U.S.A’S EXPERIENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1925, Page 2

U.S.A’S EXPERIENCE.

PRODUCTION OF ILLICIT LM.H'OR INCREASED. (By Wm. H. Slayton, graduate of Washington t't:ivet ■ ily. .Admiralty T.awyer. President and |)M' 'lor of many Corporai ions, etc.) Prohibition law abandons persuasion to reach the hearts and minds ol men. and employs force and punishment to effect allegedly moral objects. ‘ When the Prohibition laws went into client there were HI distilleries in the l"nite!.l States, employing IJWji men (see A nfi-Saloott A ear Bonk. Itt'io. pace ML Since then the Fedcrtd Gnvernment alone lias seized -lOJnn distilleries up to dune. M- L Probably tlie States, forty-five of which lime enforcement laws of their own. have seized as many more. Rut besides those distilleries there are still- and auxiliary hooch-making devices. The F.nloreemeni l nil itsell reports that in 1921 it seized lO.'J’Jl stills; that it has seized an even sweater number each succeeding \eai. am that the total seized by it in four years has been fifty-one thousand, eignt hundred and thirty-eight M1.838L D ■" doubtful if more fhan one still in ten has been seized. But bow much hooch will nUMS stills make/ “’The seizures from the date when the Volstead .Vet went into effect up to June 30. M‘2-1. less than I'mm amt a italf wears, aggregate ILoSLs,!) g>' * Inns. ' The output seems to he slemlilv increasing, as the qunntilies have become larger every year. lon-, in the first half-year the quantity capinreil was only 153.735 gallons; tae next full veur ii rose to 0.500.500 gait,ns, and last year it reached .-,70 gallons. 'The figures include wine, beer etc. ■•Tlh'ii the annual output ol the I-'-, captures e (| mi Is the huge «,uni:t ity o! 17:1.0(0.2/2 gallons of MO per centproof whisky, or considerably more than the total quantity emi-umod m the United Slates in any pre-1 hihition year. ‘•These figures represent, as. belore seizures hv Federal ollicers. - .he North American Review. M 25. Prohibition lias proved, a disastious experiment. After F.S..V-. experience Mill cannot alloril to tru-l an.’- tanatic’s |iiomi-e-. Help i!m- piesim; nia.i-o-iiy, wbieli intemls (iial sueli dlsgi'aeCi'nl conditions sliall never prevail in New Zealand.- 20.