The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-03-15
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF iNTEMPERANce.

Interesting Figures in Answer to the
Ouestiop, "Does 1t Pay to Danish the
Saloon From Community ?''-Pros-
periiy of Towns That Are Dry.
The Fishkill IN. " Weekly Times
has correspondent In California who
has been investigating from n business
standpoint the liquor problem as af-
fecting the cities and towns of that
State. In his letter to the Times this
correspondent (Mr. l.. G. Wood gives
some interesting figures in answer to
the question, Does 1t pay to Danish the
saloon from a community After
naming large number of the cities
and towns in Southern California that
voted dry" and thus banished the
saloon, he says that ali these show a
prosperous growth and some of them
phenomenally 50. He then instances
some, Long Beach, for example" ]
spent three months at this place the
past summer, and have seen 25,000 peo-
pie drop down there in one day on
pleasure bent brought IN and carried
out by the steamer and electric roads.
ell without accidents. with no drunks
and no arrests. Long Beach was Il
saloon town few years ago, and when
the problem of no saloons, all the
saloon sympathZers in Southern Cali
forna predicted that it would kill the
place. During the last few years it
has spent $4,000 for sidewalks, as
much more in extending its sewer sys.
TEN, put up G20 new buildings, spent
100000 i'm new school houses and in
the enlargement of others, built a new
al, Of 90 I'm
proved its streets all over the city at
large expense. also its park. Be
sides, the Pacific Electric Railway
Company has spent in new lines and
buildings in the city limits $780, 900,
which shows confidence of money
men in town that a few years ago
was going to die. Pasadena, another
dry and dead city, has spent during
the past year about $1,000,000 in new
buildings, and has now population
of 25,000 to 10000 and an assessed
valuation of over S1500O,000. Ocean
Park has added 2000 to its population
in two years. Whittier has added 1000
to its population in two years, and
spent for new buildings in the past
year 100000. Monrovla has increased
its population by 500 the past year.
in eighteen months. Santa Anna voted
the saloon out two years ago, and is
now growing faster than ever before;
it is the county seat of Orange County.
Wilmington has doubled its population
in twelve months; it voted dry the last
election.
In the wet cities and towns, Los An
geles and San Pedro are the only ones
flaot s.. Itrt Ia
Government is spending vast amount
of money improving the harbor at San
Pedro, which gives it boom. Cheno
was q dry town, but voted wet some
six years ago: it has had three murders
since, two of which We're in saloons,
and it has cost this county thousands
of dollars TO prosecute the cases. Los
Angeles has 200 saloons and 145
churches. 1t will have spent in new
buildings by January /, 1905, for one
year, about $l4,000,000. Its population
is about 100000. Its per capita growtl
will not equal Pasadena or Long Beach
but ii is making wonderful strides. 1t.
criminal costs are very large. In al
address, short time since by a Grim
inal attorney (Mr. Rogers, before thC
Mems League, he stated that seventy
five per cent. of the crime in the city
was caused by the misuse of liquor
If the saloons were wiped out, seventy
five per cent. of costs would not bt
here; he further stated that of forty
murder cases he had been engaged in
in the past four years, all but fom
were caused by liquor. zone murder,
said Mr.. Rogers, was over keg OF
beer, worth S1.25, and it cost Los An
case" There is a tremendous stronl
sentiment against the saloon in Lo
Angeles city, and the wise ones pre-
| dict it will be dry city in five years.
Reader does it pay?