Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-03-31

iaSI tAdC luSlI foreign demand IS
growing and not by reason Of any In.
crease in the local demand.
In support of our statement that the
taxes have been raised in <NVyandotte
county in which Kansas City, Kas.. is
located, we present the following aff1-
davit:
State of Missouri, County of Jack.
son, SIS.
w. A. Keys, being first duly sworn
on his oath says, that on February 81,
1908, he called at the office of the
county clerk, in and for pyandotte
county, at Kansas City, Kansas, and
he was informed by the said county
clerk, in said office, that during the
years 1904-19G5, the rate Of taxation
per hundred was s1.9O, and that dur
ing the years 1906-1907, after the as.
sessed valuation on property was rails.
ed, the rate of taxation was raised
from $1.90 per hundred to 1910 per
hundred
w. A. Keys.
Subscribed and sworn to before me.
this 2Sth day of February, 1908.
(SeaD Don G. Meyer
Notary Public.
My commission expires Nov. 9, 1910.
That the police force of Kansas
City, Kas., is inadequate and that con-
d1tlons there are unsafe is evidenced
from the fact that from February 1,
1908. up to February 10, 1908, twelve
persons reported to the police of Kan
sas City, Kas., that their homes IN that
city had been robbed (This last
statement Is from the Kansas City
Star-Times, of February IA, 1908.
This is the leading prohibitionist
newspaper Of the west) Mr.. Trick
ett's statement that the crimes com
mitted in Kansas City, Kas., are by
criminals comm from Kansas City,
Mo-, even If true, only goes to prove
that there is no police protection in
Mr.. Trickett's city.
If the claim that fifty-one Of the
10S buildings shown by the brewers
to be vacant, are now occupied, then
prosperity must have come to Kansas
City, Kas, within the past forty-fve
days, for photographs Of these 10s
empty business buildings were taken
on the 10th and 18th days Of Febru-
airy, 1908.
The morals of Kansas City, Kas.,
have not grown better under prohibit
ton and drunkenness has increased as
Will be shown by the following, copied
from the record OF the ponce court:
Arrests Under Open Saloons.
January, 1906, total number arrests
202, of which "a were DRINKS.
February. 1906, total number arrests
1873, of which IS were drunks.
March, 1905, total number arrests
$50, of which SO were DRINKS.
April, 1906 total number arrests
161. of which 67 were drunks.
May, 1906, total number arrests 100,
of which 81 were drunks
June. 1906, total number arrests 267,
of which 81 were DRINKS.
Total arrests during the six months
1923, of which 3s9 were DRINKS.
Arrests After Saloons We're Closed.
206, of which 81 were DRINKS.
February 1907, total number arrests
256, of which 68 were drunks.
March, 1907, total number arrests
1856, of which 81 were DRINKS. :
April, 1907, total number arrests 222,
of which So we're DRINKS.
May, 1907, total number arrests ZIG,
OF which SO were DRINKS.
June 1907, total number arrests 352
of which 95 were DRINKS.
Total arrests during the six months
1 ,497, of which 407 were drunks.
Mr.. Trickett alleges that prohibition
exists In Topeka and other Kansas
towns. This Is only one more Of Mr..
Trickett's fanciful dreams, as it is a
well known fact that liquor can be
bought by any one desiring to buy it;
all that is required is the conventional
affidavit and any drug store will I'LL
the prescription.
AS an evidence of the truth Of this,
in the month Of September, 1907, there
was filed with the probate Judge in
Topeka, Kas., 22,9S3 affldavits show
ing sales by drug stores alone.
Neither Mr.. Warder nor the Minis
terial association offer any REPUTATION
of the fact that the Trickett brand of
prohibition has failed to prohibit in
Kansas City, Kas. That it does not is
evidenced by the fact that in the
month of December, 1907 there was
filed with the probate Judge of the
county in which Kansas City, Kas., is
situated af1davits showing in round
5000 sales of liquor by
druggists These sales may range
from a gill to any number of gallons.
From the number of sales one Nigh,
well conclude that Kansas City, Kas..
is an exceedingly unhealthy place
and that liquor is the panacea for all
ailments, or that perjury is a conven-
tional crime in that city, for with
each sale an affidavit was made br
the purchaser that he is ILL.,
The laws of the state permit drug
gists to sell liquor to any man who
will make an affidavit that he has
some ailment for which whiskey or
beer is supposed to be good, and he
can secure either without any trou-
BILE. These afidavits do not represent
one in twenty Of the actual sales
made. And SO the drug stores. boot
leggers and blind tigers reap the bene.
fit Of a system Of prohibition which
takes from the city the revenue it for
merly derived
And in the face Of the sales of LIQUOR
in Kansas City, Kas.. one must re-
member that Kansas City, Mo-, is only
across the street and that there are
$50 saloons paying 100000 annually
to the city and county.
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