The Arvada enterprise., 1914-10-15

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Cost CoLOrado
Taken from Hall and Summers Debate at Pueblo, Colorado
August 3st 1914.
Colorado has 1000 saloons Saloons the state on
an average take in daily $40 EACH Deduct Sundays and
holidays and the saloons sell liquor on approximately
300 days during the Four thousand saloons TAX
ng in $40 day each is $16O 600 in cash day pass
ing the bars of Colorado Three hundred days per year
is 300 times S6O O0o which $s 900 every year spent
in Colorado for booze in the saloons say nothing of the
volume sold in drug stores blind tigers and other dives
where beer costs ST. per bottle Mr. Consumer what
do you get for this fortyeght million doars
ach headache and all pieces The best YOU
get is the worst of it.
Mr. Merchant, business proposition you afford
allow this tremendous of cash to leak from your
business? You give the who buys your merchandise
return for his money You give him intrinsic value for cash
received What you sell has economic value. You af
ford to pension saloon keeper and bar tender in Colo
RADIO and then make several hundred per your
ment An uptodate merchant turns his stock of goods
from three to four times year Take the yeght mill
ions that the liquor drain from your business every
turn that capital often do the capital in
vested in business and make profit and the
of Colorado would not be about three times high the
taxes in Kansas Ours 81 80 thousand dollars the
100 per valuation Kansas 81 20 per thousand on
40 cent valuation You do not allow leakage like this
your business You would not be in business if you
to- If apply the business principles the
liquor interest do to mercantile business you will
strike the Colorado Business Mems Home Rule (Ruin)
League from the map of Colorado
If you had department in your business that los
ing annually much cash the liquor business los
ing the mercantile world of Colorado you would close that
department out for it would eat the profits of all the
other departments Statewide prohibition inure
legitimate business Why? Because it will take forty eight
million Of dollars out of the liquor business and distribute
into legitimate channels Are in legitimate business?
Then you will get your pro rata.
Why did Kansas send fifty million dollars to Wall Street
in 1907 and why not Missouri? Because Missouri spent
eighty millions of dollars for booze and had not fifty million
left that she could send Kansas had her booze money in
savings banks.
1t is simply of the you spend the less you
have. The you the you have for any pur
pose that may present itself.
Vote YES on the amendment on election day. Keep
that booze money at home and divide it among Yourselves
You will get your share of it,
These figures do take consideration the rs per
cent Of all crime which due BOOZE the thirty
five cent of paupersm the Is per of insanity
Take every bad account have books and you find
you can charge rs cent Of them to booze 1t is we'll
known fact that good live merchant in wet
move to dry town and obtain IS per cent larger line of
credit from his wholesale dealer Why They will tell that
collections easier and they do have give you
tons Therefore both you and they your capital
over oferner during the That profit for
you and them annually You entitled to this profit
why not claim it?
Vote "YES" on Amendment No. =.