The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-08-31

{ Statutory euecG oil closing the saloons
the mayor and police commissioner
have withdrawn all saloon licenses ant
ordered the saloons to remain closed in
definitely. When these saloons are per
United to reopen, they should be force,
to pay license tax of at least one thou
sand dollars year-two hundred AM
/ fifty dollars quarter That will max
/ whlskey AID beer bear part of the bur
| dens they impose on the city govern
ment-not their proportion, but some
thing more reasonable than the presen
| paltry contribution
4 | call the attention at our taxpayer
| to the statement of the Examiner IA pa
/ per not favorable to prohibition) that
one thousand dollar city tax on each sa
/ loon will not pay the burden it impose
on the city.
| quote from political papers two sug
gestive items us follows:
The money spent in the saloons of st
Louis, Mo, last year would build 100
homes costing $1,000 each, put S50l
worth Of furniture in every home, tel
tons of coal in every cellar, $50 worth o
groceries in every pantry, give eacl
family bank account of s., 200, ant
there would be $500. 600 unspent. Ed
torial in St Louis Globe Democrat.
Look at this Three beers day for
year would bring into your home on,
barrel Of flour fifty pounds of sugar
twelve pounds of eornstarch, ten pounds
of maccarOni, ten quarts of beans, fou1
/ twelve pound hams one bushel of swee
potatoes, ten pounds of coffee, ter
pounds OF raisins, ten pounds of rice
/ twenty pounds of crackers, 100 bars o
soap three twelve-pound turkeys, five
quarts of cranberries, ten lunches oil
celery, ten pounds of prunes, four dozer
of oranges and twenty five good bee
steaks. Chicago Tribune.
DOES IT PAY?
Does it pay to license Il traffic which
lessons the demand for the helpful
things of life, which increases then
cost and diminishes the ability to pay
for them?
Does it pay to license a traffic which
makes men less skillful, less steady, les,
reliable, which lessons credit, lessen:
the demand for food, clothing, shelter
and tools with which to work?
Does it pay to license a traffic which
breeds idiots, paupers, criminals. luna
ties and epilep6ics and casts them upor
society to be supported by industrious
people?
Does it pay to license a traffic which
increases taxes by creating demand
for jails, penitentiaries. asylums, hos
pitals almshouses, orphanages, reform
atories, police and criminal courts?
Does it pay to license thing which
decreases a mans industrial efficiency
IL.
that - per cent of agrieulturists dis
eliminate against him for using it anC
that 70 per cent of manufacturers, s.
per cent of tradesmen and 80 per cent
of railroad officials do the same thing2
Does it pay to support the families OF
saloon keepers and bartenders and pay
their rents. taxes, insurance and buy
luxuries for them in order to get few
pennies of our many dollars back III
revenue and license?
Does it pay to build palace for the
brewer, hire servants and buy silks for
his wife and dress your own wife in
rags. make her take in washing to sup
port the family and finally send her to
the poor house and bury her in the
potter tield2
Does it pay~to lexy tax to support
orphans and widows and license the
murder of husbands and fathers? Does
it pay to license a thing which is always
and everywhere known to be the enemy
of everything which is sacred to God
and mann
Does it pay to listen to the sophiesies
and falsehoods of passion, prejudice,
ignorance, appetite and greed and close
our ears to the voice of conscience, reason
judgment, suffering, religion and God
Why not vote against license and
thereby rid our State of the accursed
traffic? 1t is argued that the sale car
not be stonned. | reply that it wa.