The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-12-22

own their own homes: in Rhode Is
| land. 2S per cant; in Massachusetts,.
/ "a per cent Coming 10 the middle
states. which are more prosperous. -
per cent of the North Dakota families
| live in their own homes. 50 per cent
of the Nebraska families. 40 per cent
of the Missouri families.
In Boston, wnete saloon regulation
is almost perfect. there are five times
as many arrests per capita as in dry
Portland Maine Boston pays SO per
capita for police. Portland pays SI.U5.
Boston pays - cents per capita for
jails; Portland pays two cents. In
Kansas, so often jeered o. s. counties
have empty jails, 81 no criminal cases
on their doekets. a counties have no
paupers, - counties have not even
any poor houses.
Economics of Question.
Now as to the economies of the
question. Not one per cent of the
farm products of the United States go
into the manufacture of liquor. What.
will you do with your corn? As the
old Missouri farmer said. Raise moro
hogs and less hell In a dollars worth
Of ordinary manufactured product
u cents so to labor, 81 cents to the
producer of material and only 10 cents
to middle men. In a dollars worth
of liquor, nine cents so to labor ana
rs cents to the producer. Liquor trar.
lic breaks down labor. Atlanta. with
prohibition, has had an increase ct
bank clearings exceeding that of every
other city in the country.
will you forego paving and sewer
improvement? Did the saloons ever
help you pave? 1t takes all you get
from them to take care of the fruits
of the liquor traffic. Wenatchee voted
dry. cutting out $4,000 of license
m ney and has now entered upon an
era of sewer building and street
provement showing more prosperity
than she ever had before She was
taking in $4,000 from the saloons
and paying $10,S00 for police Now
she is using her Jail for woodshed.
Peruna Gives No Money.
THE blind pig and Peruna argu-
ment is threat The anti-sa'opn peo-
pie will be as ready to dive out the
blind pig as the saloon, and if those |
who are worrying about the blind pig
Will cooperate there will not be any
blind pigs
I'm sheer despair. it seemed to me.
the distinguished gentleman announc- |
ed the exclusive news that the Peruna |
company has contributed $4,000 A |
year to the Anti-Saloon League. Does
anyone in this house believe that? |
The Anti-Saloon League getting $50
900 from anywhere? The league is |
made up in each state of various or
" n iua MI i,h
a leader and whose members agree
to contribute five cents, o cents. some
small amount, each month to fight the
saloon. The funds in each state are
kept separate. They are managed by
the citizens of the state. small pro
rate is sent to the national oragniza-
ton. 1t is organized in the same way
that any fraternal order is organized
The sum total of all the money
that gets near the national organiza-
ton doesn't amount to half what you
heard was given by the Peruna
Manufacturing company. Mayor
Rose knew it this afternoon. 'FaIsus
in uno; falusu in omnibus
The Reformed Saloon.
When the devil was sick the devil |
a saint would be: when the devil was
wen, the ueV1l SAINT was he. The |
liquor interests knows it stands CON
demned. 1t is striving to make a death |
bed repentance. The brewers spend |
their time in abusing the men in the
saloon. Yet the brewery is the insti-
tuition that stands most condemned
The profit goes to the brewery; the
saloon man is almost hired man. The |
men | have the most sympathy for are
the men in the saloon business When |
you vote North Yakima dry you will |
give to lot of men who are capable |
of better citizenship a. chance to have |
1t. If you vote wet, that wet vote |
will save the liquor traffic, and the
death bed repentance will be forgot
ten. If you vote dry no other bust
ness will lose money but the saloon
and the brewery. The rest will soon
boom and prosper, and you will have
a clean city, a home city, a city of
which you may well be proud. today
and tomorrow and for all time"