The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-11-01
IMPORTS OF LIQUOR INCREASE
UNDER PROHIBITION, WEALTHY
ARE BRINGING IN CHAMPAGNE

Copyright, 1921. by NEA servicel
Bootleggers make their big profits.
not In selling by tho quart. but IN
selling In cnse lots to the rich man.
Men high up evadc the lhw and
get away with Il. Small retailers
and petty b%ootloggers are arrested
more often than the big operators.
Pure liquor. struggled. legally i'm.
ported or Withdrawn from bonded
warehouses. Ia being consumed by
the nan With money.
A national Investigation made for
The Evening Herald by NEA Ser
vice into the Gripping of prohibition
enforcement develops this outstand.
Ing significant fact;
Imports OF liquor and wines for
the pear ending june 80, 1921, to-
tailed 2,026,a SIS gallona-almOat twice
as much as was imported during the
wet year 1siS-l9. and 20 times as
much as last year.
The rich man, armed with money
aud influence. finds II so easy to get
imported booze out OF warehouses
that champagne lately has come into
modify.
Rather than take a chance on get
ting a fake article In whisky, The rich
man In turning to champagne. II
can be bought In New York. deliv'
cred TO home or place OF business.
Tor $3.50 to $3.50 a case. The profit
is large, for the import value Ia less
than S22 a case.
Champagne. like other imported
spirits and wines, In admitted for
medicinal purposes. The surgeon
general OF he United States has spe.
Gifted imported champagne for use
in Public Health service hospitals,
because imported champagnes are
properly aged, while domestic brands
are likely TO be young and highly
acid.
Not all the liquor Struggled from
tho bahama Islands reaches conaum-
ers through rum runners at Miami.
savannah and other coast points. 4
Rich men with yachts have gone out
beyond the three mile limit to obtain
cargocs from rum'running vessels.
trcat Jump I'm Liquor ImpOrtatlons. |
The accompanying table shows
that liquor .mportations last year
tool u tremendous jump over the
year ending June 80, 1920. Whisky
importations were six times as much.
champagne 10 times AS much. wines
% times as much.
In August OF this year there wal
still another big jump In whisky
Imports There was also a drop In
the price paid for IL abroad. from
Sb.36 a gallon to t4.i5 n gallon.
During August alone Gs.isl gal.
Ions OF whisky werc imported, more
than four times as much as tho
monthly average for the previous
year O6.270 %gallons).
II this rate keeps up the United
lg22-wili import Si7,9S2 gallons OF
whisky IA against 1890 gallons
last year. This would be 22 times
as much as was imported in 1919
1920. which was largely "A wet year.
for the eighteenth amendment did
not go into effect until January 1G.
1920.
At the increased rate of importa.
ton. this years imported whisky.
costing S3.394,4i7 abroad. would
have 2 bootleg value OF more than
SmuEglcd Across Canadian border.
Canadian records how hat more
Scotch whisky was imported into
the Province Of Quebec last year
than In the entire ten years prcvi
GUS That most Of II was smugglcd
into the United States is obvious.
Analyzing United States import
figures shows that t%wo.thirds Of all
the whisky imported during Tho year
ending jun" 80, 1890, came in dur.
ing tho month Of June alone. Tho
entire years importation OF gin ex-
ccpt nine gallons came In during
that month.
Bootlcggcrs' profits on imported
liquor distracted from warehouses
'E higher than profits on smuggled
goods. 'Pull' or other articles /
may get liquor out Of warehouses
on permits. But II costs y lot OF
money to get booze smuggled from
the bahama Islands. from Canada. |
Mexico and Cuha