The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-24

laulOh VI OHi1 if''c1Of y w iCl tnnuu-
featured products were worth $22.-
III ,6SS, or nearly rs much as Maine
with three times the population. In
1880 Rhode Island had population
of PIC, 53l, not equal yet to Maine
in 1850, onl y about half as many,
yet her products were worth $104,-
1853, 62l. Note, Omen, the fine and
rapidly advancing prosperity of the
above free States, and then look at
poor struggling Maine with that
incubus prohibition buckled to her
throat; then strip the mask from
your eyes, and read and digest the
following. You will then or ought
to see, that the N. Y. Voice or other
unreliable source from which you get
your inspiration, ''didn't give you
the truth to quote from?":
"The cost of city government in
Atlanta, Ca, increased 10 per cent.
during the first year of prohibition.
Taxes in Topeka, Kan, were
81, 2S on the 500 in 1887, and the
city had nc money for current ex-
penses.
"Taxes in Des Moines, Iowa, were
$500 on the 500 in 1887, being
four and one-half times as heavy as
in anti-prohibition Kansas City, Mis-
souri,.
During the short reign Of prohi-
bition Atlanta, Ga, was forced to
sell $50, 900 of gas stock, worth more
than par, to meet current expenses,
for which the revenue was more than
sufficient before prohibits N. Taxes
in Atlanta increased 40 per cent.
during the single year the prohibit
ing law was in force.
Taxes in Atchison, Kan, were
S.. 90 on the 500 in 1887, and on
the 18th of June the expenses of the
city had exceeded her revenue, and
the council ordered the dismissal of
the lire and police departments, and
that the gas and water supply of the
city be turned Off
1t Is a PLAIN, common sense pro-
position that if you take away from
State or community large proper
ton OF its revenue that that revenue
must be made up by increased taxes
on the remaining revenue paying
property. If, by the prohibitory
law, the revenue derived from the
liquor traffic is curtailed, the other
property owners must increase their
taxes to make up the deficiency.
Seventeen hundred buildings were
unoccupied in the city of Des Moines,
Iowa, in June, 1887. The popula-
ton of the city is only $4,000.
Rents, in Atlanta, Ga, declined, I'M
der prohibition, Is to 60 percent.
Two hundred stores and 900 resi-
dences stood empty. Such is prohi-
bition prosperity. Under license this
has changed.
"Store houses in Des Moines are
now offered for rent at one-half the
rentals obtained for them before pro-
hibition. Sixty four large brick store
houses in the center of the city are
unoccupied. The loss to Iowa fro Il
prohibition is estimated at $40, 000,.
600 per year. Mr.. II. King, the
President of Des Moines City Coun.
Gil, elected as an ardent Prohibi.
zionist, declares the law unsuccessful
and harmful to the property of the
city, in an open letter. Prohibition
drives valuable citizens and vast
capital from a community. Two
bank presidents are authority for the
statement that $4,000, 900 in casl
was taken from Atlanta, Ga, in the
first three months after prohibition
went into effect.
"The number of failures in Maine
under prohibition, in 1886, was III,
or about two for every 10, 900 OF
population. The number in anti
prohibition Connecticut was 8S, Of
about one and one-third for ever,
10000 of population. Prohibition i!
| VIC tdblitl VI tiouSICl
Bradslreet's Report shows that thu
number of failures in Iowa increased
from $3.50, in 1888, to 373, in 1886
and that the number increased il
Kansas from l. to 22S, in 1855. Ii
the adjoining anti-prolbiton State
of Missouri, Minnesota and Nebras
ka, there was decrease in til,
number of failures: the number il
Missouri being 375, in 1888, ant
only 292 in 1886. In Minnesota tn
number of failures decreased frou
21O, in 1885, to 1871, in 1886; and il
Nebraska from PAT, in 1885, to III
in 1886 The number of failures, pc
10 600 population, in the prohibition
State Of Iowa, was nearly doubt
that IN Missouri, while In the prohi
bition State of Kansas it was so per
cent greater than in the anti-prohihi
ton State of Missouri. . Tn
American Printing Co., Louisville
Kentucky. MEMO.
UNNECESSARY SUFFERING.