Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-03

Total business. .... $3l5, 600
prominent business man, Who has
been in q position TO know whereof be
speaks, puts it thus:
Sevensy-two saloons averaging $l2 per
day-fs64 per day, $s5,930 per month.
$3l0, O40 per year.
Wholesale business $4,000.
Total business, $3a5 049.
Probable business Seattle and north
100000. Men aud women connscted,
go. These $50 men spend An average
OF <6uO each per year in town, f15O, 600
Pay revenue in license to city and coun-
~, $500. Worth of msn to city a.
poll. $l2 each, $500. Total profits as,
say 30 par cent, $4,000. Total value OF
these men producers to city and county
say $73,00o. The money sent out Of the
CITY for liquors. 40 far as We are con-
cerned, is iost-$200,O00. Ne fud tina,
our police force costs per month $3.50;
90 per cent. goes for drink. $500. II
some say my estimate OF police expenses
is too high, will say examined the
books Of the Portland police and found
Drunk and diserderly, 1871, so per cent.
drunk and disorderly, 1872, 80 per cent.
drunk and disorderly, 1873, 20 per cent.
oA<A sno cAaotA1ttuh VI N III Ctieo hf
erages above 20 per cent. of all arrests
for the same cause.
Bot what about this 800, 900 sen. to
San Francisco or New Yorkl What of
the $500, 00O, 900 annually spent in the
United States?
When a city spends $4,000 for grain
or dry goods, or msrehandise or land,
that expenditure does some one some
good. But Who thinks that a mans
health or wealth or wisdom is bettered
by whisky
Suppose this leak is stopped. Do You
think the ship will go dosu more
quickly? The money will then b. in
the bands Of the wsrkingmen. They
can spend
In groceries, r.. s25 0OC
In clothing Observation-Disclosures. 10000
~ ouhoinR -.-...... OOl
~ FURNITURE $50. ......'....... lO.UU
10 higher anu semsnts ....... 5000
And then have on deposit $l0O. 600, be-
sides paying every saloon keeper. bis
wife and clerk, each $500 and giving the
city bonus Of revenue Of $25.
Or let as put it in another way. Sup
pose, Just for experiment, We could q
the men Of this town 10 stop drinking
liquor and t. drop the price Of the
drinks into bank till sacred to a fac
tory fund. We could spend in 1856, for
building and stock, 100000. pay the
salaries Of $50 men. $i50.eOo, and clean
mp clear profit of $4,000.
Four hundred houses could have bee.
built last year With whiaky money. Do
you Suppose that carpenters, or hard
ware merchants, or painters. or team
sters, or real estate agents, or anybody
else, would have suffered? why, wee;
the saloon keepers" you say. No; they
wonid every one be furnished with bet
ter business.
Suppose our loeeers had 10000 logs
In q boom AZ the head of q stream
which runs BY several courses, one OF
which 10 the shortest bat ends in a
whirlpool that wrecks one half OF the
logs and browns enc fourth of the men.
Would they use that stream because il
would hasten business? Why ssme
might urRe that doctors and lawyers
and uHdertakers and ministers we're
employed In this way; bus the ioeeers
would cay ve want No ssch risks for
those mems sakes. Bat today. when We
stand At the head of q stream that
swallows at least $500. 00O. coo per an
nam. that browns 10000 men, ths,
brushes l00, $50 women. that causes three
fourths Of the crimes, one half the in
sanity and nias tsnths Of the poverty of
the Union. Tor Of this city, for tina,
natter and the Legislature by almos,
unanimous voice, and the Governor with
e clear business head, and the people
With sigh fer the ruined Of the past,
all propose IN shut the gate toward the
channel. Why, our business men cry
out: Hold yoa will ruin our bust
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