Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-20
What Abo ut the Saloon?

Voters urged to analyze very carefully he compar
ison of conditions in Albany and in Salem which occu-
pied half page in he local press on Sunday.
If friends who would retain the saloon will give
this ad sufficient circulation, who are opposing the
saloon might we'll assist them in defrayng the expense
Salem, with little thar three times the popula
ton, wide open saloons and prohibition laws vo-
late, shown have had 375 arrests during the fs-
cal year, September a. 1872 to September "a, 1918,
against 164 in Albany for violation of liquor
laws.
Salem, without liquor law arrested for every 81
persons whereas Albany, with and stringent prohi
bton laws arrested one for each 27 persons.
An Illuminating and welcome comparison Get it right
in your mind Mr.. Voter, and when Salem goes dry
when stringent laws enacted that much OPP
posed they must inevitably be by the saloon element
if arrests in Salem during the first few do not in
crease to exceed 10 per cent rest assured saloons will
never, never be re-estabshed in Salem
Salem is shown by our saloon friends to have now
seven arrests week average for liquor law viola
tons, notwithstanding legal sanction of open saloons
(no liquor laws volate) and by the same acceptable
most happily shown that, under prohibi
ton laws, which bound to be resented by nfuen
ta element stand to have but nine two per
week.
OF course you understand this during the first few
years of prohibition, when arrests might be expected to
multiply, and when experience shows them have in
creased in much greater ratio until the disgrunted ee
ment is made to understand that saloons longer
tolerated.
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in order for it.
True, the ratio thus out Albany under prohibition
laws, show Sc per of to be liquor law viola
tions, and Salem, with such laws violate shows SIS
per cent.
Another fatal argument don't miss it, Five per cent
than half the criminal in Marion county are
for violation of liquor laws-and, think of it---n a
county which egalizes the liquor business.
Over half the criminal we have to contend with
caused by violation of such liquor laws as we have
much of Tho haIa aofo 20
way another?
All this data is said to have been compiled because
we have been telling the people of Salem that ALBANY
was the gamer because of going dry"
Splendid We re-submt the proposition, Albany
in whskey state, during the first few years of her
struggle against saloons with arrest for 27 of her
population per year, for vic laon Of stringent prohbi
ton laws is decidedly gamer in the struggle for bet
ter conditions than she would be with open saloons and
arrest per year for each 81 of her population
She is more than a gamer. Her record by compari-
son to Salem, is an inspiration. Il demonstrates
Splenddy the degree of favor with which the minority
accept the popular verdict. II shows a remarkable
degree the general agreement that saloons go.
The same compilation shows how Albany went dry in
1906 on county vote in which the city Of Albany went
wet and how after six years. 1872 the city voted dry,
625 to 474. Fine, isn't il.
II is recited that the city voted wet in the state cleo
ton later but with the city dry, IL is not strange that
this question not made a paramount issue locally
contention.
This article furnished by William H. Trndle, Sec.
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