The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-10-18
COMMUNICATED.

In voting local option you hurt your
self and your neighbor. You hurt
thousands of farmers who raise corn,
rye, barley, hops, potatoes and grapes,
as 1t takes all of these different kinds
of products to make whiskey, beer and
wine. Just think of the amount of
grain that is consumed in making the
different kinds of drinks, and the
amount of hops that is consumed in
making beer, which is Washington s
main product on the sound
When all this grain is sold the ship
ping gives employment to railroad
employees, as we'll as the railroad COM
company, which all helps. And after
the grain is shipped it goes to the
brewery and distillery, where there
are thousands of hungry families wait
ing for the product to arrive that
their fathers may be able to get en-
ployment, which will enable them to
buy clothes and prepare the children
for school. After this product is man
ufactured into the different kinds of
liquors it is transferred back to diff
ferent parts of the country, which
gives employment to dray lines as
well as the railroads. Then it is sold
to the saloons, and on delivery our
dray lines here get the drayage.
Then the saloons here pay the city
5000 each for eight of them, $4,000.
Then the proprietors employ nine bar
tenders at SIS per month making
$500 per annum This money is
spent here in rents, groceries, etc.
Their wives buy hats, dresses and all
their wearing material. All this helps
re nd 70
ers to sell wood, etc. 1t would cause
the city to lose eight saloon licenses,
amounting to $4,000. 1t would cause
eight proprietors of saloons to leave,
who spend for living at least 500 per
month, amounting to $4,000 per an
nun. 1t throws out nine bar tenders
at the rate of $75 each per month,
$500 per annum. 1t hurts our cleo
trio light company at the rate of 800
per month, of 81 200 per annum. This
amount is paid by the saloons. 1t
would hurt our telephone company,
eight saloons and eight house phones,
1886 per annum. 1t would hurt our
ice industry, for they are the princi-
pal buyers. All of these wastages
hurt our business. Hurts our carpen-
ters, as the saloon men are building
anu repairing more Ut less all lue IIiIle
On the other hand what do we gain
if our town goes dry? We gain moth
ing and lose all the revenue we have
mentioned. and have no effect on the
amount of whiskey sold for the people
will send out for it. We are informed
on good authority that Spokane liquor
dealers are working for this town to
go dry, a swell as they are for others,
so they can get the liquor traffic from
here.
Now fellow citizens and our lady
friends, let us wake up and show how
we appreciate our home and the bust
ness we have here. Those people who
are giving Oroville knock are people
who are jealous of our town, and want
to keep us back. For some day, not
far distant, we will out class them,
for we have the resources at our door.
We will have wholesale center here
second to none on the east side of the
Cascades. All we want to do it to
pull together and keep what business
we have and get more. We will be
selling Spokane goods in time to come.
This may sound fishy, but if you had