Semi-weekly herald., 1912-10-28

ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE LIQUOR QUESTION
By Charles stelze
Whether a necessity need not
doubt that in particulars
social The question which should
abolition of the liquor traffic will
has been repeatedly stated that the brew
cries and closed the who the grain out OF
will suffer evousy that the glass bottle
blowers makers, horeshoe harness makers machnists
and other of workers will loose
their jobs the saloon put out of business This why hundreds
thousands of SOBER vote to retain
the saloon in every part of tre United States.
in the antisaloon bus
therefore safely depend the figures furnished
the its bulletin, it makes the
following comment the relative Importance of the brewing and
distiling industres
Importance by ranking in number of
this the brewing industry ranks twenty
among industries the and the dsng indus
The tonnage on the railroads derived from the liquor
industry only Oo3 of its total business There isn't much
OF total grain for 1911 only
business: There isn't much in
the Invariably when compared with other industries
the liquor business is at disadvantage
Following five of industries: Textile and its
finished products Iron and steel and their finished products um
er and its manufactures leather and its finished products paper
printing Comparing the number of wage eaners each 81
100000 of industries find the folowng
2Sl, lumber 597 leather 469
that the liquor business employees only
workers for the smoun invested is the
in the number employed the other 1--WE groups OIL
industries.
product of each individual worker
PERCENTAGE which directly him? Here
figures; 49, textiles 1871 1885,
1885, lumber 26S POS This shows that in the liquor
industry receives only onehrd much received
the workers in the other five groups 1t is
doubedy industry higher worker
paid other industries but it must be remembered
that the liquor industry employees few women and children
so that naturally higher than of the
industries with which it is compared.
Upon basis safely that the annual
slsOO0oo0OO that this is the
the retail price for intoxicating liquor
for bread and clothing about
Suppose that the spent for liquor should be
spent clothing What would be the effect labor?
for 1911 gives the following figures
reference of these OF Industries as hey are
employed paid and the
of material used WAGEEARNERS EMPLo4ED-n
liquor industry 6292O bread and clothing 493 $685. WAGES
liquor, $45252000 bread and clothing S244
196,OOO COST OF RAW Intoxicating liquor, $780,
10000; bread and clothing $744, $4,000
1t at once apparent that the spent
nearly workers, who would collectively
receive five and onehaf times much nearly $4,000
ALL Of the material
sary produce worth of bread and clothing (rea
price, s60o00Oooo than the
industry This the employment of trem-
endousy number workers addition to those considered
calculation
The advocate liquor will that must in
bnders statesmen and all others
engaged in the manufacture of the articles used the
this factor has been eliminated from the
process said with reference to the
upon claimed for the read
clothing busncss, only 1t requires
eli 00 900 worth of bread and clo.nn than it
liquor value This of the principal
why much in the bread and
clothing BUSINESS the liquor business could easily be DEM
that the for liquor should be spent
clothing saloon
and bar tenders find work in legitimate business
prses the who bottles furniture de-
livery and other thing used with the
liquor would be steadily employed for there would