Bingham News | 1922-09-02 | Page 4 | Bootleg

Bootleg. Liquor, shipped to foreign countries for storage on the eve of national prohibition, pro-hibition, is gradually being brought ; back, some by smugglers, some through !rWTete channel. The total to-tal of this liquor Is worth $300,000,000 In the legitimate market $1,000,000,-000 $1,000,000,-000 If handled by bootleggers, says John D. Appleby, general prohibition agent In the New York and New Jersey Jer-sey district. At this rate, the bootlegging boot-legging system takes 233 per cent profits for the risk It runs. This reduces re-duces bootlegging to a mathematical basis, operating on the law of averages.