The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-02
SHOWN THAT 81 PER CENT OF IN.
MATES ARE CONFINED FOR IN
ToxcATIoN COSTING COUNTY
THOUSANDS.
SALOON PROPERTY VALUE.
The Records Show That Total for
81 Saloons Is But Three Dollars
More Than One Dry Goods Store in
Richmond.
BY Harper.


Vote for Watson and the county To-
cal option law will be sustained. That
means Wayne county will go dry. IL
the county goes dry the revenue from
the saloon licenses will be lost. To
raise this revenue there will be an In
crease of taxes. An increase of taxes
means an increase in the rent you
pay.
This line of argument was advanced
upon the streets today by the oppon-
ents of Watson. Accepting the state
ments as true. figuring that the la
boring man paying rent occupies
property valued at 81 ,O00 the increase
of rent would be in even numbers only
s cents per month. This condition
accepts the loss of the revenue from
licenses as absolute and does not take
into consideration. the saving TO the
county and CITY on the amount spent
for charity. which overbalances that
received from the licenses.
Charities and corrections boards
have estimated by careful figuring
and reports that 60 per cent of the
poverty Is traceable direct 10 the sa-
loon. An inspection of the poor fund
reports made by the township trlis-
tees of Wayne county to the county
auditor shows that in the Last three
months of 1905 and the first nine
months of 1906 the county spent s11.-
005.93 for its poor. For the last three
I he oe
1907, the county spent $s,21262. For
the last three months Of 1907 and in
Guiding the October settlement of
1908, the county has paid out $11.21s.-
"a. This makes a grand total for the
thirty-six months of $30,436. So
or an average of about $4,000 per
year
Intoxicants Cause Crime.
An inspection of the records of this
county shows that a little better than
81 per cent of the prisoners confined
at the county jail are there to Law ont
| lines assessed for public intoxication
Statistics prove, further. that 80 per
cent of all crime is traceable direct TO
the use of intoxicating liquors.
In 1906, Wayne county spent for
boarding prisoners $4.12970 In 1907
the amount spent for this cause was
$3.532-95 and for the first nine months
or this year the amount has been So
S72.10 or total of s11 1855. Taking
| 5l per cent of this as the amount
spent for the boarding of prisoners
laying out fines for public intoxication
the county spends $5,sS3.02 on them
In less than three years
There is no way to estimate the ex.
pense OF maintenance of the institu-
tions, which must be kept up TO pro-
vide Tor the public intoxication pris-
oners There is no estimate made in
the figures presented of Wayne coun-
tvs proportion of the maintenance of
penal and charitable institutions and
orphan asylums.
Much Time Lost.
There is another item of magnitude.
that of lost time. The majority OF
men convicted of public intoxication
and sent TO Jail TO lay ont their fines
is at least self supporting. When
| they are in jail they can not work and
the loss of their services and reim-
! bursement for the same can not be
calculated. The lowest fine for pub
lie intoxication is 81 and costs or s1I.
The law permits one dollar of each
fine to be offset by one days impris-
onment in jail. The least possible
time man can lose while serving
eleven days is nine working days
Property Estimate.
The aggregate amount of personal
property listed by the entire fifty-sev-
en- saloons in Wayne county is s1s.-
763. One dry goods store. that of
Hasemeier & Co. pays s1s,760 on per-
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