La Junta tribune., 1909-07-17
BEFORE AND AFTER.
Some Clean Cut Facts Fer the Con-
sideratien Of Residents ef Prohibi.
ton Ia Junta.

| biliHSnan, AlaOurla, lOr It's I4rst
year of prohibition. shows an increase
in taxable values. The buildings for
merly occupied by saloons are now
used in other lines of business and
the city's net revenue was 500. 900
more in 1905 than In 1907, the last
year OF the saloon.
i Its record for 1905 is fourth
the arrests for drunkenness. one.half
FOR assault and battery, one.h half for
assault and murder. and one-half for
disorderly conduct than 1t hal during
its license days.
!. United States statisticians report
that Birmingham is one of the most
. fortunate cities in the country in
the matter of taxes
. Atlanta. Georgia, at the end of its
. first prohibiti-n year. with a hostile
. ahy government, makes this showing:
. Total receipts for 1907, including II.
. lnor licenses. s2.442.07l. total re-.
. ceipts, with no liquor licenses fer
: 1905, S2,6Ss,0si. Increase OF Income
. under prohibition, $2il.0l3. and an
. increase Of property value OF over S..
. OO0,O 900, Its record for crime in 1907
. is 22,Ol3 cases. in 1908 1t is only 49,.
. $50. decrease of more than 5000.
. The city rapers announce the sale
; II real estate at remarka ly high
. prices.
, Atlanta is in Fulton county. and
. It's chief of rural police reports for
J eleven months of 1908 only 81 arrests
. for drunkenness on the public high.
. way. as against l52 during the same
; months in 1907. general arrests have
J decreased one-third and there has
; been no criminal assault or attempt
. at one during the year
; Columbus. Gecr Ia. faced 1893 with
. a deficit OF more than $50. 900 With
. ont the usual liqucr license Ct S22.-
. COO. only $4,000 being raised by a
, special half mill tax, II came through
. the year with every debt raid and
. every department of the city govern
. ment with cash TO It's credit
. The Thanksgiving message Of the
. governor Of Kansas contained these
. words: "OnC-Jhird of our counties
) are without prisoners in their jails
. half of our counties sent no convicts
; paupers IN their almshouses; one
, 20 our prisons this year. and one.
} half Of our prison inmates never
} lived in Kansas long enough TO ac-
; quire residence here. Churches and
, schools flourish. the spiritual outlook
) Is hope ful and the saloon is practical
) ly banished.''
) Meridian. Mississippi. wiped out
, the saloon fifteen years ago. and II
} has jumped, says its leading paper.
} the Star. from a little provincial
; booze.fighting town to that OF a
, boozeless city of commanding emf
} time the population has more than
, doubled, water works have been pur-
) chased which cost 100000: street
; improvements have cost 1876, 900. and
, schools and churches have been built
, and the religio life OF all creeds
, have wldened and deepened. Manu-.
, factories have been established. rail.
) way facilities Increased and no In.
, crease In taxes. While crime has
, enormously decreased
; Knoxville. Tennessee. chief OF po-
, lice says: This city is one hun.
} dred per cent better than when We
; had saloons: then arrests figured ny
, TO $50 per week. now we rarely have
} So including all sorts OF cases
; Teachers. policemen and firemen
; have had salaries raised this year
} for the first time In twelve years.
, Judge Thomas A. X. Nelson. Of
; Knoxville. says: III larger and more
regular attendance at Sunday school
1 preaching and oiher services at our
4 4hurch,s. II n larger and more reg
4 ilar n a,teldance at schools. by better
4 shod. better clad and cleaner chill
. dron: II $4,000 more for Increased
! room. better equipment and larger paid
. teachers: II so per cent decrease OF
= arrests for drunkenness and kindred
. crimes; II decrease and even great
or per cent Of murders and all grades
necessarics Is less helpful than the
same amount spcn, for liuqor: II
these things indicate failure. then
prohibition has failed IA Knoxville"
In the city OF Louisville. Kentucky.
last year there were fcrty.seyen muir