The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-16
WAYNE WHEELER
ON THE SALOON
Says Deposits Have In
creased in all Dry
Territory.
TAXES HAVE NOT GONE UP
Addresses Audience in Trim
ity Baptist Church Last
Night.
Gives Numerous Instances of Increase
OF Capital I'm Dry Cities and Coun-
ties of Ohio-Says Saloon Traffic
cannot be Regulated.

wayne Wheeler, leader of the Anti
Saloon forces of the country, was in
Marion last night and spoke from the
pulpit of the Trinity Baptist church.
He made stirring address discussing
all phases of the liquor problem.
one of the features of his address
was to show how selling liquor and
the open saloon Injuries all legitimate
business. But the matter of cutting
out the saloon has been on trial for
three years and we have practical re-
suits to prove our theories.
FOR instance, in East Liverpool the
individual deposits in the banks have
increased 100000.
In Washington county there are
$2O,O0O,000 more deposits in the banks
than there were three years ago.
In Logan county the deposits are
10 to 10 per cent. greater than they
were and the increase In the building
and loan companies deposits is $780,
900.
Middleport has doubled her deposits
In her banks since that county voted
out the saloons
Scioto county people have increased
their deposits 81 per cent.
Wood county people have increased
their deposits 10 per cent.
The people of Wyandot have in
creased their deposits by more than
100000.
Those of Ashtabula show an in
crease of deposits in the banks of
$4,000.
One hundred and forty-six of the
business men of Athens have gone on
record in statement that the busl-
ness of their city has been improved
by excluding the saloons.
Mr. Wheeler argued that saloons
reduce the number of taxpayers by
decreasing the earning power of men;
that the liquor business pays little
taxes while 1t takes large revenues
from the people; that 1t never has and
1t never will repay one-tenth the dam
age 1t does to society.
He says they have put in flower
stores in many cities especially Spring
field and now sell roses for people to
wear in their buttonholes and there
by transpose the bloom from the
noses of inebriates to roses on their
garments.
1t was argued that no dry county
has increased its tax rate although
faced by the Smith one per cent. law
which is all right. But Cincinnati
which is as wet as whisky and beer
can make 1t and thoroughly degraded,
debased and corrupt beyond descrip-
tion has declaged she cannot get along
with such limitations although she
has 1900 saloons to pay her taxes
and more than thousand bootlegging
joints.
But said the speaker, you Will soon
have men come among you and tell
you that they are about to make the
saloons respectable, they will establish
nice Sunday school and love-feast in
stitutions. Don't be deceived by the
wiles of the serpent If the saloons
come back to Marion county they will
take II to be new lease of power
and they will be more open, lawless,
degrading, blatant and destructive of
good economy and good morals than
they have been heretofore. Wheeler
said II the liquor sellers were to make
their business respectable, If they
should refuse to sell to drunkards and
minors and after hours and on Sunday
ana TO support BhmDHnB anu wine
rooms and bawdy houses and all the
immoral features of their establish
ments, the traffic would go bankrupt
in twenty-four hours. SO the idea OF
a good saloon is ridiculous.
The Improvement of the condition
of laborlng men where the saloons
have been removed has been demon
strated in Portsmouth where unsklll-
ed workingmen have increased theli
wages 6-10 per cent. and skilled
workingmen have gone up ~ 5-1O pei
cent.
John Lennon, the great working
mems brother and champion, Is go
ing up and down the land preaching
and exhorting the men to keep away
from the saloon, to vote It out ano
keep 1t out. He says drink Is push
ing more children into the factories
than all other causes combined.
But the bootleggers say the law II
violated. And they are the vlolators
They desire to get credit for their owl
crimes. But this is nothing new
These men, violated every regulator,
law ever made. hourly, daily, yearly
/ ana by the decade.
4 Now, SO long as the liquor traffic