The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1910-10-27

people have been doing. We may not
have seen it heretofore. but we have been
rearing its results, for if "all do it, then
am I excused when the opportun-
lty occurs to graft" say our pub
lie men. Then if we in mass do this
abominable little meanness need we be
surprised if some of those in high places
do greater wrongs?
1t will take keener vision than men
have to discover the amount of taxes
added in consequence of this debauching
of public conscience, bv the brides which
the liquor traffic has used to support
her nefarious doings. Add this item to
the foregoing. Your business calls you
to go into the saloon occasionally. You
would not be thought of as narrow, al
though you know any man is better
without than with liquor, and it is peril
GUS to use it, so don't as general thing;
but in order to show your good will for
those who are there, as we'll as the pro-
prietor, you ask the boys to have some
thing at your expense. How many
times during the year do you do this?
Count this up and see how much addi-
tional taxes this will add to your bill,
and find how much the saloon saves you
and let US know, as we want facts, not
what the liquorites say.
This was the shot made of these facts
which Captain Right had placed in the
chambers of cold Invincible," ready to
hurl at any gun THAI might reveal its
hiding place. A moment after the
enemy's shot had struck Reliable, and
Invinclble was pointing towards that
point where the smoke of the brewers
gun was seen. and that old gunner, I'm
erring, was sighting for shot. The
men supporting the gun put their fingers
in their ears and stood upon the tips of
their toes as the word from the captain
was heard. Look out. boys" and then
the old gun doomed and with strainlng
eyes all followed the flying shot. A mo-
gun was seen flying in the air in pieces
with fragments of it's mountings and
other materials, and on this wild
shout went up from the ranks of the
dries. The shot had struck the brewers
gun square in the mouth, bursting it
from mouth to breach, ripped to pieces
its bomb proof, wrecked all its belong
ings We insert here statement of the
latest confirmatory of this truth, which
is coming up from every field where the
progressives have conquered, and is only
one of hundreds of like character:
Dayton. Sept. 17.-Dayton's tax levy
for next year will be only ID mills-one
mill less than when the saloons were
voted out two years ago-despite the
curtailment of an annual revenue OF
$4,000 from saloon licenses. This an
nouncement of the ways and means
committee of the council today squelches
the strongest argument of the wtes, who
held that the levy this year would ex-
coed Is mills. Since the town went dry
the entire warrant Indebtedness of the
city has been paid off and many i'm
provements are now under way and are
planned for next year. The estimate
of expenditures and resources for next
year. as completed today, shows the ex-
penditures to total $22. $50, and the re-
sources at $l9,450, leaving $4,000 to be
raised by direct tax.-Post- Intelligencer.
This from Kansas:
During the past year 4S of the los
Kansas counties, with population of
430. 274, did not send single prisoner to
the state penitentiary.
Fifty-seven out of the lO5 counties had
not single pauper.
Eighty-seven of the lO5 counties did
not send a single insane patient to an
institution.
Kansas death rate is the lowest IN the
world, u in 1000 persons.
The state still boasts of the lowest per-
centage of illiteracy.
Kansas bank deposits have increased
from $4,000, 900 to $190,000,000
All of this has happened under ten
years of prohibition.
Not being compelled to use their
money for taxes to support prisons, poor
houses and insane asylums, which are
largely filled by victims of liquor, the
people of Kansas are able to put their
money in the banks or to buy automo-
biles, and to use their taxes in building
school houses and improving health con-
ditions.
Prohibition has been a success in
Kansas because that state has elected
officials who enforce the law-Omaha
News.
This is the kind of material thatcounts
and if the vets can produce facts show
ing the contrary, it is now time that
they were forthcoming, as the day of
sentiment is over. This accounts for the