PROHIBITION IN AMERICA
ELEVEN YEARS’ STATISTICS.
MODERATION LEAGUE REVIEW.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.
The Moderation League, an organisation composed of private individuals who are opposed' to prohibition, has issued a statement based on a review of statistics for the past 11 years for every American town Which has a population of, more'th'an. 5000. The statement asserts that drunkenness generally has increased to virtually pre-prohibition levels, and that’ certain classes of intoxication, such, as amqng motor-car drivers and minors, have increased far above*anything ever known before in this, country.
' The league groups 350 communities, in which, it alleges, the arrests foij intoxication in 1914 totalled 506,737, as against 226,070 in 1920 and 498,752 in 1924.
The statistics quoted show some remarkable decreases in arrests for intoxication. In New York they have dropped 40’ per cent, since 1914 ; in Portland, Maine, 50 per cent, and in Buffalo,'2s per cent. Important cities which show increases in the arrests are : Chicago 70 per cent., Albany 90 per cent., Pittsburg 25 per cent., Indianapolis 400 per cent. .
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2
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172PROHIBITION IN AMERICA Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2
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