SIXTY MILLION POUNDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2498, 26 October 1922, Page 2

SIXTY MILLION POUNDS.

PROFITS FOR BOOTLEGGERS

Thus says the Philadelphia “Public Ledger," in announeing a series of articles on “Rootlegging.”—

‘•Rum-runners, using every mode of I ransporliiton available, are smuggling liquor into the United States to build up the enormous bootlegging tea Hie that has already attained siieh amazing proportions the profits are said to be 300,000,000 dollars per annum. “From across seas, from across the Canadian and Mexican borders, from the British West Indies, from Bermuda, a constant stream of liquor is daily pouring, to be received in the United States by bootleggers, who take it, and when they have finished doctoring it. 08 per cent of it goes to you and your friends, while the remaining 2 per cent, tlml is left pure is retained by the bootlegger for himself and his friends.

“Wei judges and juries are keeping whole sections of the country sopping wet."

“Doctors are Hooding with preseriptiotts for liquor homes that prior to Prohibition were drv.”

“Bribery, forgery, perjury—every form of vicious crime—even murder is being committed almost daily to sustain the bootlegger in his nefarous and successful endeavour to build up colossal fortunes at the expense of public bealili and the Constitution of the United States.” Are you going to countenance the development of a* large nefarious traffic of this kind in New Zealand 1 ? These enormous prolits avoid taxation, and you will be the scape-goat who will have to make up the country’s revenue. Vote Continuance. 59