PROOF THAT PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 2

PROOF THAT PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT.

In a recent report, issued by the L'nited States Government, it was stated that the* Federal Government’s income from taxes on alcoholic: beverages had decreased by two million dollars this year. Another proof of decreased consumption is the* numerous failures of breweries and distillers. Among the m was the Hester-Columbus Breweries Company, which gave as a cause of bankrupt!) “decreased demand for beer, adverse legislation, and the voting dry of many States and counties in the last eight years,” and the- Ernest Tosetti Brewing Company, whose treasurer said: “It is a matter of general knowledge* among brewers that the* liquor business in the United Suites has fallen oft more* than thirtyfive per cent, within the* last year.” The* ‘Wall Street Journal”: “Production of whisky in Kentucky in January, 1915, was 1,980,000 gallons, against 6,102,452 gallons in January, ii)i4; in Pennsylvania was 1,073,808 gallons in January, 1915, against 1,552.445 a year ago; and in Maryland, 506,919 gallons, against 918,582. The Kentucky decrease for one month was sixty-six and two-thirds per cent., the Pennsylvania decrease practically thirt) -three per c ent., and the Maryland dealers over forty per cent.”