Continued from Page 494.) they all, said they would enforce One aspect of the danger of Prohibition to the rural sections of the US.A., however, was brought forward in the evidence, which is: rarely referred to. That is, the manner in which the farmer into bootlegging.
In many parts of the country farmers, it has been known for a ong time, have been engaged bootlegging. - It transpires in practically all the. states many farmers are either actively engaged in the manufacture of "hootch" or are leasing their bootleggers for operations A still costs about ten thousand dollars (say £2,000) but with its capacity of 800 gallons per day it is paid for in less than a doubt being driven to the farms. In No#th Dakota it is seems scarcely exaggerated." The underworld is ruled by the bootleggers and organized in a manner that makes the enforcement of law almost impossible, with gigantic financial power in every direction. The sooner it is frankly admitted by the authorities that this wretched Eighteenth Amendment is beyond the possibility of decent enforcement, the better for this country's internal well-being. Ten years ago there was a school of thought that saw Prohibition as an unworkable idea from the very start, predieting considerable trouble, But. wildest predictions proximate the result during this first ten years. la's pattern so near perhaps hard to see why the' United States Government. does not adopt such a system en bloc. 'The' thing could be done without much investigation, for the Canadian system of regulation of the liquor laws is the admiration of all interested observers in the.
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