Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-07-24
AGAINST.
by ALVIN MUELLER,
President State Hop Growers
Association.
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INITIATIVE BILL NO. 3.
Statewide PrOhibitiOn-Answ
Honest Facts in Opposition.

The history of prohibition, L
states where it has been tested, is
such that, if proper consideration
were given the subject, few person.
would vote for initiative bill No. 8
which should be properly entitled a.
act in favor of breweries located out.
side OF the state, and against those
within the state employing LABOR
here, living here, and paying taxes
here"
This bill imposes upon the citizen,
who uses liquor as a beverage, anG
not to excess, restriction that will
engender disregard for this bill itself,
and disrespect for laws in general.
1t is unnecessary and vicious legis-
lation, as the state of Washington
has local option law, under which
any community may eliminate the sa-
loon, where such an action is desire.
by majority. Initiative bill No.
8 would destroy local self-govern-
ment, which is dear to the neart OF
every American and represents the
basic principles of our constitution.
On April of this year Presiden;
Wilson reiterated his declaration
made to Rev. Thomas B. Shannon.
of Newark, N. j.: II am in favor of
local option, and am thorough be-
lever in local self-government, anc
believe that every self-governed COM
munity, which constitutes a social
unit, should have the right to contro
the matter of the regulation or the
withholding of license"
Buy Outside State.
Section Is of the Anti-Saloon
league bill No. 3 provides for the pur-
chase of more liquor outside of the
state and the shipment of the same
into the state than is at present drank
within the state, but no provision is
made for the manufacture within the
state.
The Anti-Saloon league makes am
pie provision for the importation into
the state of liquor of all kinds, but
makes it a crime to manufacture
beer within the state.
The state of Washington is geo.
graphically particularly adapted to
the manufacture of beer, owing to
the high quality OF hops and barley
grown within it's borders. Washing
ton breweries manufacture quality
of beer that Is second to none In the
world, and have built up an export
business valued at over $2,00O,00c
annually, and bring that sum back
into this state to be paid out In wages
for labor to circulate and add to the
wealth of the state.
Every Chamber of Commerce ans
Commercial club within this state is
making an earnest endeavor to in
duce immigration and to secure ad-
ditional capital for public enterprises.
The adoption of this law would force
over 10000 men out of employment
and compel them to leave the state
or to seek work along other lines
which are now overcrowded.
The prohibitionists quote Kansas
as model prohibition state and rely
upon their perverted facts and fig
ures to establish the alleged benefi-
cial effects Of prohibition. The re-
port of the comptroller of the cur
rency, June 4, 1913, page 40. shows
a total bank deposit in Kansas per
capita, $110.12, with $4.02 per capita
in savings banks; Washington depcs-
it's, $129.2S per capita, and $37.62
per capita in savings banks for tie
same period. Nebraska, Colorado.
Washington. Oregon and California
all exceed Kansas in per capita ex-
penditure for educational purposes.
Kansas per capita is $3.50; Wash
lngtOn, $49.36; Nebraska, $2S.45;
Colorado, $3.50; Oregon, $49.2l;
and California, $51.S7. (See pages
118 and 119 of the Statistical Alb
stract of the United States for 1929
The government census for 1910.
showing population from 1900 to
1910, shows an increase for North
Carolina of II per cent, Tennessee 8
per cent, Maine per cent, and Kan
sas Is per cent, all dry states, white
Washington has an increase of 800
per cent, the greatest in the Union.
This unprecedented increase in the
population of the state of Washing
ton indicated that people migrate to
a wet state, where there are great
business opportunities, and not to
dry states, where restrictive legisla-