Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-09-28

sessions having concurrent laws governing liquor
violations a conservative estimate makes the total
fines approximately $40,0O0O0O
Estimated amount of federal assessments and
penalties, $50,000OUO $1,000 special tax 100000;
taxes on spirits, wines, and FORTH $7OOO,OOO;
estimated total, $57,50O,000.
Estimated seizures: Gallons of distilled spirits
and Wine, 100000; estimated value of property
seized during the year. not including property
levied for payment of taxes, nor dstery appar-
atus or other property destroyed, $129O7 ,G934O.
Number of federal indictments estimated 30
600; pleas of guilty, 1900; number of convictions,
21,OOO
During the year 1921 withdrawals of whisky in
the United States amounted to less than 100000
gallons, while official records reveal that before
the eighteenth amendment became effective the
average American yearly consumption of whisky
approximately 133,OOOOOO.
The first six months of present fiscal year there
were withdrawn, tax paid, 11962,322 gallons of
nonbeverage spirits. The quantity withdrawn dur
ing the first six months of last fiscal year
amounted to 22,2711SO gallons, a decrease during
this fiscal year of SO per cent.
The quantity of nonbeverage spirits withdrawn
during the month of December, 1921, on which the
tax was paid amounted to 1,329206 gallons, as
compared with 2,G252S5 gallons withdrawn in De-
cember, 1920, decrease of approximately 100 per
cent. The quantity withdrawn in December, 1921,
when compared with the quantity withdrawn in
October, 1920, 4,372127 gallons, shows a decrease
of nearly 229 per cent.
During the year 1921 whisky brought into this
country from all foreign sources was valued at
S1,541,3SS While during 1920 whisky from all
sources was valued at $1013O01, representing
value of whisky brought into the country and
entered into warehouse.
During the year 1921 whisky to the value of
$G2SG0O was withdrawn for consumption, while
during the previous year whisky valued at $4S5 100
was withdrawn for consumption, an increase of
about 10000 gallons, insignificant, and more than
accounted for by the forging of permits.
AT the end OF the year 1921 the amount Of
267962 proof gallons of whisky valued at SILL
222 remaining in the custom warehouses.
The actual amount of whisky withdrawn tax
paid from custom warehouses-Or consumed
during the year 1921 amounted to 139,6S9 PROOF
gallons. The value of such whisky computed at
$3.50 per gallon amounts to $62SGOO.5O.
In addition to the above facts and figures,
the following may also be emphasized as lndlcat-
ing results Of enforcement:
Disappearance of the open SalOOn abatement OF
open drinking places in public dining rooms pass
ing Of the treating evil, which was recognized as
the greatest contributing agency in the develop
ment of a liquor appetite; closing of whisky cure
and similar institutions; increased saving ac
counts; recOrdbreaking Christmas business; de
creased drunkenness
Wholesale drug companies must now have as
a minimum a $4,000 drug stock must be bons
fde dealers, and sales of liquor must not exceed
10 per cent of the amount Of their gross sales
as drug concern.
All liquor permits authorized for legitimate use
must now bear the signature of the director
the state in which the distillery from which with
drawal is to be made is located.
Last years importation was one-haf OF pc
cent of the total consumption of liquor In Amerlc
the year before prohibition, arrests for drunken
ness were decreased GO per cent and liquor with
drawals were reduced 80 per cent.
Only per cent of all liquor seized and exam
ined today is fit to drink.
Mr. Upshaw Incorporated into his speech
resume by Commissioner Haynes, which contain
the following:
The amendment Is being enforced to an eve
greater extent than many devoted friends antlc
mated and predictions Of opponents and antagor
lists that an "army" would be required an
rebellion would occur in metropolitan center
especially among the foreign element, have ne
been borne out by actualites Instead OF a
"army" results which below are enumerated hay
been accomplished by less than 1000 agent