Prohibition in America.

Manawatu Herald, 7 November 1896, Page 3

Prohibition in America.

The following clipping from a late Sdrper 7 « Weekly on the subject of how Prohibition works in America will be read with interest here :— One of the indirect results of prohibitory law is the extraordinary impetus which it gives to the business of keeping an apothecary shop. In almost all no license towns and cities (in America) there appears to be an unusual need of drug 3, and the apothecaries are always among the most thriving citizens of the place. The explanation is that in snch towns an enormous demand arises for ' Jamaica ginger ' — a remedy so alcoholic in its nature that it has baen known to produce genuine cases of delirium tr mem. From the sale ol Jamacia ginger to the sale of unmitigated rum is an easy passage, and apothecary shops in no license towna are often provided with a back office in which this business is carried on in secret. In Waltham, a no HO6QBO town, eight or ten miles from Boston* parly 500 gallons of liquors were seized recently in a druggist's shop kept by a prominent citizen, a fjrmer city officer. Waltham has loag been noted for the number of its apothecaries, many, if not most of whom, are simply liquor dealers, who pay no license, and whose stock of medicine is hardly more than a cover for their illegitimate business."