The Green Forest tribune., 1900-08-30

l into trouble, causing you to pay out money, and yet his saloon
 does not increase the price of your produce one penny. Is this
 right We say it is not. If the saloon is such. help to the town, then let every farmer demand that the advantage be extended to him, or let him in justice to him. self and family refuse to vote for the saloon.
 But it is claimed the revenue from the licensed saloon is a great help, and that it makes our taxes less. 1 have no doubt that every voter almost has been told that if he voted the saloon out his taxes would be increased. Let me say to every voter in Carroll county that is not one iota of truth in the claims that the saloon makes the rate of taxation less.
 Now, let us get down to facts in the case. The whiskey man says the saloon makes the rate of tax ation less. l say it does not. Let the taxpayer decide the matter. Get out the tax receipts for the time we had no licensed saloons. The last two years we have had saloons. According to the whis- ky mems argument the rate of taxation ought to be much less during the last two years. Is it found to be so :? When the tax payer looks at his receipt he will find the rate of taxation was five cents higher than ever before! If the revenue from the saloon is such help, why this increase in taxes Consider this: In 1886 under saloon license, the city of Eureka Springs had a deficit of S3, ,23O.73 in the police department alone. In 1887, without license there was a deficit of only S356.58. Hence we see that when the city received the revenue of the i- censed saloon her taxes were more by S5, ,874.15. Furthermore during seven months (from April to November) in 1887, without the licensed saloon, the city had net gain of S9,852.49. Ac- cording to that rate of net gain, had the city kept the saloon out she would have been S216, 755.76 better off today. This is but one illustration of how the saloon helps to pay taxes.
 Irepeat with emphasis that the busin ess man who votes for h- cense cripples his own trade, and the taxpayer who votes for H. cense increases his taxes. There is absolutely no good to be de- rived from the licensed saloon. No, no, fellow citizens, there IS no truth in the assertion about the saloon making our taxes less. 1 am one of the taxpayers of this city and county. 1 want the truth to be known. The tax books will show that what 1 have said is true. Every taxpayer who has his tax receipts has in his hands the legal proof that l am telling the truth, and no whls- ky man in the state can deny 1t. Therefore I appeal to every tax payer to vote against the licensed saloon. It is financially to your advantage to do so. Of course, the saloons pay a large amount of money in the county treasury, but what goes with it? It does not help the farmer any, since his taxes grow no less. I will tell you where it goes: Itis consumed ln paying the expenses of our courts while they investigate the crimes growing out of the saloon. The crime resulting from the saloon costs the county much more than the revenue paid by the saloon amounts to. I challenge any one to produce one instance in which licensed saloons has decreased ln the least the rate of taxation. l challenge any one to prove by facts or figures that the saloon is in any way a financial benefit to town. There is absolutely no good to be derived from the sa- loon. It helps no one, save the man who runs it. It enriches his coffers.
 Those who vote for the saloon,