa a human welfare agency but it means more money in ili more pockets A beer tax would put to million dollars into uio the national budget according to the estimate of tho the secretary of the treasury DUT BUT those millions would have to come straight out ot of the pockets of oe tho the people and mostly the poorer people more dollars for beer means less dollars for bread and the baker repent of prohibition would mean the farmer might sell grain tor for liquor but lose the sale tor for foods and milk the factories and sales people would lose the dollar that goes tor for drink the home owner would lose the rent money spent at the bar the mills and the workers would lose the dollar that goes into booze prohibition has proved or of tremendous re merit lous economic va value I 1 dalr during I 1 the depression it has taken the weight of the liquor traffic oft off the neck of our fellow citizens who must choose between shoes for the children or booze for themselves and has put it onto the white collared necks neck of lot those who are able to buy all the shoes arid and all tho the booze they want whiting Willo ams washington D 0 may 9 1932 industrial and sociological investigator prohibition ins has saved many a dollar that would have gone to the corner saloons and thus lias has saved many a family front from hunger |