The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-06-10

pdlu lOl tuo ruppott Va eho PcoA
with but 1885 population-sl5,-
I415,07 was decreased TO s.,
(little more than one halDwith the
population more than double.
Hon. II. H. Faxon, q life-longI
resident OF the town, testified that
l"Quincy, under prohibition, has
prospered as Quincy under rum rule
never did" and with the natural
explanation that "every dollar ex-
pended for liquors. as a beverage,
comes out OF the landlord, grocer,
baker, tailor, butcher, and Others
who pursue an honest calling"
In these "others" you must count
the professional man.
81 have rented houses for more
than thirty years." added Mr.. Fax
lin, land can safely say that three
fourths OF all my losses in rents dur /
ling that period have been due, dir
ectly or indirectly, to the use OF in
toxicating liquors."
1t can be safely said that three
Ifourths OF all the losses encountered
by every professional man, in the
practice of his profession, are due to
the same cause. Remove the cause
aud his practice will be greater, the
met proceeds Of it will be greater
lstill.
Populationin prisons, poor. houses
and isils csaaot help the profession
al man to prosperity. From the
year 1881 to 1899, prohibition Kan
sas decreased her prison population
five per cent, while High Licenses
Nebraska increased hers 167 pei
cent; and in one year OF that period
Nebraska drank 165, 600 barrels oil
liquor while Kansas drank but o,
1000.
1t is sober men, outside the jaili
, and prisons and poor-houses, tha
! create the wealth OF State in which
the professional man seeks to share
The increase Of taxable property
> in Kansas for q period Cf ten year
under Prohibition was 5000, ,25O, 900
and in Nebraska only s92 ,0OO, 600
: a difference to Prohibitions credi
lof sl1 900, 900 year: and the ta'
rate Of Kansas in 1889, was but Tor
eIty cents on a thousand dollars, Will
lin High License Nebraska it was D
:, cents.
q OF the los counties in Kansas, 2
a do not maintain any poor-houss
and OF the 80 poor-hauses maintaine
!, by the other counties eight wer
without tenants in 1889, while 2
2 others had an average Of less ths
Y lone pauper per month during tn
: whole of that year. In other words
Clone third Of that Prohibition Stat
,e.lis absolutely without pauperism
IL another third has barely enougl
, poor people to justify poor-farms
y and in only nine counties OF tn
other one third are there more tha
'.forty paupers annually. Those min
~ 'counties are where Prohibition
= fiagrantly de6ed. !.
. Cambridge, Mass, increased i
~ populationi in the ten years trom lo'
Q to 1886, under License at the rate
iii 1872 per annum, and the next te
VI wears, under No License, Its increai
was2, 1913 per snnum-almost double
u In ten years Of License, Cambride
q showed gain in savings bank depo
% its Of but 2,S77.20; and in Il
pc ten years Of no License directly su
ss ceeding, the gain Of such deposi
was 1858, 1928. .13, with 12,O65 ne
&c depositors. In 1896, q year OF
y. nancial depression, without saloon
81 the one savings bank there which
Oh patronized almost exclusively |
hel waee-earners increased is deposl
d. by s229 $50 .33, while the emit
increase Of deposits in the san
ve bank. during the ten fairly good 8
,sso,lloon y, wears from 1875 to 1886 WI
- but $3.50, ,69S.S7.
'gs In Toronto, Canada, for year
In thew have closed the saloons rigo
Iusly at seven o'clock every Satu
'en 70 day night, and kept open the ss
10 ines bank. Open savings banks a
!es YES the logical result Of closed saloon
IN /, cave these latter open, Saturd'
night to prey upon the working ella
IN ses and absorb their weeks wage
20 200 and savings banks may as well
II main shut. -,
raj Where savings banks depos
ION , grow, the professional man thrive V
ioc- Where saloons thrive most, he W
un, . work hard for small returns, his
OF counts will show a discouraging
rest Of bills unpaid and bis business ', y
GEN. not weld him the reward i Shout
even il always he keep sober hi
'o 80 self. III -
uls- ln hsps. is the fact that saloons are !
%, nops,ant temptation to the prof
,SSl s;onaI man, Turing often to negl
{ de- ! Of his profession, and renderins ,, 7
1856 :, Unf;t M 10 follow it successfully; !
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