The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-28

Workingmen should vote for prohi-
bition, because the drink evil is the
greatest enemy to all they should hold
dear. and prohibition is the most effec-
tive way of suppressing that evil.
Capital naturally seeks investment.
If the liquor business of this country
were destroyed, the vast sums of
money now invested in this corrupting
traffic would soon find investment in
other industries, such as manufacture
ing, mining. and developing the various
resources OF the country. Capital in
vested in any of these industries will
employ from two to five times as
many men as when it is invested in
the liquor business.
Hence, by voting for prohibition,
workingmen increase their chances for
! profitable employment. With prohibit
| ton, instead of men tramping across
the continent begging for the Cod
! given right to earn an honest living by
/ the sweat of the brow. they would find
! honest and remunerative employment
at home, where they could enjoy the So
ciety of their families.
With the industries and homes of the
| people properly shielded and protected
| by law from the blighting and devas-
tating saloon and its attendant evils,
the labor problem would soon solve it
self
lii one county. in the manufacturing
districts of Pennsylvania. there was
consumed in one year for intoxicating
drinks, $4,000, 600. OF this it is esti-
mated that 81 100000 was spent by
wage earners, those who could least
afford it. What is true in that instance
is true to greater or less extent of
the drink evil all over this land.
Charter seat in one of those COM
Portable palace cars, as the train leaves
the rough and boiSterous shores of the
Atlantic, and is propelled by the power
of steam to the farther west and milder
shores of the Pacific, and as Won 90
upon this long journey, take special
pains to view the farms Let your
| imagination run, and, if possible, drink
| in their wonderful extent and area
| When You have completed this Journey.
and recovered from its fatigues, take
one more flying trip. this time from the
gram flelds and dairy regions of the
nortn TO the cotton fields and orange
blossoms of the south and again test
your imagination to it's utmost limit.
IN order that you may gain some con-
ceptlon. OF the extent of the farms of
this vast domain: and thus prepare
your mind. if possible. to fully compre-
mend the following figures, which renre
| sent the estimated value of all these
! farms (lSS0)-$10 1877, 096, 776 Yet. vast
! as this sum is, if the child who has
commenced to live were to receive all
the money spent for liquor in this
country. it could, at the age of u
years, purchase all the farms of this
| great republic.
Hence, the workingmen should vote
for prohibition in order that the wage
earners may own the farms and homes
| of this country
In 1881 after seven years of pronibi-
ton in Kansas. the wholesale LIQUOR
dealers of St. Louis and Kansas Civ
took their travelling statesmen out of
the state for the reason that it was no
| longer profitable to conduct their busi-
ness therein Where is there a state
in which high license, low license, or
any other method of dealing with the
drink evil. can show such results?
In prohibition Kansas there are hun
dreds of, boys and young men who
have never seen a saloon or a drunk
| ard
Vote for prohibition because it less
ems the burden of taxation and in
creases the taxable wealth. The first
nine years of prohibition in Kansas
shows a decrease in the tax rate for
state purposes from 55 cents on the
| hundred dollars to 40 cents. and an
| increase in the assessed valuation of
property of over $500 200. OOO In Ne
braska. similarly situated. but under
! high license, the tax rate for the same
! nine years steadily increased at the
average rate per year of 2-3 cents on
I the hundred dollars and the increase
( in assessed valuation only $a2,000.000.
| In 1890 there were forty-four coun-
tiesNn the state of Kansas in which
there was not a pauper and thirty
seveA without a criminal in jail. Any
nersoh who will make the effort to in
| form himself will readily see that pro-