Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-07-17
Lewis Heinrich, for the Brewers Interests,
Makes Reply to Official Argument of
the Anti-SdI0On LEAGUE
QUOTES STATISTICS TO PROVE POSITION
The Seattle Brewer Takes Up Wet and Dry
ISSne as to Existing Conditions in
Kansas and Quotes Authorities

ucational purposes. Kansas per cap
ita is $25.63, Washington $49.36, Ne
traska 2S45, Colorado $3.50, Oregon
S49.29, California $51.S7. .(See pages
11S and 119 of the Statistical Alb.
stract of the United States for 1922.
The state wide prohibition commit
tee in it's official argument in behalf
of Initiative Bill No. 8, gives only
one authority, Governor Hodges of
Kansas, and he is a rabid prohibition
ist,
In the answer the statistics given
are taken from the latest available
statistical reports of the census bu-
reau of the United States govern
ment, the highest authority in exist
ence, and from official state records.
This state is big enough to decide it's
own question without having to go
to the governor of Kansas for dicta-
tion. The citizens of the state of
Washington are invited to address
him for such verification. Governor
Hodges may therefore be called upon
to answer 35O,0O0 inquiries, the vot-
ing population of the state of Wash
ington. He could not possibly answer
more than 100 inquiries per day. It
is therefore evident that the answers
have been already prepared by the
Anti-saloon league.
A pamphlet used by the Anti-saloon
league and circulated throughout the
state, is evidence of the methods US
cd by the opposition. The man lab
eled the Finished Product" was
found after the entire state had been
secured and made drunk on liquor
bought and paid for and served to
him by the Antisaloon league. They
got him drunk and then took his pic
ture.
Initiative bill No. would destroy
taxable property in this state worth
more than $17,OOO,OOO; wipe out an
annual pay roll Of more than $S,00O,.
600; would destroy revenues and taxes
Of $2,600,OOO; destroy hop crop
sold last year for $1,320,0o0 and val.
uel this year at s1,SOO,OO0, an indus:'
try employing $4,000 people, an an.
nual malt and barley crop of 3,2OO,-
900 bushels, 100000 worth Of which
is used locally; depreciate the value
ne C1G nm 80 Hn~ L.
and $4,000 acres of hop lands, causing
q loss of more than $2,O00,000; would
lose to the state more than $2,00O,-
900 for 100000 barrels of beer brewed
here and sold in other states ami
countries; would lose to business $12,.
100000 now spent annually in trade
channels; and would throw $500 men
out of employment and deprive $4,000
other persons dependent on them for
their bread and butter.
Loss In Values.
The loss in values caused by such
a law would reach the stupendous to-
tai Of $43.000.000 in a single year.
This is not fight for or against
temperance. Temperance and prohi.
bition are not the same. Temperance
is self-enforced. Prohibition is force
applied by one set Of individuals to
or against another set. The question
at issue is not moral. for no attempt
is made by this bill to prevent the
use Of liquor. To the contrary. 1t is
under section 15, which
provides that every person Of legal
age may secure one half gallon OF
liquor or ~ quarts Of beer every 20
days.
To the individual the bill says:
"You may have all the liquor you want
but you must not spend your money
At home. You may have a case of
beer every 20 days. but it must not
be made by Washington labor from
Washington grown barley or hops in
q Washington brewery"
To the $500 men at work in the
liquor industry the prohibitionist
says: "You must find employment
in other lines. Go out and be bar
bers. carpenters. plumbers. teamsters.
walters, clerks. hod carriers and brick
layers" and this in a state whose
labor market is already seriously ov.
er.crowded.
Local Option Law
Washington has q local option law
today under which communities can
eliminate the saloon where such &C.
ton 10 favored by majority and this
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