Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-15
MOSS ON PROGRESS
OF PROHIBITION
LAW ENFORCEMENT

Acting Federal Prohibition Director
w. ID. Moss, announces the receipt of
the second anniversary statement of
r. A. Haynes as Federal Prohibition
Commissioner, which sets forth the
progress of prohibition law enforce
ment since his assuming the task,
June II, 1921.
Much has been accomplished in the
way of regulation of Withdrawals, use
of paddock proceedings, convictions of
'higher-ups,' cooperation of state,
county, and municipal officials with
prohibition enforcement agents,
Wholesale drug violations and heavier
sentences.
When we measure the progress of
prohibition law enforcement from
the starting point, we are amazed at
the comparison of the situation today
with those of prohibition days
when 1t was common sight to see
as many as so saloons in few blocks
of a busy city street, and go down
that same street today and find those
same buildings occupied with other
business firms that are a benefit to
the public and to the nation. This
has diverted into the channels of
legitimate business vast amount of
money, which cannot have other than
a most wholesale effect upon bust
ness conditions in general.
1T is an unacceptable fact that any
thing which lifts the standard of liv-
ing on the part of our working class
will of necessity contribute towards
better business conditions" says Com
missioner Haynes. ut has increased
the purchasing power of the working
mans family of necessities and even
luxuries, made a more thrifty working
class, and physically better working
class, 1t has improved credit, bills
are more promptly paid and obliga-
tons met. Every business man knows
that anything which contributes to-
ward the re-establishment of credit or
that assists in development of keen
er moral sense for obligation it is a
most needed and welcome force in the
business life of our country. No one
can read these things and escape the
conviction that prohibition is an
economic force lying at the very heart
| OF Americas survival in the CONNER
cial world
Much propaganda, which seems to
be nationwide, has been broadcasted
to create the impression that enforce
ment is breaking down, when the very
reverse is true. Especially have they
played up the great amount of liquor
being smuggled to our shores, that
bootleggers may foist their poisonous
wares upon the public as genuine
imported stuff and for which fabulous
prices are paid. The plants making
counterfeit labels and stamps that
have been seized along the New Jer-
sey and New York coasts bear out
this statement.
The following figures on exports
OF distilled spirits from the United
Kingdom of England, Scotland, Ire
land Wales, the main source of sup
ply, precludes the possibility of any
appreeiable amount Of genuine LIQUOR
reaching our shores.
THE export of distilled shirts
from the United Kingdom to Canada
IN 1913 reached i,624,136 proof gal
Ions. The 1922 exports fell to Si3,-
100 proof gallons. The exports to
Canada from the United Kingdom
during the first four months of 1923
were 2l9,52S proof gallons as COM
pared with 279,S79 in the first four
months of 1922. This is less than Al
per cent of the amount imported from
the same source in the prohibition
year of 1923.
In the West Indies and the BAHIA
mas, however, we find their imports
from the United Kingdom increased
from 94,l4O proof gallons in 1918 to-