Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ix months of1920, as against 6,500,000 gallons for similar purposes inthe first six months of 1919. There you have the basis for a great deal of illicit liquordealing, because not a quarter of this withdrawn liquoris used legitimately for manufacture, in medicines andotherwise, but is used and sold as whisky, for drinkingpurposes. In quality the whisky is about the same,mostly, as the ordinary case goods of former days, and itretails at the time this is written for eight to twelvedollars a quart. The proof that three-quarters of thiswhisky is being sold, ultimately, to drinkers is in the factthat six months ago this same quality of liquor broughtsixteen to twenty dollars a quart, and even more. Bondedwhisky may be obtained—in October—for as little as forty-eight dollars a case, the buyer taking the chances on it.In pint flasks this stuff retails for four to five dollars.Drug stores get about that for it, sometimes more. Ofcourse there is no market price—the dealers get what they
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can—but the supply is plentiful and prices are going down in accord with the well-known law of supply and demand which operates even with illicit booze. The process of obtaining this whisky is simple in its beginnings, but becomes complicated as it progresses, ancas tricky as the craft of the operators can make it, which is very tricky. A wholesaler gets a permit to withdraw any amount he wants, five barrels or 100, or 500, stipulating a legitimate use therefor, as under the terms of the law. Now he may want the liquor for that purpose or he may want it for other purposes. Seventy-five per cent of the time he wants it for other purposes. It seems lamentably obvious that about that proportion of the wholesalers, either in the first instance or subsequently, are bootlegging in their own way, by wholesale. We have nothing to do with the legitimate wholesaler,who wants the liquor for medicines, toilet articles, and soon, for the numerous uses to which it is put in the manu-factures. The illegitimat

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