The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-12
LIQUOR WAVE
COST MILLIONS
REVENUE OF NATIONAL GOV.
EMINENT IS CUT DOWN r
BY LARGE AMOUNT.
Less Drinking Than Before Accord.
ing to the Report of Federal
Finances.

Washington, August THE wave
OF prohibition that has been sweep
ing over the United States in the last
fdw years cost the government ST.
GAL ,97S.42 I'M revenue during the ifs
cal year ended with June 80. The
LOSS Is figured from a comparison
with the returns from spirits and fer
mented liquors in the fiscal year pre-
ceding. OF this big sum the heaviest
loss wals traceable to the decreasing
manu- facture and use of whisklies
Beer, porter and other similarly fer
mented liquors came next m the pro-
portion OF lost revenue to the govern
The Alabama Experiment.
Alabama has the courage OF its
conviction. 1t IS certain that it can
make prohibition prohibit 1t re-
mains certain of this even after it has
made an attempt and still finds citi-
zens doing and saying Things which
no man ever would do or say in any
state where prohibition prohibits so
effectively that nobody could get
drunk In Alabama, as elsewhere,
much OF the responsibility for fail
ure fails upon the rattlesalale at this
season Of the year. But even in the
midst OF the rattlesnake sea- on the
Alabama Legislature has been called
to meet in special session and supple
ment the present prohibition law
with either laws so drastic and so
all embracing that nothing can get
away.
The Alabama bills now proposed
are four in number The first OF
ahese is a proposed statewide act
perfecting the present law in places
where Il has been found weak. The
second is aimed at corporations au-
horized TO do a business in liquors,
and which are operated under what
are called expansive charters" Such
charters have, in Alabama, been
claimed to authonize sales by COM
parties holding them Alabama now
proposes seeing to it that such au-
thIorzatlon can be no longer claimed
The third act is to authorize NUM-.
cipalties to Improve and amend any
state Legislation On any way found to
be necessary to make it apply quick
~ and effectively to any local condi.
Tions existing. This act promises
great things. After it gets to working
he NEWS from Alabama is sure to be
interesting. What munlcipaltie:
would do with and to a law of tha,
kind Is as yet an untold story, blu;
enough OF it can be told in advance
TO serve as assurance that Alabama
would not only have a halcyon anC
vocaferous time with it but she
would have to let the rest OF lis EN-.
joy it with her.
And after all, the real source OF
the evil would not he touched. The
JOINT drug store, retaihng the vilest
M liquors at the highest prices
would still remain, and no law which
Alabama can ever pass will rid her
OF it. In fact, we know nothing which
can ever rid her of it. The climate
of Alabama ds salubrious. The NOR.
tahty rate there is not high. The
health OF the people is good, and Sc
far as whisky for ordinary medica,
uses goes, they might be willing to
have the NATIONAL retail liquor license
wiped off the federal STATUTES D.
pY- sFeursoparI cup ske.ugr elr 9Iog7
the aMter mocc asin to reckon with
On no such squirming foundation
IAN the Sovereign State of Alabama
1uild prohibition structure whdcil
win endure