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Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1922, Page 2

A TIDAL WAVE OF WETNESS.

. An article of remarkable interest appears in “’Leslie’s Weekly” (of New York), dated June 3. 1922, from the pen of Samuel Hopkins .Adams, one of the f oremost journalists in the States. This article explains how tlie consumption of wine in the United States has now reached the amazing total of 100.000000 sralione per annum. The highest mark in pre-prohibition days was certainly not above 75,000.000 gallons. An increase of 33 per cent, is certainly an unexpected development of. the dry regulations! Yet this manufacture and consumption are almost wholly within the law. Although it is legal to make and sell “near beer.” Mr. Adams shows that about 10.000.000 barrels of “lawless” /beer were manufactured in 1921. the i bulk of it being produced in private ■ homes. Much of this finds its way Ito the saloons, which are operating more and more openly in the larger cities. There are probably 1000 saloons in New York City and about 1500 in Philadelphia. The legalising of t.l:e immense wineindustry makes a fascinating tale. Where, before Prohibition, the Californians had made; their wines and sold them at low prices in competition with the more favored foreign vintages, they now sold grapes, the raw material of wine, in such quantities and at such nr ices as .had never been dreamed of. 86 000 awes of new vineyards were added to the Californian plantings in 1921. an increase of 21 per cent, of the total acreage. “The railroads of the country carried in 19&1 about 400.000.000 tons of grapes. Gn the basis of pxpert manufacture. one ton yields 150 gallons of ’vine; but. as a matter of fact, the home manufacture method stretches it out to more than 200 gallons. Aeco-nt-;na the former basis, however.. 60.000.000 gallons are thus to bp reckoned :mon. at the smallest estimate, as having been derived from railroad shipment. “Tmnorfed raisins give a significant el no to what i« going on. The year 1920 saw ten times as many raisins imnorted *l= in (he four previous years nut together. Of course this may have been in' rc«nnn«e to A sudden and passionate addiction to rice nudding on the part of the American nublic; but the rice-growing figures fail to support the hypothesis. There is nt least ground for suspecting that the raisin in this manifestation. renresents that, potentiality known a« “kick.” Similarly, currant imports doubled in the four years from 1916 to 1920. Taking all elements into consideration, it is bv no means an extreme estimate to set the figure of 100.900.000 gallons of as the present yearly rate of production of this country. The former high mark was certainly not over 75.000.000 gallons. Tn view of the facts recorded above, it is no wonder that Mr. Adams declares that “we are becoming, perhaps have already become, a nation of home brewers and home vintners.” The New Zealand voter wants to knew —“ls Prohibition a success.” This article shows that it is not. and never can be. Vote Continuance!—46.

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