Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-03

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principal city of prohibition Iowa, increased
in population 30000-a good share of the in
creoso being due TO the annexation OF North
Des Moines University Place, Lyons Park
and Sobastapol The growth not due to an
ncXation was made previous to 1883, before
any efforts to enforce prohibition were made
During the past decade prohibition Yer
mont has fallen off in population.
Since 1850 Nebraska nearly doubled her
population. If prohibitory laws had been in
force it would not have gained Is per cent in
population.
Within the last five years the population Of
prohibition Kansas has decreased
The Indebtedness of Dcs Moiues long ag o
reached statutory limits. Its treasury is
empty and public improvements are not being
made nor contemplated. Its unfortunate cir
cuinstances are due to the attempt to enforce
prohibition.
Prohibition may not increase the rate of in
| terest on loans guaranteed by gilt edged Sc
| curity, but it will increase the taxes on all
| kinds Jf property, which is worse than an
| increase in the rate Of interest, because more
lasting.
Public sentiment in Sioux City is against
| prohibition The law has never been en-
| forced there, consequently the growth has
been greater than that of any other Iowa city
| during the ten years last past.
It is the candid opinion of Gov. Boes OF
| Iowa that prohibition has not lessened the
OWLS Of intemperance in that state.
In some cities and towns Of Kansas at
10 do 70 hnt
| the attempts are futile and very expensive
The cities and towns of prohibition states
| lose the revenue derived from licensing
| saloons, but the saloons are there in greater
number than If license was demanded and
| paid.
| If the field was as free to liquor dealers in
| Nebraska as it is in Kansas ana Iowa, the
| saloons in Omaha would increase twenty to
| one, and in every city and town in the state
| proportionately,
Council Bluffs is quoted as thriving pro-
hibition city. According TO population there
are more open saloons in Council Bluffs than
in Omaha, and most of them pay monthly
fine into the city's treasury for the privilege
of being unmolested as rioters Of statutory
| awl
| The saloonists of Sioux City, Council
Bluffs, Davenport and Dubuque pay monthly
fines for maintaining nuisances." How
much botter can the morals of those towns be
than when the saloonists of that state were
| licensed and regulated by lawi
The prohibitory laws Of Iowa confscated
| property worth good many millions of dol
lars. The big distillery at Des Moines cost
it's owner over 1000, 600. In the face Of
the confiscation the United States su-
preme court has decided any law forbidding
the importation of liquors into any state un-
| constitutional.
There are hundreds of men in Iowa today
who assisted in foisting prohibition on the
state who regret the work done in the inter-
| ests of that law. It has failed in every
| virtue that was claimed for it, and proven
itself veritable anchor to prosperity.
Carroll is thrifty county seat town in
Iowa. The prohibitory laws have all along
been ignored there. The railroad and ex-
press companies have received moro money
for in and out liquor and beer shipments than
for all the merchandise received at the station.
To the cities of Iowa, that grand agri-
| cultural state of the west, the official census
figures are discouraging, and the situation is
very properly laid at the door of prohibition
by the fairest and most conscientious temper
ance mon of the state
In the ten years last past the
growth of Marshalltown, Cedar Rap
ids, Clinton, Iowa City, Fort Dodge,
Mason City and Boone in prohi-
bition Iowa has been but small per cent of
the growth of Kearney, Beatrice, Grand
Island, Fremont Forfolk and other cities of
that class in hign license Nebraska.
The increase in population in Iowa since
1885 is but S7-10 per cent. Compare that
growth with the splendid stride that Ne
braska has made in five years,
Since 1887 the population of Kansas has de-
creased from l,5l4,57S to ,423,4S5 in 1890, a
clear loss OF 81 ,093. Has prohibition aided
the natural development of the state'
The cities of Atchison, Wichita, Topeka,
Leavenworth and Ft. Scott, Kansas, al, con-
tain fewer people than they did two years
ago. What ails Kansas; prohibitions
If 1t we're not for the splendid soil and ex.
haustless coal fields of Iowa, the leading
cities of that state would now he reduced in
population by prohibitions work, as are the
leading cities of Kansas.
The natural growth from births, in new
| state like Iowa should be more than 7-10 per
cent IN five years. And it was, its growing
record was lowered by removals from the
| state.
He is With the People.
Exchange.
The state master worKmen of the Knights
of Labor has this to say to the knights OF
the First congressional district: 'Every