180 The dStock Market Crash—dAnd After 
tax. The fact that it is a mischievous and parasitic 
business is, of course, ignored. For every million 
dollars recovered in taxes by restoring the saloon, 
the nation would pay many millions directly to the 
saloons, and many millions more in impaired 
efficiency of its workers and in productive business 
replaced by a destructive trafhc. 
Moreover, in reply to this plea of loss of taxes, to 
those who allege economic “loss,” Dr. J. M. Doran, 
Commissioner of Prohibition, on June 15, 1929, met 
them on their own grounds of government receipts 
and expenditure. Dr. Doran said: 
“During the nine years since the effective date of 
prohibition the expenditures for the Prohibition 
Bureau, Coast Guard and Customs, incident to the 
enforcement of the eighteenth amendment, total 
$141,179,485. The collections from fines and pen- 
alties and the revenue from taxes on distilled spirits 
and fermented liquors total $460,502,792.76. 
“It is apparent that the collections by far over- 
balance the expenditures. Even if $72,000,000 esti- 
mated in the pamphlet as the cost to the Department 
of Justice for the enforcement of prohibition should 
be added, there would still be a balance of $247,- 
324,307.76 over and above the total expenditures 
accredited to the enforcement of the orohibition 
law.” 
Dr. Doran further disputed the accuracy of the 
$936,000,000 estimate. But from whatever point of 
view, the argument to the pocketbook of the income 
taxpaver is not justified.