The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-02

an afternoon game.
 According to the coal dealers, many peo- ple bought coal and stored 1t away last winter who had never been known to do so before Others, who had been accus- toned to buying two or three tons on time this last winter bought seven or eight and paid cash for it."
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 Going back to the address of yester- day to the voters, Dr. Duncan said: "W1hy, if they could sell Just as much liquor under prohibition, should such lit- erature as that, gotten out by the Liquor Dealers association. be printed, why should they brother? And yet they held a meeting the other day and raised a slush fund to oppose prohibition"
 He took statistics from the reports of the revenue officer of Maine to the effect that 704 revenue licenses are issued In that state, including druggists and for medicinal purposes, but only 2o4 to retail dealers or an average of one to each town, a remarkably low average He said
  union which has more savings deposits than 1t has voters in the state.
 Taking Kansas City Kan, as an exam pie of a town, the fifth in the list of inl- portant manufacturing cities, which 1t was claimed has five foreigners to every one in Jefferson county, Dr. Duncan read the following report of w. c. Tricl1et, essis- tant attorney general. on the results of prohibition in that city:
 Kansas City Example.
 "This city Is the metropolis of Kansas, with a population of about 100000. The inhabitants are largely wage-earners and represent every nationality. We are io- eated on the border, only an invisible line separating us from Kansas City Mo. The city ranks fifth in the list of manufacturing cities of the United States.
 "One year ago there were 256 saloons in this county, 200 gambling dens and about 60 houses of social evil. Today there Is not a saloon, no open gambling den, nor @ disorderly house. It is the largest city in the world without these dens of vice, and as we have now existed about twelve months without them, 1t affords a living example of the fact that a large city can grow and prosper without such evils.
 "At the commencement of the contest a large number of our people thought it would ruin business and destroy our pros perity, but it has stimulated business in all lines.
 "Our population has increased at a greater rate than ever before.
 "The deposits of the banks have gained
 "rhe merchants upon our streets have had to employ additional clerks.
 "The attendance In our public schools has increased largely. and we have had to employ eighteen additional teachers. The teachers inform us that this in crease Is largely of boys and girls of from 2 to 16 years of age, who prior to the closing of the saloons were com pelled tosasslst in supporting the fam fly. by reason of the father spending his wages for drink.
 "The charitable institutions report a reduction of more than two-thirds in the demand for aid. The juvenile court which has the care of dependent child ren, had but two applications in the past eight months while prior to tn e closing of the joints from eight to eighty-eigh children required aid and assistance each month.
 Prior to the closing of the joints we sent from fifteen to twenty-five young men to the reformatory every year. Tn the twelve months since closing we have sent but two.
 The expenses for prosecuting criml- nals have been reduced $25 GOO per an mum. Expense for the police force has been reduced as much more.
 For the first time in twenty-five years the court of common pleas of this county opened it's term the first Mon day in May without criminal case
 The city courts, created for the ex- press purpose of trying petty suits for the collection of rents and grocery bills, and formerly crowded with q black docket every day. have now practically no business for the reason that people are paying their bills instead of being sued for them.
 "A year ago this city was trying to devise ways and means to spare the money to build additions to our city jails. Today the doors of the jails swing idly upon their hinges. and we have no use for those we have.
 
 'One year ago, not to exceed two busi- ness men on the principal thoroughfares of this city would have favored the clos ing of saloons. Today there are not two who would favor opening them.
 Twice since the saloons were closed we have held a city election at which tho issue was presented to the people and at each election the people have indorsed present conditions. Every banker is loud in praise of the present civic situation. The city Is clean, crime is at minimum, merchants prosperous. real estate ad- vancing.
 This city is now the experimental sta tion of the world. In Kansas City, Kan, can close it's saloons and keep them closed, and if the closing produces pros perity happiness and contentment. then 1t is reasonable to assume that such re- suits will follow like policy in other large cities"
 In closing, pr. Duncan called attention to the statement that you should follow the conservative men of this city. I don't know how many men signed this appeal but I do know that two out of the only three mentioned have not been in Ala bama long enough to be citizens of our state. They talk of Mir. Lawrence of Okfo apd vr1f0ht nrNak a( fhovn of