Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-04

the past eighteen months.
LOUIS De Give, proprietor Of Ds Gives
Opera House has hurt At.
lanta very much, and last fall the effect
was so visible and 80 appalling that a vote
taken at that time would have repealed it
by q majority of at least 1900 Since then
the effect of the great Southern boom,
sffscte1 Alabama and Tennessse, has reach
tate. revived speculation and given new
hope to people. The evil effects of pro-
hibition on the pro:p,rity of the
city were felt at f:s5 by the real
estate interest. Rents fell in store
property on an aversgs % per cent; on
dwellings about Is per cent. At q
natural co nseq uence real estate deprecated
IN proportion, and vacant lots became
drug on the market. The secon1 interest
affected were the working classes We
have lost, maybe, 1000 merchants and
labore:s, who went away, many of them
with their families. Toe third intsres;
were the pers1ns come ct ID with the man
uf.cture aud sale OF prohibited liquors. A
majority Of them have been ruined in pGt
or In toto, and many of them have left the
tJwn.
The exodus from our city from July l,
1885 to July l, 1887, has en- very large,
and l can give you one proof which is vary
conclusive. Among my tenants have
two parties dealing In secondhand furni-
ture, Mr.. I've, aud Mr.. Hsyeo,d. auc-
tionee-. During the year they have been
overwhelmed by offers Of furniture for
sale, but thare was no demsni fo1 same.
Their stores were chccSful with these or
ticles, but nobody would come to buy,
and they had to stop pu chasing the
aCctioneer Offered for sale his goods on the
streets for months, AID then stopped in
dsspsir. 1 noticed the SINE phenomenon
in 1873, after tie great panic, when At
lauta lost great many cit;z ms. You have
seen that since July l, 1886, We have
usarly ceased building in Atlanta. If it
had not been for the Diving Park Expo
sitio1, the Capitol aad the United ates
Barracks, our laboriog classes would have
been very miserable. You know how
many stores are vacant. On Wheat stree
we have the John Thompson blocks, seven
brick stores together. Before prohibition
they were rented at $50 ap'ecs pr month.
Now they are there standing, AMI have
been for months, with one single tenant in
in it, aad this tenant has taken two OF
them for $25 per month inste I'd Of $40, a
diminutton OF 40 per cent; the balance
are empty, and th,y oo1ld be rented, I
believe, for $40 api-cs.
John Stephens, Police Commis5ioner.-
Prohibition has injured Atlanta in many
ways. 1t has driven away the wholesale
aud retail liquor trad,, in which there
were ab1ut one and a half million dollars
invested which paid to the city taxes and
licensts, while the people of the city buy
as much liquor as heretofore. Atlanta
sends out of town, perhaps, 81 GOO p r day
TO ray for it. Then we have "b?iud
tigers," daily indictments, spies, detsc.
tives, etc showing dsmorsliz Tion reto-
fore unknown. Tho police force has BEEN
increased since prohibition has bsel Of
fnc,, which il not sigu of improved NOR
ais. Rents have fallen off and there are
more empty HOUSES.
F. A. Coker, president Bank of Georgia.
Simply as business proposition l think
Atlanta would hava more business, moro
people aad more money had prohibit on
not obtained.
Theo. schumsn, wholesale and retail
druggist-I cannot FAY that prohibition
has be 1efJ tied Atlanta; it rather seems bus
inss, has de;rease1. OF one thing L am
positive; prohibition has not improved the
morals OF the city, but has increas ID hy-
pocrisy.
L. J. Daniel, confectiooer, in the Kim
bali House BOOK, says from his OBJ eva
ton and experience, prohibition has te.i-
ously injured the retail blsiness CT Atlanta,
and that injury is daily b:c)ming more
and more apparent.
j. Lynch, groceries, My own trade
has fallen of greatly, as has the entire
trade of the city, sipcs prohibition we1t
into forcs. Within the past six months
have ben in Chattanooga, Birmingham
ard other places. In Chattanooga and
Birmingham particularly l saw great
any of my best payiog customers, who
had gone there to remain permanently.
The tide of immigration pro missed by the
Just before last election has
not supplied ths places o: these g,od psy
lug customers / have lost. Within the
so past years prohibition has prohibited
nothing but the pro parity OF our city. 1t
certainly has had q very demorsl z:ng in
fce2c, upon oar cit 'zens and d,iyen men
TO acts OF d ace ot'o1 and hypocrisy. TIE!
drink "a much liq1or az ever they did, bat
tn 3 city gets no revenue from it
W. J. Tanner, of Tanner, Carrier &
Heath, wholesale gree ,rs.-With all defec-
euce to the opinions Of others, l declare,
withcu. hssits on or this !elr CT su :ceR-
jul cont addiction, that Prohibition has
btea preju1iciil 20 the prosperity OF At
lanta. 1t hes destroyed the harmony
wdich had before existed; it dceJ not pro-
bib;t, IS intoxication is sbIut as fr;que1t
now es betyre the restiic ion; taxes have
been increased by increased assessments;
and rents have b Ell greatly reduced. A
for an estate. the sssesse d
value of one piece Of property has been in
creased fifty per cent, while the rent ha,
decreased thirty-seven per cent. Oar char
ter restricts the ely tax to one
and one half per cent; yet, the
bride is taken off AMI the assessors
have made Us all rich (?). Taxes do
no. stop here; everyone, from the impovtr-
is ned boot-bl 4ck TO the opulent banker is
taxed. So goeat are the emergencies of
our Dope ed treasury that the officials are
trying to acquire more territory, in the
hope of relief If ecoro ny and prosperity
were to follow in the train of prohibi ion,
then why this actual crusade against the
tax payer? Ifprohibition ha, swept vice
and immortality from our city, why have
ten addit onal policemen ard a standing
army of detectives been required? Why
ad iitionsl courts, sitting in almost con-
tinual sessioo? Recently an AilMta pro.
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