Evening journal., 1907-11-02

Kent County,. D,Jov.Vu o"oiVVVVV
Sussex County. 3,S25O0 3S2,5OOOO
Totals ........$76,31OOO 1851, 10000
Deduct total license paid o.. 76,S10O0
Yearly net loss by the peo-
pie ................ .$l,554.69O.OO
= This LIQUOR tract says the traffic in
Delaware pays out annually S5,217,SSS-
30. OF course il first collects that
entire amount from the people. If as
. much mere sticks TO its fingers as pro-
fits, IL must collect from the people
levery year more than ten million dol
lars
But let us assume that it makes no
4, profit, that It PAYS out all il receives.
Is II good business or sensible for Della
ware 10 pay out more than FIVE million
dollars in order TO get back seventy
: six thousand dollars as license fees2
? And in addition to this, to pay out
, more than double the total Of the Ii
{ lcense fees in caring for the evil fruits
OF the licensed traffic? Is it wise to
lpay FIVE million dollars a year for an
4 ocean of poisonous liquor, and then
: strain II all through the people to
catch a mere pittance as license
money?
Five Million More For Necessaries.
This vast sum was earned by the
toll of the people. If not used for
drink. they would have five million
I, dollars more to spend for clothing
shoes, farm products. meat, furniture,
= dry goods, lumber, hardware and other
4 necessaries and luxuries-and to put
into bank "for a rainy day" 1t would
cause a boom in every other trade
n Instead Of ten livers and one porter
n house steak, the meat-shop would then
10 sell one liver (for the saloon-keeper)
G and ten porterhouse steaks (for the
9 lpeople).
l. The claim that all the people will
n rush out of Delaware to spend five
million dollars for drink, is simply
ridiculousl
- Labor's Share Of Liquor Profits.
IS Labor will be greatly benefited by
.e lNO-LICENSE. More homes will be
N built. largely increasing the demand
o for worlSmen. New activities, enabled
y by this vast saving, will create five
NJ Jobs for every one job lost by CLOSING
h the saloons.
a. A billion dollars, more than the ma
tional debt) is each year spent foI
- drink in the United States. Is It mol
= worse than wasted? Every dollar Of
~ il must first be earned by the people
a. And If spent for drink. it cannot buy
= other things.
Sc Compare. from the United States
We census. the share going TO labor az
wages, with what labor would get i
er the money went for necessaries. Mucl
u.s. paid for materials also goes to the labo
We that produced them
to OF each $4,000 spent for shoes, ther
en- is paid out for wages S22.56 and 70
sc materials S40.37.
ed Brick and tile, wages s3S.61, mater
ne falls S1494.
ed Carriages and wagons. wages s2S.Oi
az materials S34.s4.
clothing wages ss21O. material
or $3.50.
Cotton goods. wages s1945, material
s4s.S6
to Furniture and upholstering. wage
by $500 materials $32.7O.
gs Paper, wages $3.50, material
pa S4546
to Publishing, wages s2s.e1 material
e,d S1S.74
Did Ship building, wages sS1.7s, mater
ier falls SSS.56
I'm BEER AND LIQUOR, wages $3s
ms materials S963l
OF The total average for all industriC
ne paid for wages and materials, out {
pa each $4,000 paid by consumers,
pN S61S3. leaving a balance for profit
Ter expenses, etc. OF $3S17
IKE The total paid for wages and ma
me terials, out of each $4,000 spent fC
es- beer and liquor. is S13.43. leaving fC
as- profits etc. the sum of SS6.57.
wo Labor would thus get five times q
on much out of it, If the billion dollar
ism went for necessaries instead of fS
ace drink The farmers would get MOI
than three times greater proportion,
rs his grain were made into bread instea
nN, of beer. Every time a man spends
NAT nickel for bread instead of beer. was
me earners and farmers get 81 per cen
IL more of It. This would yield to II
.ns workmen and formers the huge exit
ns' sum of more than five hundred mi
lion dollars every year in the Unite
INC States-and in Delaware three mi
ON lion extra annually. And this exit
oly money would go through the hands
iho merchants and farmers, i'm the purcha
Of necessaries It would employ 1850
ON 600 more men in the country and nea
'eh lly 10000 more in Delaware.
30 1t takes the burden of sum ecu
pay to the whole wages of one-fourth q
tuu .u entire voting population of our sta
'uiS IN, to support the licensed liquor ira
"iiI fic, If, as this liquor dealers tract ]
Inmates, they collect over IlNe mlll
ana dollars for drink from the people
20 Delaware each year
ne A Word to Organized Labor.
les' The papers have reported that CO
-.S tain gentlemen, who are or have be
'ne prominent in Organized Labor ha
appealed TO its members as such 10
iin' feat NO-IICENSE.
ep- Just a word to my friends amo
icy the Labor people, whose acquaintar
'esI have enjoyed and priced. If tho
.lle' reports be true 7 believe they ha
leye been drawn into making a serious m
opie take. Kent and Sussex counties CO
troll the General Assembly. Tho
.s,- counties are strongly AGAINST ]
tnlS CENSE, because they say they deel
9's need Il. And it would be particula
unfortunate il Organized Labor shol
do anything now which may be pre-.
,nse dicial when that body goes 10 Dover
hSn Legislation which hereafter 1t may ne
"a, The splendid labor organization shoi
~ m not be used 10 support the corr'
81 corporatinn--saloon conspiracy-i.al
II owes the saloon nothing.
,ts Effect on Real Estate.
ltial This liquor tract says real est
anic will be injured,
Instead, It viii be benefited. salS
ii inter- Lodseheh -rsHtelt AyeDe
n which Mckinley ConclaVe, fIeptasoph