Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-05

The world is moving on. Pessimists
may cry retrogression, but it is not true.
The board of supervisors of Los An
geles county have proved 1t. Last Mon
day, when the local option ordinance
was passed, including wineries in its
ruling, an advance step was taken
which will result in great good. For
the benefit of those who fear disaster
will follow the closing of saloons by
vote of the people the following facts
are submitted for their comfort and
consolation:
Judge Charles A. Pollock Of North
Dakota, in an address given in Duluth,
Mimi, not long ago, had this to say
of prohibition In his state:
Il undertake to say that If the people
of Minnesota could know the exact con-
ditions about the splendid success of
the prohibition law in North Dakota,
Kansas and other prohibition states
they would demand the immediate re-
tirement of the saloon in their state.
In North Dakota our people deposit
their money in banks, grocery and dry
goods houses instead of the saloon. AS
a result our banks have increased in
the past ten years from about 100 to
over 600, and the butcher, baker and
dry goods merchant have been made
correspondingly happy.
about 10000 inhabitants and Is increas-
ing with wonderful rapidity. The bust
ness men who were there when the
population was 5000 or 6000-when we
had forty-fiVe saloons, where now we
have none, all say, no more saloons
for us Upon economic grounds they
oppose the return of the saloon, while
the people generally would oppose tho
return to saloon days in our city and
state.'
In Kansas prohibition has been tested
for many years and proved a great
success.
Prohibition has reduced pauperism
to a minimum. Kansas has fewer than
1900 paupers to population of 100000.
Eighty-seVen out of total of 105 coun-
ties have no paupers. 1t costs less
than $15O,00O a year to care for the
destitute people Of the state.
Crime has decreased more than one
half under prohibition. Thirty-five
county jails In the state are entirely
empty, stealing has decreased one
half. In many counties whole months
go by without a single case in the
criminal courts.
The law has educated the young peo-
pie to regard with aversion the social
habit of drinking. 1t is not considered
reputable to drink even moderately.
The workingmen of Kansas are for
the most part the best fed, best
clothed and best paid workingmen in
the world, largely on account of the
prohibitory law.
The newspapers in Kansas are over
Whelmingly in favor of the law. Out
of sos newspapers published in the
state, only 15 ever print liquor adyer-
tisements
Tho o,raot ,,,a JOrif,y 0f tho yoaOpIa ~
the state believe in the law. The min
inster and church members of all de-
nominations, the 10000 school teachers
the best business men, the chief JUS
tice of the supreme court, the govern
or, the attorney general, the editors OF
the most influential papers-all believe
the prohibitory law is one of the best
laws Kansas ever had
America has over 900 people
who are living under local option and
prohibitory laws. The temperance leg
islation Is making fast headway all
over the country.
The south is rapidly becoming prohi-
btion through local option.
In Texas, where local option pre-
walls, the counties having the largest
number of saloons are BeXar, Harris,
Tarrant Dallas, Galveston, Ell Paso,
McLennan, Boure, Brazo Angeline and
MOHlSOllely HGS6 NOulLlGS I'D v I
but one-sixth of the total population
of the state and according to the Of
ficial records they had, in the last
year. 331 murders or nearly one-third
of all the murders in the state, or
twice their proportionate share.
The strongest and most representa-
tive dry counties in the state are Gay
son, Ellis, Hill, Lamar, Hunt, Tan
min, Smith, Johnson, kaufman, Den
ton, Hopkins, Parker and Collin. These
counties have one-siXth the popula-
tion of Texas and yet they furnish but
II of the murders, which is one-fif-
teenth of the whole number.
In other words the group of saloon
counties has five times as many muir
ders, population considered, as the dry
counties.
In Los Angeles nearly all the muir
ders committed are the result Of drink.
When a man kills his wife "he had
been drinking heavily" if he shoots
his best friend, che was under the in
fluence of liquor" and so on through
the calendar.
Professor Bunge, NJ. D., Phi. D.,
professor of physiology at the Unlver-
ity of Basle, Switzerland, in an ar
ticle on alcoholic poisoning and degen-
Grafton, published in the Quarterly
Journal of Inebriety last spring, sums
UP the results OF his statistical re-
searches as follows: 1.-THE daughter of
a drinker is rarely, If ever, able to
nurse her children" He previously
had shown that other milk could not
be substituted without iniuring the