The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-05

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thing toward attracting snve.torr N
This city. .CanitaI" he said. s.is not
attra cta5 n anv civ u,hyrh must A.
aena IA, = large nart ~ az lravan,ie
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Criminal statistics and the records
of violent deaths during the year 1907,
when the saloon was In full blast. and
the fofiowing year, swnen the CITY ana
county were UNDER prohtpat'enr are
interesting. In round numbers the
violent deaths In isVt totaleo d41'
IN 1913. l6S. In the year OF the sa-
loon tnere were 30 deaths from rail-
road accidents; IN the following pro-
hibitton year only 10. In the year OF
the saloon there were j / deaths from
! stab wounds; under the first year OF
prohibition there were but 2. Anoth-
er comparison shows ~ deaths from
gun shot wounds In the saloon year,
as against. 90 under the nrst year OF
prohibition. There were nrteen deatns
from acute aiconoilsin IN 1so'' anu
only TWO In isos. -3
Figures taken from the police court
docket in 1907 and 1908 show that
liz the former year there were 1928
the latter year only 945. The ar
rests for drunkenness In 1907 num-
bered 2,42S; in 1908, this was cut
down to a total of 74s. The number
of arrests for assault and battery. as
sault to murder and ife-beating were
each split nearly in half. Taking all
! offenses, the net decrease in the num-
| Der OF arrests in 1908 under the prev
| ious year when the saloon system
! was in operntion shows the startling
total of 4,949.
| On New Years day in 1909 there
were OF fewer prisoners In the Jeffer-
son county iail than there were on
/ tbe same day in 1908. The sheriff's
| Office asser,s that the number of ar
rests under nrohibition during the two
4 wears that II has been in force have
| dronned or by from forty to fifty
nor cent II must be rernembe that
| a large MN, her Of the arrests in 1908
| ,vare rnada under abnormal confii-
| t;ons-tbat Is. when the long strike
of coal miners was under way.
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crime are SHOWN os lns ie'oi"s VI
the ponce anu county 9niseis'
ri. ,,a' ttl,e -, ~. Iu' nrs;,ab. chow,
iiie Sotiut ., =. 1911 D'ous $3.50 $50.
w w ul'ue"fa' AZ a,',, 81
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~ rSryIias fnrna r, ca,,,a r. The macs
49, ,,o,,tica1 s,,cSass c.ilea for the
! q " ~ tho ltauor Interests Open
ava eaprant ,,iaIatI4r. az t},s.- va aps.
try,t,,-i+t -4rt..,t-rr,ttor,- ,,ntIer- which ALI
I,nt tho most thinklp xenvisted- ee,,n-
Us u, which there were cities Of inn
nortancer went dry places of the size
Of Hunts7flle turned IN the fIispensary
for relief while birmingham. the Iarg-
est city in Alabama. Montgomery, the
canital and Mobile. the States sea-
port. stuck to the saloon because ii
was most strongly entrenched In them
! AS it's territory was gradually but GER
tainly restricted, the liquor interests
concentrated more and more in an
effort to get and keep political con-
troll Getting it, instead of obsying
the laws which 1t made for effect,
the liquor traffic disobeyed them more
arrogantiy in its blindness.
Jefferson county was the first big
county to throw off the yoke. 1t
was surprise. for the liquor inter
ests were thoroughly organized. and
liquor politicians controlled the cleo
ton machinery. Following this tri-
umph. the Alabama Anti-SaIeeH
League redoubled its efforts TO or
ganize the State and get control of
the Legislature. 1t was successful In
this, and at the last session of the
Legislature u State wide prohibition
law was passed to take effect jan
uary /. 1908.
! Defeated, the -iatfeF interests set
about discrediting the law. Case af-
ter case for violation of the prohibit
ton law went to the supreme court.
They piled up there. Finally de-
in test CnSa waq rendered