The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
LIQUOR FIGURES.
If SO.CAuLED PROHIBITION
REALLY PkOHISITS.
The Statistics Gathered by the Census
Officials Does Ect Show

It.
Bulletin IS is just out OF the ce1su
bureau. It contains statistics Of eitie
with from 5000 to 25. 900 inhsbi
tants. Bulletin IS Is q continustic
OF bulletin 20, published little Will
ago and containing statistics OF cisle
OF over 25, 900 inhabitants. Anoni
other things these bulletins show u
number Of licensed saloons and to-
number OF arrests for various cause
in the year 1908.
An ofdcisl OF the census bureau
! who has q special prediction for ex
amining ard comparing ststistica
figures for all sorts Of purposes, Ia!
msde careful computations and com.
parisons, to find out how, judging
from the number Of arrests, the larg-
er OF smaller number OF saloons afeci
drunkenness. He has discovered thf
startling fact that q reduction OF tbs
number OF saloons has not, as is gene1'
ally supposed, the fsct Of decreasing
but rather that Of increasing, drunk
eness.
10 bis computations he takes the
arrests for drunkenness and disturb
scce Of the peace together. f)r In
police stations drunksrds ara fIa
Quently slated for disturbance of Tee
pesce and not for drunkenness and
5isturbers Of the peace sre as a ruls
drunk.
He says the number OF srrests Is
not an absolutely safe guide in 81?
cases for the general state OF sober
ness or inebriety, for In one city the
police may be careless or lenient n
such casss, while In another it may be
more wstchful snd strict.
It may be also considered, be says,
that the number OF saloons is not the
only influencing factor. It makes q
difference whether place Is an inland
town, or seaport, o. river town, or
situated on lake; whether it is q
commercial or an industrial town;
whether 1t has much Of . foreign pop
ulation OF not, and ii it has, which ii
is, or which is predominating.
These differences, be says, probably
account for the deviaSions from tho
rule, which other wise show, however,
that the larger the number Of hcsn'
sed saloons the smaller the number OF
arrests for drunkenness and disturb
snce Of the pescs, and tbs smaller tbs
number OF the former, the larger the
number OF the latter.
So, for instance, Of the 21 cities OF
5000 inhabitants, R3ckland, Maine,
neads the list without any saloons.
but shows 385 arrests, AND Water
town, Wis, closes the list with 5S
saloons, but only 81 arrests.
OF the Is cities with rs, 0c0 inhahl-
tsnts, Quincy, Mass, heads the is5
with no salocas, but 53l arrests, aud
Hamilton, o., with l55 saloons, bu.
only about the same number CT az
rests (59S) closes IL; Hobokec, n. j.,
has only 255 arrests. although ]Ss So.
looms.
OF the l2 cities Of between $4,000
an6 10000 inhabitants, Portland:
Maine, heads the list with no Ecsn-
sed saloons and 2.18s arrests, ssnd
Eizsbeth, n. j., closes it wisn 237
saloons, but only / l27 arrests; Yoak,
ers, N. Y, with 1S7 saloons, had only
6ee arrests. hut Charleston, S. c..
with its state dispsnsary had l.6cS.
and Harrisburg. Pa, with saloons,
had /, 1856 arrests.
The list Of the ten cities with sbou5
100000 inhabitants opens with Fall
River, Mass, without saloons, but g..
66s srrests from drunkenness and dis
sucbance Of the peace; next cones
Lowell, Mass, with 81 saloons ana g.
6S4 arrests; it closes with Memphis,
Tenn, hsvin9 504 saloons, but only
] 1867 arrests.
At the head Of the list Of the fVs
cities with about 200, 900 inhshitsnts
stands Minneapolis, with only 381 ss
Icons and 2,S76 srEests, ano at It's fooe
stands Jerssy City with 1,O3l. saloons
and 3,462 arrests.
Figuring out sons percentages, be
found that in all the cities, WITH 8
population from 5000 to $4,000, con-
tained in Bulletin IS, taken together
in the three prohibition states. lows,
Kansas and Maine, the number OF ar.
rests for the two causes mentioned
was for esch one thousand inhabi
tsnt 80. 60; 22.25; 2571 respectively,
while the figures fer Illinois, Indiana
and New jersey. three license states,
were respectfully 1888, 1880 and l3.-
81.
Asked for the ressons that prcauc.
ed these astonishing effects. quite col-
trary to popular opinion, the oficisl
ssid that he has not particularly IN
vestigated them, but he thought tkas
there is probably more home tipping
where there is want Of convenient
drinking places. and thst blind tigers,
druggists ard hoot-;eGgsrs in prohibit
tion localities fad 1t less dGnge1c u
and more profitable to sell whisky
than beer OF vine.
a EOoGo Curve.
The Colunb!s s cord says the
more supsrs:itious local railroad ner
sre beginning to think there's q hco
doc about McMaster's fill: the shsrI
little reverse curve two miles north
Of Winnsboro, where the disastrou!
wreck OF Sunday occurred. The Ger
rick repairing the damage turned tur
tie and hurt two men Tuesday, ane
Wednesday 1t turned over again
This time it blocked the track ant
delayed trains for several hours. Witt
tie death last night CT R3lT3 Gates