Facts That Will Please All Except the Liquor Trust by Milton C. Wilcox

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 15, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 36.

Facts That Will Please All Except the Liquor Trust

By Milton C. Wilcox

It May Be Interested — Liquor Business and Prosperity

Compiled by M. C. Wilcox, from United States Census Reports

Fifteen Leading Industries, Each of Which Consumes Over $150,000,000 Worth of Material, Compared with the Liquor Business	Amount paid for material	Per cent of value of products paid for material
Smelting and refining lead	$168,958,076	91.0
Sugar and molasses refining	244,752,802	88.5
Flour and grist-mill products	619,971,161	87.0
Smelting and refining copper	196,736,986	81.7
Iron and steel, blast-furnaces	178,941,918	77.2
Leather tanned, curried, and finished	191,175,073	75.8
Steel works and rolling-mills	441,204,432	65.6
Cotton goods	282,047,648	63.8
Boots and shoes	197,363,495	61.7
Slaughtering and meat packing, wholesale	706,230,069	52.5
Bread and other bakery products	155,999,318	52.5
Men's clothing	185,793,436	52.2
Steam railway cars and shop construction	151,140,250	48.8
Foundry and machine-shop products	278,074,203	40.5
Lumber and timber products	183,786,210	31.7
Liquors — distilled, malt, and vinous	129,851,855	27.0

Of all these great industries, the liquor business uses the least material, and pays the smallest percentage of products for materials. And its products are a curse and only a curse to any land.