Over $50,000,000 Annually Apart from Bootlegging: Householders Making Their Own Drinks in Increasing Volume New York has probably three times that number. Chicago has quite as many. And when it is known that man, who otherwise is a law-abiding citizen, can make twenty gallons of. "hard" liquor for five dollars it is not to be wondered at. For he can take 100 lbs. of corn sugar (costing $3.50), with three gallons of malt syrup (costing $1.50) and get ten gallons of 180-
From Ove Owx San Francisco, Sept. 6.
One aspect of Prohibition in the United States, often lost sight vf in the discussion of the larger problem fof bootlegging is the stupendous expenditure of money for "home-brew" materials and equipment. Reliable estimates show that, for such things as malt syrup, grapes, Bottles and caps, corn sugar and so forth, the American people spend about' sis -handred million dollars annually (say £120,000,000). mention a probably much larger sui expended on bootleg wide of Prohibition represents. a warning to its protagonists in Great Britain, for this ineffectual enforeement of one law spells the violation of several others.
This $600,000000 is absorbed somewhat as follows: $130 million en home-made beers, $220 mi wines, $100 million or more Tiquor and other concoction: million on carbonated beverages and flavours to use with whisky and ether heavy "intoxicants, and £50 million on machinery for serving all,
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