Show VIC WIC WI W VI C T Ua U PLAYS FLAYS POISON HOAX Sa Says s 's Prohibition Officers Did Bid Not Cause Rum Ram Deaths publicity CHICAGO Feb leb The 22 22 Th pub pub- pub department or of o tho the nation national W V C T U has Issued sued the th following follow follow- following ing statement In all nil history there thero her has bas been no greater hoax than the th poison polson alcohol scare The Th Impression lon sion made by New York news news- newspapers newspapers papers at Christmas time was I that drinkers died by the th score daUb dellb deliberately poisoned by prohibition enforcement en- en enforcement en enforcement officers but an official report of ot the holiday deaths shows Hbo's but ono one death In tn allew all New ew NewYork NewYork York attributable to wood alcohol or any other denaturant The Tho Theother Theother other alcohol deaths death were from quantity not not quality CHOOKS STEAL lJ II 11 II Denatured alcohol Is I not con con- connected con connected with prohibition except that crooks steal It and fools drink It Old oaks I generally centrally for years have died of or their addle addic addiction lion tion to wood alcohol hair tonic horse horsa liniment vanilla extract varnish and other emergency y liquors when hen they could not ob oh o oIn obtain Lain tain In whisky Before BeCore America had prohibition prohibition tion the government go had a problem problem problem lem on lu its hands concerning alcohol al- al alcohol al alcohol cohol The Tho Th matter was settled by bya bya bya a tax taz on alt al al alcohol except that used In Industry In order to toI I distinguish the tax lax free fre alcohol and prevent crookedness the tho American government adopted the tho European method or of o making makinA in- in In Industrial alcohol Ium unfit to 10 drink INDUSTRY Every cIvilized government uses poison In alcohol t to protect industry and the thO In- In In Income come como from front the th ravages ranges or of o crooks The United States Stale uses from 4 to 9 0 per cent of or poison Other coun countries tries use uso us from 10 iO to 30 20 per cent Attempts Attempt of 6 r the cheaper style wet propagandists to blame poison polson alcohol upon some Individual COli- COli con connected with the dry cause caus cause show hona a lack oC or Information which tit is pitiful or a viciousness akin to bolshevism n ALCOHOL The Tho Th sentiment in n favor or of poison polson In la industrial 1 alcohol comes COlnel from the th manufacturers of Amer Amer- AmerIco America ica Ico who decline to accept the th wet politicians outcry that poison must be taken from Industrial al al- al I-cohol I Cobol cohol American manufacturers manufacturer use o d denatured alcohol at II a a low price pric because It Is III un un- un untaxed taxed un-taxed taxed From Irom the tho th very cry nature natura Or of things It if Industrial alcohol Is tub tur- fur furnished free frona from fron a d n or poison polson th the pric price would b bo moudy enor-moudy enor- enor enormously mouilly Increased because of or the tho unnecessary ary tax and there would be an enormous upset all through Liln Thou Those who are ar behind the thA present movement to slander the th eighteenth amendment know they do de not tell the th truth when they the Y sa say that the government which does docs not do the denaturing puts poison In alcohol to 9 kill tho those who drink It L t |