The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-09
FACTS ABOUT LIQUOR.
Facts that Cannot Fail to be Read
With Interest.

We clip the following special from
the Lake Charles Press of October Sd
Chicago, October by the de
crease of nearly a million dollars {
. day in liquor production during Jul,
> and August this year from the produc
ton in the corresponding months ir
the last year, it is declared by Chas
Jones, national chairman of the pro
hibitiOn party, that nearly $4,000, O0C
had been saved for the people from
the liquor Golfers. Mr.. Jones said he
based his statement on official figures
received from the internal revenue de-
partment at Washington.
1.-The report shows" said Mr..
Jones, "that there has been a decrease
Of s., S5S, 4S7.O3 in the internal reve-
nue. receipts from taxes on the liquor
traffic during July and august of this
year, as compared with the cores
pOnding months of last year, and a
decrease in the value of liquor pro-
duction of SIS, 1873, 1910.
"These figures are the best proof
that prohibition does prohibit, which
many friends of the liquor interests
attempt to deny.
ut simply means that on the mar
ket estimates of the liquor makers
themselves, more than SIS, 200, 900 of
the peoples money that went for liquor
products IN the same two months of
1907 has gone to legitimate business
in the last two months.
IF this remarkable saving {indicat- |
ing possible annual saving for 1908 .
Of more than third of million) can .
be registered DIS a result OF the pres
ent scattered areas Of prohibition land,
whose laws are administered largely
by hostile officials, the result of Ma
tional prohibition, enforced by a
large party pledged to that duty mani
testify would be beyond all present
The spread Of our movement has
caused this decrease in these two
months of more than sixteen and one
lalt per cent in the value of liquor ,
Produced At the same rate. in
year the total value of liquor produc-
ion would decrease by $349, 1872,
1920.
"from July !, 1908, to August 3lst
here were 500 (plus) retail liquor t
tealers who went out of business, as |
shown by the fact that the decrease in {
he retail dealers special tax of $25 {
ach was 1924 269.07 during that time. t
"Of the 5S,0O0,00O odd which has t
'een saved the public only compare S
i've small portion would have gone to c
Jncle Sam from the brewer and dis r
iller as revenue tax. f
1T is most significant that the BIG. Fl
er decrease is in the production of Il
eer and revenue receipts from it. Of "
he S5S, 1913, 1000 drop in liquor pro- o
uction, $2l, 5S5, S62. 80 represents the W
'hlskey production decrease is much b
reater, reaching 1886, 612, 9OS.20. 81
This bigger decrease in beer than tt
hiskey production is an entirely new N
ecord for the brewer, and is addi- p
onally remarkable in occurring dur
lg the months when more beer usual
: is consumed.
I'm July and August, year ago, v,
-3,55S, 64O.S9 in revenue tax, at 81. 90 o.
barrel, was paid on the beer pro.
lced in the United States, while this ri
ear in those two months the revenue
'ceipts from the same source only
cached 81, 727, 1895. 48. The total reve- hs
he receipts on whiskey equalled $780, al
3,3l6.l4, while in the latter they fell &c &c
SIG, 22l ,057.S1, while beer is taxed ga
Sl.0O barrel, the tax on whiskey ST
7erages S1.lO on the gallon. The at
irrel OF beer sells for 500 and the VI Vi,
sllon of whiskey for 1925 on the he
'erage. 1t is on that basis that the
ference in the production values are
cured" =.