KEEPING AMERICA DRY
PROHIBITION DIFFICULTIES
COMMISSIONER'S REPORT
(Received 9th December, 2 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, 7th Dec.
Dr. Doran's annual report on how he keeps America dry is an interesting record of accomplishment, and also a revelation of the difficulties which Prohibition faces in this country. The Commissioner recognises these difficulties, but contends that, large as is the amount of illicit liquor manufactured, smuggled, and consumed, it is a mere fraction of the total of pre-Prohibition days. Ho employs an army of five thousand, besides Coastguards and Customs officials. Nineteen thousand offenders were sent to gaol for a total of 14,400 years, and forty thousand other convictions registered paid fines of three million sterling.
The presence of grafting is openly acknowledged. There are two hundred special agents, who keep their eyes open for crooked enforcement officers. Tho latter earned five hundred gaol years and £.50,000 fines. During the year 27,000 illicit distilleries were eliminated, while 230,000 household worms and fermenters were seized and destroyed in every part of the country, together with more than thirty million gallons q£ liquor.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 12
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