Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1908-07-23
APPEAL FOR LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
Communicated to the Pioneer. J

communicated to the Pioneer)
Bridgeton, July 20.
lhe question of finance is an inter
estlng one to ALL Where is money to
come from? Where, when obtained.
shall it be best applied? How shall we
increase available funds? are questions
that occur daily Any plans for the
public veal, any schemes for the indi-
vldual that assist in answering these
questions in satisfactory way should,
IN reason, be considered, well under
stood and adopted; while on the con-
trary all that is subversive of such in
terests should be abandoned.
The economic aspects of the LIQUOR
traffic are now looked into with an in
terest, and with the possibility of
showing the practical bearing of this
industry" upon the welfare of the
state and of the family, as never be-
fore
Not only in Maine, where for thirty
years statutory prohibition obtained
and where since 1914 Constitutional
Prohlbltory Amendment was adopted,
but in the seven other states, Kansas.
North Dakota, Georgia, Oklahoma,
Alabama, Mississippi, and North Caro-
lima, all now under a Prohibitory
Liquor Law, the financial outlook is in
connection with the law has been close
ly considered.
Maine stands pre-eminent among the
states of our Union in its low record
of criminals and illiterates, its large
deposits in savings banks, and its com
parative freedom from debt. The sat
isfaction of the people of this state
with the law as it now exists was
shown in late most interesting cam
paign for the election of governor; two
candidates, Haines and FernaId, both
| of the same party, were before the
| people, the first believer in the pres
ent prohibitory law yet an advocate for
re-submission of the question to the
vote of the people Fernald, however,
believed the liquor viper we'll Gagged
and did not believe in the chance of
allowing its escape. So large was the
number of delegates instructed to vote
for Fernald that Haines withdrew from
the contest, and it is confidently be.
lieved that the will of the people of the
state at the fall election will again be
expressed for their old and favorite
policy.
The feeling in Kansas in favor of
state prohibition may be found we'll
expressed in quotation from Willard
Merriam of large real estate firm
who says:
"A period of almost two years has
given us a fair test of what strict pro-
hibition will do in city of 100, 900.
Never have we had such a steady
growth in the price of real estate; more
property has been sold in the last
twenty-one months than in previous
six years. We are building houses con-
stanty, and we have ready sale for
them. There was no part of our busi-
ness that felt so instantly the ceasing
of the liquor traffic as our rental de-
partment The daily grind of eject
ment for rent among our twelve thou
sand tenants fell off to about one-sixth
of the usual amount Ia fact that land
lords everywhere may make note of).
The last two years have been the most
prosperous iii our business history"
VIM. Peet, President of large soap
manufacturing company, and of KAN
sas Cotton Mills, says
From my Investigations that have
been very extensive, I find our citizen
are paying their grocery and meat bills
much more promptly than they did
when saloons were wide open. The
merchants generally would very much
dislike to see the liquor traffic in effect
again. consider the city as better
off in every sense of the word under
prohibition law" and Dudley E. Cor
nell, the Mayor of Kansas City, adds, =
This is prosperous we'll behaved
city, a good place in which to live
good place in which to invest money
No one is wearing crepe because the
saloons have departed
Such testimony from we'll accredited
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