If the liquor money could be turned into legitimate and honorable American trades and industries, it would produce the greatest financial boom that this country has yet seen. The wheels of every factory and industry in America would buzz with activity; the marts of trade and commerce would be booming with merchandise; and the universal cry would not be, "Give me a job," but, "Give us more men." Only about five per cent of the money spent for liquor returns to the masses of the people and enters again into the legitimate channels of trade. The other ninety-five per cent goes to the liquor trust, and the government, to pay the salaries of the officials who collect the revenue and look after the criminals, paupers, insane, orphans, and other victims of this infernal business.
AGAIN and again we hear it said that "prohibition does not prohibit." Is it ever suggested that regulation does not regulate?