Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-12
Who Lies, HenOh or POOrmans

Iohs Eda0r e Register:
MR. EDUToR:-A Little space in you pa
FER 10 reply to the charge Cf Col Poorman
hat / Was in BellaiTe and even in his
Office With my pockets stuffed to overflow.
irg with prohibition statistics, which are
falsehcods from beginning to end" The
ColOrel bases this charge upon the Nc
Dorgal statistics, which have been proven
by that great Republican Mills Gardner to
ne ia he. Here is McDoUgsfs version, his
6gur, 5 are for year ending.
June so, 1855
Dealers in al kinds Of iquors"~......-."""t5,S99
Dealers in mat lquors.-.--"--.--"-..-. $50
Total ........,.... . ...-.-........"".~...l5,7So
September /, lSSG-
Number who had paid the State tax~~"~"IO.ssl
Decrease. .... 5,lO4
Retail liquor eealsrs.- li,sO
Increase from Sept. 1 lSSS......--.... 1850
Hon. Mills Gardner, long ago, while 9
loysl Republican, exploded these statistics.
Mr.. Gardner shows that Mr.. McDougal
computes the number of retail liquor deal
ers in Ohio who p1id the United States tax
for the year ending June 80, 1888, to wit:
l5.735-with the lumber of dealers who
paid tax urGer The Scott law from June 20,
1883, 10 September, 1883, to wit: 1851
and from this concluded that the Scott law
closed 5000 saloona The premises berg
wrong the conclusion also is wrong. The
comparison for the year ending June 30,
1884 (the year Of the Scott law with the
preceding year can only correctly be made
with the number who paid the United States
revenue tax. and not with the number who
paid the Scott law tax. During the year
ending June 80, 1884, there were at least
1880 druggists and other retail liquor deal.
ers in Ohio, who did not nor were they re-
uuired to pay the Scott law tax. The Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, wrote MIR.
Gardner, July IA, 1884, as follows: THE
number of retail hquor dealers in spirituous
and fermented liquors in Ohio during the
fiscal year ending June so, 1884, are as fol
lows: Retail liquor dealers 1914; retail
dealers in malt liquors, 500; making a total
of 1850" Mr.. Gardner says: Now, if
We compsre this with the number of dealers
for the year before, we have for the year
1858 1875 and for 1884, 1850, the num-
Der ltss during the first year OF the Scot
law 2,225, paid the Scot law tax to Sep
TENDER, 1883, 1851; drug stores not
faxed $500; those who paid the tax
after September, 379: making 8 tota!
of 1850" ls that "tslsehood from begun
nIrg 10 end2 Is not Mr.. Poormsn assert
ing q falsehood whea he ssserts hat the
s. DIT law killed 5,ll4 saloons? Again,
McDougal leaves out Of view the number OF
saloons between September l, 1854, aud
Nov, mber, 1884, when the Scott law was
declared unconstitutional Then the Liquor
Dealers Association Of Cincinnati complain
ed through the papers Of that city that 400
saloons were running in the city without
having raid the SCOT Law tax, and Prot,
Wm q Frosr. s. scholar and Christian gen.
tlen az, wrote the l. 5 lateraal Revenue
Dstar,meat ;or the nun5sc OF honor sellers
in the liz htes nh 6is,rIc', aud thla Is the
reri,: In July, 1857, a year before the
S,ur lar rock etc, there Stre a this DIS
triyy }. 800 retail liquor dealers. In July,
In ,jutV" 4,"5het r II F22s S9g3s. 4:!UU;
. $500. L. November, leSi, when 1t was de.
: elared Unconstitutional, ,here were / 200"
Thus the bucks cf the above department
show an increase Of about 3 0 saloons in
the Eighteenth district. POT. Wallace also
wrote the Internal Revenue Department
and found BY their reply that the volume OF
LIQUOR increased under the Scott Law. These
are not tails hoods from beginning to end"
but truth, and the mar who contradicts 1t
must go back of the record Of the l.. 5. In-
terusl Revenue-who nowis peddling about
lying statistics to blind the people, Hsnch
or PcGrm8n2 ). L. hENCH