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Show Starting A Racket The voters of various states will soon determine whether or not the Eighteenth Amendment will be repealed. States which have acted upon the question thus far have favored the resubmission of the Prohibition Amendment. Therefore, there are some people in America already looking ahead to the large profits which have usually been made out of the liquor business. j Congressman Celler, an anti-prohibition anti-prohibition Democrat from New York, says that the supply of whiskey in this country is insufficient insuf-ficient if the demand is released and that there will be a world shortage in supplies when the A-merican A-merican demand becomes effective. He fears that a monopoly, will be accomplished and says that one holding company has already obtained ob-tained control of more than half of the distillery capacity. Representative Celler does not like the prospects of a greedy trust raising the prices for its own profits and he says: "I know that an effort is being made to create a monopoly in whiskey production, and the wets of Congress will no: stand for it. These forces shall go no further. Uncle Sam holds the whip hand, and the whip will be laid across any group that attempts to dominate this industry. I am prepared to go before the Attorney General and demand action for violation of the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law the minute it is justified." |