The sun., 1916-01-30
THE AGITATION AGAINST LIQUOI
HAS AFFECTED THE
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The raid prosperity which years ago. against
large industries extended rapidly affect all business
closely
inteeated that injury part of injury the
industrial liberty The raid Which began on the poad and
the big industrial corporations with the tainted
than that raised the liquor trade which will
if encouraged lead to the results
The agitation against of the largest industries the
United States raid prosperity. 1t organized raid
destroy 600 business capital the annual dis
country deprive people wages
The amount in invested in the manufacture of alcohol in this
there further investment of than $500 00o0o0 which
capital invested real and Besides this
capital which invested the dis
bution of liquors. the trade annually into the United States
Municipal Governments sa25oOoooo the
license fees
The figures the figures
wood who chairman of the Committee Ways and Means
the sixysecond and sxythrd Congresses, and in detail
follows Two hundred and twenty million hundred
thousand dollars paid to the Federal Government internal
taxes o on M m @ AS as customs d taxes Gn m
making total of S325OoO 900 which the liquor trade paid
in this 50 that the business raiders who
centerng their raid this particular trade the time
and about 900 the Of the States and cities
sides DESTROYING billion and quarter dollars Of business capital
their property but also their means of livelihood
Puritanism further in the witch burning days
old Salem than these raiders would only destroying
and capital but placing people physical
straitjackets. as rigid that
in an insane hospital
They would make Pharnacopoia and give defni
poons, and classify that which Noah sought
produce when the subsidized and he planted
make the earth smile again
They would from the only the liquor
but the tobacco culture and
pohbtonss have also declared that tobacco poison the
and in their formal appeal Congress they declared
rural districts and rural States large
their inefficient and and place the residents
of those under Federal and State control This
would be for tyranny the people living the districts
the majority but with fully half people
United States living under municipal radical
departure from the principles Of American
proposed by the widest religious fanatics who preached
with the sword and torch.
pro
pose farce 1t prohibit the sale and
liquors 1t would prohibit liquors
the of liquors 1t would legaze the moonshne stills
the South make popular family stills and brewee such
every plantation the old Puritan days
stock build distng and brewing plants
the stockholders The prohibition
would be effected by the Hobon Amendment
Constitution like propositions for State
the business d selling of the distribution liquors other
distributed by the machinery
oped the greatest commercial nation in the world which
national prosperity only be maintained
The prohbitionsts of to-day unlike prohbitonsts
other time. They raiders and their fight
centred just the raids the railroads.
banks and the business corporations They
and business the the making liquors.
They should label their ship the
those vessels that raid
Destroyer"
The prosperity Of the liquor like that business
States and communities where the people
follow the old principles of fair regulation of business The egt
trade has had to the illicit prohibition
just other lines Of business have