Gunnison news-champion., 1910-03-18

beer q we proved beyond the
pose y u question last week ~
the agHy 81 business men II
that And plenty ot other tes-
| tim the same character Will be
isrn s...d il necessary Those who
real iHt 60 know the facts a. o.
la~ roemeut ~ Mnntrose e0Hutv
Will Interested IA the lollowng
stats hv ~. C. r. Never. Civ
edIto the M1Htruse Press. IA
iettel fed March "a the original
ID v Dol. esu be seeu By anyoae wh9
elesIF
Ny antipn has been cali.d to an
anon 1us roHmunication aitEcar-
ing p paid advertisement Ia The
.'Hnl ~Hu News-f htmpion A. rub
a coii. Iuicatiou " hi''h the writer is
aSha .l ta sign with his name IL
INV ly 81 any sort ed attention
Hut o. his ausny mous writer of the
adver -sueui IN the News, hampton
mako rhe same ial-e stateHBents.
both aHectiy aud by innuenoio aud
inFpi "a that ARE made by every
deienaHr ai the saloun. 1 will reply ta
and naf On account of any in;rinsic
merit Boo The argument which the ar
ficie sff- ioi.th.
firs b rs alleged that prohibition
not uu.F de,es not lessen the use uf
iiguor bat has a tendency to increase
". u That statement Is true. why do
the liruur interests high d So II ARD
I'D 1lLk EN1 1pEOHIBITIoN? The
statement that IL costs more 10 Gu
iorce anti saloon laws than To pre-
serve order under saloons. j. n plain
faiseh1ld it Is proven In every town
that has voted out saloons that
crimf Increases from fifty 10 ninety
per crut Delta county without sa-
looms had one murder trial hn four
years Apntrose with saloons
in one town. had seven murder eases
in thf same four years, five of them
dire, F due To the saloons. aud an
other due To an old quarrel that had
its start in "a drunken brswl. The
district attorney of Montrose and
Delta counties was ant hority for the
statensent made in November. 19,s,
that in the foar years of his term.
NOntrose tthe saloon county had
paid him ioHr times as much in lees
a. Delta County had in he same
/ time
Whether prohibition prohibits or
not is merely matter of the senti-
ment III a community. Ii the people
are really and truly ready 10 banish
the saloon they make prohibition
eifeetive. A meeting was held here
ia Montrose ON Sunday evening
March eth, to approve eli the way
the city officers We're enforcing the
Ur0hisitorN laws EormerC Coneress-
man John a. I.ell said in thai meet
iHg that he had always doubled that
the law could he enforced. but that
NOW he MAS convinced thai ii could
he and he would never doubt again
the ability of a people To enforce their
laws ii they wanted them enforced.
Judge j. ". Howe, the police mag-is
trate. said that he had not voted
against the saloons because he had
not thought that the laws could he
euf0rced, but that in future he was
lined up with the anti saloon people
huting the three weeks just past ten
ur twelve bootleggers have been fined
tn he limit and put out of business
, and OF hers have been forced 10 leave
I town. The only opposition We have
/ iDund here To enforcing the laws has
come from the citizens who are
.
ai the saloons, but spend their time
I Ieruakin2 that he awscanaot he en-
{ forced. and that there is much whis-
I KEY being sold. AnNon who is fair
can spend a lew minutes here talking
/ 90 The influential and truthful people
( Oi he town. and viii soon discover
I The falsity Uf the statements made
+ hy he secret saloon champions
u is intimated that there will he a
Iu~S to the town of oiunnis0n from
licensees and from rents and water
rates The experience has been here
that an anti-saloon administration
rom posed of the best men the city
afiareis, conducts affairs 50 economic
ally and wisely that the loss of the
Hrrnse money il scarcely felt In
some towns il might he a more Sc
we're blow, but the increased prosper
itN II the business men makes them
more than willing to pay the slight
Increase i'm taxes 1 Tarkoff, a cloth
ing man OF Montrose. saws, in this
regard: Il would cheerfuIly pay
~tun to keep the saloons cut of Mont
rose His remark epitomizes the
semi iment af the business men.
anyone who really desires 10 know
the facts as TO Montruse will be in
terested also in the following signed
statement of Acting CITY Clerk
Thompson, Of Montrose, written
March 9th. 1910.
Tire statement has gone fort h and
been printed in the papers of several
of the BeiGhboring cities. that taxes
in MontrOse have been doubled as a
result ~ the eity going dry" last
spring. No greater untruth was
ever utteFed. The facts are. Assess
rnents for all city purposes Is mills,
n against l5 mille when the town
was wet The one mill teXtra)
WAS kvfed for this wear to cover
deflcit in the interest fund caused by
previous administrations transfer