The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-09-25
rett, Wenatchee and llrohibition

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Everett, Wenatchee aud prohibition
Recently we stayed a day and
night in Everett; a town of about
24,0 900 nice, intelligent and prosperous
people.
Two years ago Everett voted for
prohibition, and ever since that time
about half of the people have been
declaring the town was dead, and
charging all the ill of sickness, storms
drouth, floods, political upheavals and
the hard times that started in Wall
street in 1907, to prohibition in Ever
EFT that started in p mild form in
1900.
Has 1t Helped or Hurt the Town?
1t is evident that the following
classes have been hurt financially:
The saloon keepers and their en-
ployees.
The owners of property occupied by
saloons at higher rents than is
charged for ordinary business.
The owners of undesirable residence
shacks and rooming houses rented for
two prices to "undesirables'
Merchants whose patrons were
principally of the classes named.
Professional gamblers, in league
with saloon keepers.
The women of the red light dis
tricts.
Lawyers whose clients are mostly
Of the classes named.
The class of doctors who make
weekly examinations of the women of
the red light, and profess to keep
them healthy.
Classes Helped by Prohibition
Churches and church workers. try
ing to build up society.
Public schools and teachers, trying
to educate and moralize.
Employers of labor, whose en-
ployees are more efficient when sober
than when intoxicated.
Parents trying to bring up respect
able families.
Families of working men, who now
save money they formerly spent in sa-
looms.
Merchants who sell more drygoods,
clothing and furniture to persons who
formerly spent most of their money
with the saloons.
The last bank report shows that the
banks never were so prosperous as
now.
Everett's Industrial Exposition
While we were there Everett was
holding an Industrial Exposition
II said to one of the managers, Il
thought Everett was dead, but this
|don't look like it,"
Dead! We were never so much
|alive; just look at what we are doing"
He took me around and showed me
the things labeled made in Everett"
1T was incontestable proof of perma-
nent prosperity, Notwithstanding half
of their own citizens had protested
that they were dead, and would Use
up in their graves and howl to
levery passerby.
In connection with their exposition
they had baby show. These prohi-
bition babies were splendid little fell
lows better than Yakima or We
natchee apples. They showed no
Isigns of speck, rot, scale or syphilis.
mo culls in the box" and they were
nicely packed.
In the evening 1 went out on the
streets and they were full of men,
women and children, we'll dressed and
torderly.
Yet Everett will probably reverse
herself at the coming election, be-
cause a majority of her citizens have
been hypnotized into believing that
they can get more money if they have
saloons and their appurtenances to
fleece the working man of his wages.
"Are They Sinners Above All Others?"
The saloon business is simply the
manifestation of desire to get money
at any cost of manhood or happiness.
1t is a symptom of a disease which
breaks out in many forms. 1t is not
confined to the liquor business; the
trouble is widespread. For instance,
the citizens of Walla Walla want the
inmate of the state penitentiary kept
there in confinement in order that all
the supplies for the prisoners may be
purchased of their merchants. For a
time the policy was to send them to
different parts of the state to work on
public roads. The prisoners liked it,
because they enjoyed better health in
the open air than in confinement. The
tax payers liked it because it improved
the roads at less cost than in the ord
nary way The families of the prison
ers liked it because they could receive
in part remuneration for their labor,
or if the prisoner had no family his
earnings, small as they were, could be
saved so that when he was discharged
he could have something to his credit
and not be turned out pauperized in
money and in character. But Walla
Walla wants them at the cost of the
degeneration of the prisoners and eX-
ira expense to the state.
On the same principle the cities
ouartered would oppose the peace