Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-08-22
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWERED.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWERED.
Pound OF Fact is Worth A Thousand Pounds of Guess.
What will be the effect in Morgan county if it votes out the
saoonsa
One way to answer this question is to find out how it has re-
suited in those counties and towns that have already voted out
the saloons. Let the witnesses give their testimony. Reports
from Tennessee by the officials and leading business men.
Hear their testimony as to whether 'axs are higher or bwe,.
() Union City: Taxes 40cs on the $4,000 less than with
the saloons more money in the treasury than for ten yearsI
(2) Waverly: No need to raise the taxes. 90 Lebanon: Tax
es lower than for years. () Morristown: Taxes increased, but
from bonds for schools, pixies, and other improvements. not
from closing saloons. (5) Camden: municipal expenses ef
in hay. (6) Ripley: no lack of revenue or increase Of taxes.
From the Globe Democrat: Since the six saloons were voted
out Of Mt. Carmel, H., the police force has been reduced from
six men to one. Salary of five policemen a, $50 per month,
for IL months $780,.
What has been the effect as to disorder and crime in these
same citiesr Answers: "a Drunkenness and crime greatly de-
creased. (2) Disorder and crime reduced to a minimum.
(3) Not one tenth as many arrests as before. () Moral phase
most gratifying, look back with horror to saloons. (5) Arrests
fallen off greatly. 90 Drunken man a curiosity; City Record
er and Sheriff almost out of business.
What has been the effect as 10 6usiness7
% Business better every way; collections better.
(2) Business not injured but steadily improving.
(3) Business better and every body prosperous.
G) More and safer business.
(5) Business increased a great deal.
(6) Business better in all lines.
The writer of the article from which these extracts have
been taken, says: ~ have yet to hear from a single dry town
in Tennessee where the people are not satisfied with the re-
suits"
Mayor Warehouse of Pasadena, California, says: "No
license has caused more men to make their home in Pasadena
than any other one thing" 1t will be So in Versailles and in
this county.
The saloons are going-,hirty-eight counties in Missouri have
driven them from their borders. There are only four cities in
Tennessee that permit them to sell. Georgia has joined the
prohibition states.
What about Vermont
Gov. Glenn of North Carolina said recently: 81 talked to
the governor of Vermont about the condition there, and here is
what he told me Two years ago, (note that-only two years.
because Of the abuse Of the law in some places the people of
Vermont threw off prohibition. As a result seven cities voted
to grant license to sell liquor. So DISASTROUS, in every way,
has been the effect on those cities that five of the seven have
voted out the saloon and it is only a question of a very short
time before the other two cities do the same"
a Note from Maiden, Mo: The chief of police says that
when they had saloons they made on an average of sixteen ar
rests for drunkenness per month. Under prohibition the num-
Der has dwindled to two a month.
Hear from other counties and towns in Missouri.
Wayne county: sin Feb. 1907 the court decided in favor of
the law. Since we adopted the law the revenue of the county
has increased between twenty and thirty thousand dollars and
besides we have built three new steel bridges across the St.
Francois river. VIM. A. SETTLE, Representative.
Stoddard county: Has had local option for three years.
Crime has been reduced at least one-half and the moral con-
diion is much better than ever before. Many men who used
to go home or stagger on the streets drunk at all times, both
day and night are now sober, well behaved citizens.
L. X. SPENCE, Representative.
Extracts from a letter written by j. l.. Fort, Judge Of the
22d judicial District: Since prohibition was established in this
circuit the criminal docket has gone down from an average OF
five hundred cases per year (including felonies and misdemean-
ors) to an average of seventy-fve cases per year. There is
6uf one man in any jail or prison house in this aren't to-day
and lei confined Er failing 10 pay a Fe assessed against him
for yioAatirg The b,ohi6iHon Law. During the open saloon
Deriod in This circuit W had a deficit in the treasury of every