The evening times., 1895-12-17
ARMY OF LIQUOR DEALERS
In This Country There Are 1922
Persons or Firms in the Business.
Average of One Dealer TO Every $50
Men, Women and Children-Tall-
ing OFF In Licenses.

There are 20S,3s retail liquor dealers in
the United States holding licenses from the
commissioner of internal revenue. and A.
5o5 wholesale liquor dealers There are
l0,4S6 others who deal only in malt liquors
at retail, an,l Sc. who sell only malt
liquors 10y wholcsshs, making a total of
229 .0Si. In addition To- these there are l.
40 reciifieFs, AMI i.91i brewers, making
a grand total OF 232 ,235 persons or firms
hohold licenses from the government of the
United States to make and sell intoxiea ting
drinks.
Assuming the population of the United
States 10 be 6 65.0Uo,C0D this gives aE aver
age of one liquor dealer TO every ESQ Deu,
women and children Assuming, again,
that two-thirds OF the population are wo-
men and ch idren a nd temperance people who
do not patronizc saloons, VIII be seen that
there is one drin king place for an average
of ninet y-three men in the country
There has been Il tecIu@d failing oii IN
the number of Licenses issued from previous
years, which is said To be due 10 hard times
Since July there has been steady increase,
which indicates return OF prosperity Dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80, 1921,
there were fifty-four more licenses issued
tu rectifiers than for the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1895. sixty-four more 90 brewers,
ten more 10 wholesale iiqunr dealers. 2.i32
more to retail dealers IN malt liquors. and
7.u3l mon to general retail ,lqdor dealers
The largest number of saloon licenses Is
sued in any one State was 4l.la6 IN New
York. Illinois has the second place with
1883. Oaio 1887 Pennsylvania l4-ll3
and California 1852. Among The prohibit
ton States Iowa scemst 10 have the m,rsf pros
lperuusliquor traffic. She has 10 rectiflers.
Is breweries, sc wholesale liquor dealers,
1851 retail liquor dealers, BIS wholesale
dealers in malt liquors only. making i total
of 5.213 engaged in tue liquor business.
Kansas comes next With 2.5T0 persons aud
firms engaged in ma king and selling nquor,
including 1 rccsfier. brewers, Is whole
sale and ages retail liquor dealers, 0S
wholesale and 270 retail dealers in beer.
IL is a curious fact that there are 63o
more persons and firms engaged III tue
liquor business in the prohibition state OIL
Iowa than in Kentucky. where the manu-
faceare Of whisky is considered fine art
and its consumption an accomplishment
In the state of Maine l.l4S persons are
licensed to manufacture and sell liquor, i'll
the territory of Alaska 81, in OkiaiIona
575, and in the Indian territory 90. Utah
is as free from the whisky business as any
other state or territory. There are less
than 400 saloons, or one to every go of the
popuiat tiou, by the last census. But this
estimate is rot quite fair to Utah, because
the population has grown rapidly during the
last five years, and is now believed to
exceed $50 900. which would give ore saloon
to every 8 70 people. The first district of lli-
uois in which the city OF Chicago is located
had the honor OF being credited with the
largest number of liquor licenscs-rec,if ifiers.
1856: brewers. 81; wholesale liquor dealers,
26l: retail liquor dealers, 1857; wholesale
malt liquor dealers. 203: retail mali liquor
dealers. 73i. making total of 14.sS2.
The Fourteenth district of New York
comes second, with 10, $40
Alaska, Indian Territory, North Dakota
and Vermont are the only states and terri
tories without wholesale liquor dealers.
Alaska, Florida, Indian Territory, Maine
Mississippi, North Carolina, Vermont, and
Wyoming have no brewcries.