The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-01-28
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Issue OF the West Vtrg1nlan which
were very misleading. especially to
persons who have not given both sides
OF the question a little study. but to
person who has given the least
thought to the question, the argument
in both articles would put you in mind
of those country school literary So
cieues where eight and ten year old
boys get up to debate.
Let us notice the first article:
Prohibition Profitable Business.
We shall just answer a few of the
statements as they naturally answer
themselves.
list. An immense sum of money Is
need each year to pay the salaries
of the men and women engaged in the
temperance movement. Did you ever
think what it cost to keep up the 9TH
er side Of the question? Did you ever
hear Of a person giving so much for
the temperance movement that his
wife and children have to beg for
bread?
Now, to be honest, haven't the peo-
pie as good right to spend their mon
ey towards helping the temperance
cause as they have to spend it for
whiskey?
Some day the people who are sup
porting the prohibition propaganda
will "get wise" They are getting
wise just now and the saloon people
know It and are afraid prohibition will
prohibit, and somebody else will be
looking for new Jobs, and a different
kind of job.
Below is some facts concerning the
profitableness Of the saloons:
The saloon business is an absolute
curse to the purses, souls, bodies and
minds of men anywhere.
Any saloon cursed city can be bet
ter patroled by half as many police
man without saloons and more money
saved in salaries alone than is made
from saloon license. Note the follow
ing items:
The city of Los Angeles receives
$3.50. 900 from saloon licenses, and pays
$251, 900 for police protection.
New York City receives 1891 500
from saloons, and pays $4,000 500 for
the support of the police.
Chicago receives s3.213,29S from sa-
looms, and pays s3,6S5,9s2 for the sup.
port of its police force.
Washington. D. C. receives $415..
9S5 from the saloons and pays $S14,-
245 for the support of police.
Cleveland receives $525,00O Dow tax
and pays $513,OOO towards providing
against evils resulting from the Dow
taxed saloons.
New Orleans receives $151. 500 from
the saloons. and pays S231.374 for the
support of the police.
Pittsburg receives $496,O0O from its
saloons. and pays $GS4,OOO towards
the maintenance Of its police.
st. Louis receives 81 ,O51.969 from
its saloons, and phys $1,602.1S2 for the
support of its police force.
Boston receives $1,43S,132 from Its
saloons, and pays $2.9o2,9OO for the
support of its police force.
Philadelphia $1742.175 from its sa-
looms, and pays Ss,O36,264 for the sup
mort of its police force.
Cincinnati receives $417,647 from its
saloons, and pays s6O3.210 towards the
Dow fund for providing against evils
resulting from the liquor traffic.
In 1905 San francisco had 300 sa-
looms paying the city only S270.O00, or
less than $50 each and 1t cost the city
twice that amount to control, prose-
cute, punish and care for whiskey
criminality. pauperism and other sa-
loon products.
Immediately after the earthquake.
prohibition law In the hands of Cen
eral Funston, Prohibitionist from
-Kansas, at head of U. S. Army, was
enforced to the very letter, at the
point Of the bayonet, for I months in
city of over 100000. thus proving
that a Prohibitory law in the hands
of the right kind of officials, can be
made effective.
Whiskey barrels and beer kegs were
broken open, their poison emptied into
the gutter, and men rightly shot like
logs who dan ell violate the law.
When the city needed medicine It de.
stroyed its whiskey. When it need
ed money 1t closed its saloons, and
when it was once more on the high
way OF progress It sold its honor for
blood money and opened its saloons to
debauch and damn its people. The
first Monday morning after the reopen
ing Of the saloon in San Francisco
(July ., 1906. there were "a victims
before the police courts as against
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