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For years, our bulk wines have gone to the Atlantic and Middle West 

 States, but our efforts to popularize bottle goods have been confined pretty 

 much to the States immediately contiguous to California. 



Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent in the Northwest and 

 Southwest by leading wine firms, and an excellent demand for bottled Cali- 

 fornia wines has been created. But almost over night, these markets, which 

 it took years to develop, are being wiped out by Prohibition. 



Only recently Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Arizona have gone 

 dry. Our winemen took little, if any, active interest in the campaigns waged 

 in those States. The saloon was the only question discussed. If competent 

 speakers had spread the gospel of the grape in those four States, I am sure a 

 considerable number of votes would have been swung into the proper column. 



It is a pity the voters did not understand more about wine, through a 

 previous campaign of education. I believe that if the merits of wine drink- 

 ing had been properly placed before the people of Oregon and Washington, 

 they would not have put it on the same basis as whiskey, viz., a half gallon 

 only to be imported, thus encouraging the use of the stronger beverage, as, 

 with a supply once a month, a good many people will pick the most con- 

 densed form. Wine was not placed on the same basis as beer, because the 

 voters there just didn't understand. 



Our winemen must inaugurate a campaign of education in all the wet 

 States in the Union, and in order to wage an effective campaign, we should 

 employ trained writers to secure at first hand authorative facts and figures 

 showing the sobriety of the wine-producing countries of Europe, and the 

 fallacy of Prohibition in the United States. 



So many conflicting stories about the emergency prohibition measures 

 adopted by the nations at war have been printed in the American press that 

 it is time the public was told the truth. The dry leaders would have us 

 believe that Europe is about to adopt Prohibition. Russia and England are 

 cited as the great examples. Neither are wine-drinking or wine-producing 

 countries and I am sure that if we investigate matters carefully, we will 

 find that neither country is warring on wine but on vodka and whiskey. 



The French Government, while it has outlawed absinthe, is giving wine 

 to its soldiers at the front. 



In the December 12th issue of the Revue de Viticulture, the most import- 

 ant viticultural publication in the world, appears an article headed, "Wine 

 for the Army," in which the editor writes: 



"The five months of hard fighting that our army has so valiantly waged 

 against the enemy, confirms the hygienic information that other wars have 

 brought to light. 



"How many of our soldiers have died from impure water! Thirsty 

 soldiers are tempted to drink water from doubtful sources during forced 

 marches with the result of dysentery or typhoid. 



"The results in the army have demonstrated new proofs of the energetic 

 anti-microbian action of wine. 



"The Balkan war demonstrated that in the Greek army, the regiments 

 using wine always showed better military energy and a superior resistance 

 of typhoid fever over those not using wine and far superior to that of the 

 Turkish army. 



