p. 509 | SUGGESTIVE FIGURES by California Prohibitionist

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 32.

SUGGESTIVE FIGURES.

By California Prohibitionist

FROM the preliminary report of the commissioner of Internal Revenue, we glean a few figures and facts of general interest as showing an increase in the revenue received from intoxicating liquors, and of special interest in showing the difference in the amount of revenue collected in prohibition and that collected in license States.

The total receipts for spirits was $74,313,206, an increase of $5,007,039 over the preceding year. Fermented liquors yielded $23,723,835, an increase of $399,617 over the preceding year.

Kansas, a prohibition State, paid $183,432, this amount including the tax on tobacco, oleomargarine, and other taxable commodities. Missouri, a high-license State, paid $7,730,608. Iowa, a prohibition State, paid $329,576, and Nebraska, a high-license State, paid $2,248,624. Prohibition certainly affects the production of liquors. Granting that, under present conditions, the consumption is unchecked, which is impossible, give us national prohibition, and where will the supply come from? No supply, no consumption.—California Prohibitionist.