Excerpt from Wooden Horse: Or America Menaced by a Prussianized Trade Probably you will meet with a smile the state ment that America is spending 50 each year for drink. The people have no realiza tion of this fact. What is the relation of that appalling waste to the successful conduct of the War? Money is the first warrior to the front in any conflict. Before men or munitions must come the raising of vast sums of money. The first step of the American government-in this war was the floating of a two-billion-dollar loan and the introduction of a bill to increase taxes by as much more. By cutting Off our expenditure for drink we could have taken care of that first great Liberty Loan and could have bought a fleet with the change. If the drink expenditure for 1917 had been wiped out, every family in the United States could have purchased $100 of the Loan. Possibly the drink expenditure would not have been invested in the war loan. But certainly one of three things would have been done with it. It would I) have been spent for Liberty Bonds; (2) would have been spent in the promotion of legitimate industry; (3) would have been spent for legitimate commodities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.