Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-11
DISCUSSES PROHIBITION
AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

referring to the manner in which this |
law is enforced a writer says: 'All |
you have to do is to Join club, adj |
mission card l cent, with full instruc-
tons on the back"
On the wave now temporarily sweep
ing over the country demagogues will
seek to ride into power. One member
of congress has already announced he
will join the prohibition party to Sc
cure his reelection. Another member
of congress announced that unless
| congressional sessions cease making
| extravagant appropriations the treas
ury will be short millions of dollars at
| the end of the fiscal year. If the tenn
porary wave of prohibition strikes
every portion of the country it will
greatly add to the financial distress
now upon us and reduce the revenue
millions of dollars. Prohibition does
not prohibit and never will. What is
most needed is the raising of the
standard of the men who run these
saloons and wipe out the low brothels.
| The writer was in Georgia some
years ago when he was appraised that
the leading citizen was a saloon pro-
prietor. and now under the new law
the Georgia people announce that it
is intended to regulate the traffic
among the negroes in the fhope of re
ducing crime. But the white folks
can get all they want by joining a
club and buying an admission card
for l cent. .ssT
The following appeared in a recent
magazine article and is well worth
the careful consideration of our citi.
zens at this time:
Some interesting facts for manu-
facturers, dealers, insurance agents.
transportation companies. farmers. and
wage earners:
THE brewers, masters and distil-
lers of the United States consume in
their products every year:
; S6,361,975 bushels of corn. S 27.2742OS
62,76O,000 bushels of barley. 62.76O,0O0
$685., 900 bushels of rye. - 3916SSs
!Sugar products hops and as
| sorted grains -. ....... 1635S 000
Labor producers only) 80. 54.542,O00
coal and other fuel 5000, 900
Lumber, rubber goods. steam
engines, machinery, tools.
steam fittings. plumbers
5 supplies, wagons, harness.
es, builders supplies. glass.
filtering material, chemi-
2 cal supplies. paint and var
nish, furniture, brushes.
packing house products,
= advertising signs, print
ing ..... -. .......... $50. ,OOC
Fire insurance premiums. 15,00O,0 zoe
4 Railroad, freights and eX-
, press -. -. -. 10000. 900
i Making a total paid in to the
II producing sources of the
United States of S35 4, S51 ,09'
; These industries pay annually state
: and government license amounting tt
i $6S, S75, 465.00.
:, In addition they pay city license
u zeal estate and personal property
u taxes aggregating the enormous tota
: lof $70G00,000.0O.
"The continued growth of prohibi
ton and the destruction of the brew
ing and distilling industries will re
{ suit in the allied trades in all line.
:, of manufacture being made to suffe
- great losses through the destroyin.
:. market for their product.
= THE unemployed of, all the larg,
cities of the United States just at tn,
present time number many thousand
VINO are clamoring for food and shel
. ter. The prohibition movement. if al
= lowed to expand, will certainly aggra
= vate these conditions by adding man
- thousands to the number of unem
- ployed and overlooking the taxpaye
by compelling him to shoulder ez
penses now borne by the industrie
\ that certain fanatics are attemptin
TO put out OF. business. 1t will put i
Jeopardy the livelihood of upwards q
fouA million people and precipitat
the greatest financial crisis this cour
4 try has ever known
AUTHORIZATION