The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-24
More Than Nine Tenths of
Money That Went For.
Booze Now In Legiti-
mate Channels.
BETTER CONDITIONS
THROUGHOUT OREGON
Comparisons Made BY Com
mittee of One Hundred Pres
ents- Convincing Proof That
Prohibition Does Prohibit.

| Portland. Ore, May 23.-Portland
Ii spending only $2s1.641 annually
for liquor under prohibition compar-
ed with $S.s63,32s spent In wet years.
says A. Nj. Churchill. chairman of the
legal committee of the Committee of
One Hundred, which was instru-
mental In Kidding the State Of the IL
quor traffic.
| Mr.. Churchill's figures are based on
the liquor importatons for the month
of April. which he believes are fairly
representative of what the normal
shipments will be for a year.
| Since prohibition became effective
January 1, Mr.. Churchill has COM
| piled the statistics on importations
under the dry law and compared them
with the figures on liquor consump-
ttion and expenditures for ulioqdtalnit
| ton and expenditures for liquor be-
fore last January.
Based on the volume of April ship
ments Mr.. Churchill has figured
that Portland Is spending only rs
/ per cent AZ much money for whiskey
as was spent in former years. only
1.s per cent as much for beer and less
than per cent as much for all kinds
OF liquors collectively.
| II would require an ordinary brew
cry only eight days TO turn ont all
the beer that Portland costumes in
year, at the present basis. says Mr.
Churchill
Same for Rest of State.
| His deductions relating to Port
land. he says, probably will apply in
substantially the same way to other
| Mr.. Churchill has obtained from
the. official records the fact that Port
land imported in the month of April
an average of 1864 packages of
whiskey. each package containing
two quarts. In the same month an
aggregate Of 1885 shipments of beer
were received.
into the city in the month of April.
at sl25 a quart. liz sls41o. On the
basis of the April values the impor-
tations for an entire year would be
$4,000
The estimated value Of the whiskey
consumed in Portland In wet years.
according to Mr.. Churchilrs figures,
was $2.94a. 06n.
The percentage Of uhiskey shipped
in. as compared with former years
! consumption. therefore, is only rs per
I cent
! The value Of the beer shipped into
the city in April, at an average price
OF 81 for each twenty-four quarts. was
$1,000. At this rate the value of the
| annual beer consumption would be
| s6o,Teo.
The estimated value OF beer con-
sumed in Portland before the State
went dry was ss.120,27s. says Mr..
| Churchill.
The percentage OF beer consump-
ton now 10 oriy t.s. compared with
the consumption in wet years.
Mr.. Churchill then combined the
figures Of beer and whiskey ship
ments. showing that the value OF the
aggregate importations for the month
OF April was $23,47e. or s2s1,s4i an
nuall,.
Under Half Million.
His estimated consumption of beer
and whiskey for an average wet year
at $6,06S,326, he says, does not in
clude a probable additional expendi-
ture OF 100000 annually for wine.
Mr., Churchill's object in making
| these estimates was to show that the
! money now being spent out of the
with the money that was sent out
before prohibition went into effect.
Much has been said about the
| enormous shipments of liquor COM
| ing into the State" said Mr.. Church.
i'll yesterday. 'and based on these. a
propaganda Is authoritatively stated
to be in process of organization to
permit our oregon DTeWeTles 10 man
ufacture to meet this enormous de-
mand. To people who are tempted
to be impressed by such arguments
the following comparisons will be
startling:
| Previous to the States going dry
as national committeeman LIebe1
sought The rest of -LieheI
! ticket was made up OF "old guard
Democrats, whose activities in the
past In connection with the hi partisan
alliance with Penrose have made
them notorious in political circles
throughout the State.
Sponsored BY Penrose?
1t has been generally reported In
political circles in this city since the