The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-08-24
Used Facts Figures Prohibition Does Not Prohibit but
Encourages the Vice of Disregard Of the Laways the Local Option
Wave is an Excremen Efete and Wants the Strong
of the Rise in Their Might and Fight It Off,

of continuous prohibition, and bring
into the city of Bangor not one penny
of license or other form of taxation.
These facts can not be denied. My
scheming friend, Mr.. Doty, or any
other long haired man or short hair
ed lady can not deny them because
they are historic facts. In Kansas. at
Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas City and Wichita both dives
are running wide open there and in
spite of the state law of prohibition.
They permit the saloons to run as
wide as your saloons are running
here tonight, with the name Saloon
in front of them, with the various
brands of liquors advertised in the
windows; and / have seen police Of
ficers drinking at the bars in both
Leavenworth and in Wicita, Kansas,
within the past three years. That
is the way they get around the prohi-
bition law in those two states. In
Topeka, Kansas, they simply have
joints, blind pigs. The clerk of the
Capitol Hotel told me the last time
was there that if l wanted to get a
drink should go around to a certain
shoe store, just across the road, go
up stairway and turn to the right
and knock, that man would look
through a peephole and you give him
my name and he will get what you
want. | did that and there was a
very nicely appointed clubroom where
they were serving all kinds of drinks.
The city wasn't receiving single
penny from them. 1t was at Wichita
that the famous Carrie Nation began
her crusade She made the man
whose place she first wrecked a null
timillionaire after she attacked that
Joint, and it is in just the same con-
dition now as after she got through
wrecking it. Everybody who goes to
Wichita wants to see the joint that
Carrie Nation wrecked; they stand
waiting in line for chance to get in
and buy drink. Now, if you will
stop to compare for a moment such
conditions as that with the condi-
tions that obtain in the city of Mil
waukee. Wisconsin, city which you
would call wide open, city from the
standpoint of liquor selling, you
would simply be appalled, at the COM
parison. Milwaukee saloons are
handsomely appointed, magnificent
ly furnished, I might say, we'll reg
ulated, the police force of the city
keeping the laws we'll enforced in
every particular; so much so that
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee, on a re-
cent visit to Seattle, gave me these
facts, which he himself had careful
ly compiled, in the form of compari-
sons between moral conditions in
Milwaukee and moral conditions in
prohibition cities elsewhere: In Mil
waukee, with a population of $685.
900, last year there were 1858 ar
rests, or a ratio of one to every 123
of the population; while in Portland,
Maine, there was a ratio Of one in
every 20 arrested, and in Bangor,
Maine, one in every 13-one in every
13 of the population in Bangor,
Maine, arrested last year for drunk
ness and only one in every 1873 in the
wide open city made famous by
Schlitz in the city in Wisconsin. Is
that not a comparison we ought to
listen to before determining to cast
this city of yours upon journey of
boot-legging and blind-pigging?