The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-09-26
w. G. T. u.
To The Men and Wo-
men of Colorado

11o0kS " ~VoOS o0O
The Brewers organization masquer-
aiding under the name of The Colorado
Business Mems Home Rule League. 10
seeding cut, under the aboye title. .
lS-psgs psmphlet. (peinted in New
Yssk.) filled from cover to cover with
testimony against state vide prohibi-
ton from License States. noted (moder-
ats) drinkers. diseredited, high license
preacher. are pudiatdd ex-gov-
ssnor. . few de ID men and that fossil
Csmaittse Of Fifty who's. ancient in
vsstigstisas. u long ago disproved. are
si6s BY sids with lSo2 statistics. which.
il they had any meaing ten yssrs ago.
When they were printed. certainly have
noos to day.
And yet; this array of liquor. born
opinions. processes. on its title page
to be: "A Record of Prohibition in
Other States; \ Costly and Terrible
Lesson to the American People.
This ingenious compiler of facts. u for
the up to daEe sslks In Colorado says:
"fhs immediate and certain results of
prohibition. are increased taxes. stag
nation Of business, and decline Of local
prosperity"
But; In this veracious Record" he
onits 70 mention that Maine after fifty
ysarssF prohibition. has many more
ssvings bank dspositers than voters.
and over s225 90 on deposit 70, Every
man. women and child in the state,
five times - much - license Ohio,) ~
we'll % the FEWEST CRIMINALS
and PAUPERS of any state in the
Union. to say nothing of laying the
Fsvest Women And Children Working
For A Living. and only 80 murders In
Five Years.
Strange to say. he ignores Kansas
satjrely In his Record" though she
has the largest per capita wealth
Of any OF our states. and an Automo-
bile for Every Five farmers, 4 fact
which doesn't indicate "s;agpation" to
the average citizsn.
According to Asst Attorney General
Trickett. there are twice as many peo
pie IN Missouri. Il license state,) as
there are in Kansas. but tue tax rolls of
Kansas are q little more than One
Billion larger the tax rolls of Missouri,
- on record at thei- respective state
capitols. That Sounds prosperous,
and in fact Kansas just Had to organ.
izs more banks in these last five yesrs
than Any Other State. because YOU
see, Kansas. with oil the Ter I Ie
and Costly" doings, hss only spent
SIS per capita for liquor in the Last
Ten Yesrs. while Missouri just across
sn inag nary line, has spent s24.N
per capita!
1t 10 plain to be seen why The Colo
rsdo Business Mems Home Rule, Let.
gus omits any mention Of Kansas; her
liquor bill isn't worth mentioning"
Inotice too, that he says nothing
about North Caroliaa, whose noble ex
governor Glenn said, in this very sum
msr of 1912; "Our state is now enter
Ing upon an era o ''prosp. r;ty,. the
like Of which she never has known;
Forty Prisons Are Empty Ard Ide,
and since the state went Dry" five
years ago, schoi attendance has donb'-
ed. and there has been an increase of
one half in the attendance at the Bar-
tist. Methodist? ard Presbyterian ehur-
ehes, while 4 great wave of spirituality
has swept over the state
Another Terrible and Costly Les
soh'that this wise pamphleteer evident
ly never heard of is taught by Georgia.
In 1911 there was New Bank estab-
lished "n an average. Every Four Days,
and no old ones failed either; while this
great state. afflicted with prohibition
for the last five years, closedits books
December 3lst 1911 with Every Debt
Paid, AID $4,000 90 id the treasury.
Wouldn't it be AWFUL to Vote to
to take this state out of the path OF
peace. prosperity and p,oZ,e.s' lsee
first page,) where we have an EN-.
ply treasury. and four ol. and vacan,
houses and stores in Denvcr,-a dVuTE
In state of things like that in Geor
gia!
Wy in Atlanta real estate is boom.
Ing SO that in some sections, nobody
can lease residence for more than six
months at time" because values are
rising 80 rapidly. A Terrible and
Costly Export nee 10 the ma, who
wants t. rent house.
Then there is our quiet neighhor,
North Dakota. whose Terrible and
Costly experiment in state wide pro-
hibition for the last twenty years has
resulted in its largest city, Fargo. hav-
Ing so much money on h2nd that she
don't Need Any Taxes, and will return
air nor rant div,dcnd nm hcr aurplu. .