Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-09-29

sessions having concurrent laws governing liquor
violations conservative estimate makes the total
fines approximately $40000,000
Estimated amount of federal assessments and
penalties $50000,0O0; $1,000 special tax, 100000;
taxes on spirits, wines, and so forth, 100000;
estimated total, $57,500,0O0
Estimated seizures Gallons of distilled spirits
and wine, $4,000; estimated value of property
seized during the year. not including property
levied for payment of taxes nor distillery appar-
atus or other property destroyed $12,907 693. 40.
Number Of federal indictments, estimated, 3d.
000 pleas of guilty. 1900; number of convictions,
21OOO
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
was approximately 133,000000.
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were withdrawn, tax paid 11962,322 gallons of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 The quantity withdrawn DUR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 22,271,180 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The quantity of nonbeverage spirits withdrawn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 1,329,206 gallons, as
compared with 2625,285 gallons withdrawn in De-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 The quantity Withdrawn in December, 1921,
when compared with the quantity withdrawn in
Of nearly 229 per cent
During the year 1921 whisky brought into this
country from ali foreign sources was valued at
81, 541, $685. while during 1920 whisky from all
sources was valued at $1013,091, representing
value of whisky brought into the country and
entered into warehouse,
During the year 1921 whisky to the value Of
S628600 was withdrawn for consumption while
during the previous year whisky valued at $485 100
was withdrawn for consumption, an increase of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
267,9 proof gallons Of whisky, valued at $1211-
222, was remaining IN the custom warehouses.
The actual amount of whisky withdrawn tax
paid from custom warehouses; consumed
during the year 1871 amounted to 1869 proof
gallons The value of such whisky, computed at
$3.50 per gallon, amounts to $628 ,60050.
In addition to the above "facts and figures"
the following may also be emphasized as indcat-
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 liquor appetite; closing of whisky cure
and similar institutions increased saving ac-
counts; Recommending Christmas business; de-
creased drunkenness.
Wholesale drug companies must now have as
fde dealers, and sales Of liquor must not exceed
10 per cent Of the amount Of their gross sales
as a drug concern.
All liquor permits authorized for legitimate uses
must now bear the signature of the director of
the state in which the distillery from which with
drawal is to be made is located
Last years importation one-haf of l per
cent of the total consumption of liquor in America
the year before prohibition, arrests for drunken
ness were decreased 60 per cent and liquor with
drawals were reduced so per cent.
Only 2 per cent Of all liquor seized and exam
med today is fit to drink.
Mr.. Upshaw Incorporated into his speech
resume by Commissioner Haynes, which contains
the following:
The amendment is being enforced to an even
greater extent than many devoted friends antlcl-
pated and predictions of opponents and antagon-
lists that an army would be required and
rebellion would occur in metropolitan centers
especially among the foreign element nave nor
been borne out by actuaties Instead OF an
"army" results which below are enumerated nave
been accomplished by less than 2Oo0 agents