PROHIBITION: Cheap Insurance

There hardly ever arises an industry, great or small, licit or illicit, which does not, in turn, give rise to other industries. As Jonathan Swift rhapsodized:

So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey.

The great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate...

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