The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-20
SHOWS PROSPERITY
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following statistics for Virginia:
"Firty- seven per cent pauperism
cost sIs3,34l.07.
"Thirty-five per cent insanitay, etc,
cost s204. $4,000.
"Eighty-five per cent crime cost
45S.231.35.
Total cost chargeable to liquor
traffic ss25,96332.
Revenue received from liquor traf-
fic, including dispensaries, etc. pages
56,~T5 and 1913, auditors report $685.
s1503.
Loss on account of liquor traffic
s2S7.14S29.
$50 that instead Of being a source
of revenue, the liquor business costs
the Commonwealth s2S7, 70 per
annum. Bear in mind, also that this
does not take into account untold SUI
ferings misery and woe which are be-
yond computation.
IF the anti prohibitionist could
prove the absurd proposition that the
liquor business causes no pauperism,
insanity or crime, and that statewide
prohibition would lose without COM
pensation to the State all the revenues
derived from the liquor business ana
that taxes would have to be raised,
| 1t would amount to only fraction
over tweuty-six cents per capita Who
would sell his vote for twenty-six
cents? No dry city. town or county
in Virginia has increased Its rate of
taxation simply because 1t abolished
the saloon and no State in the Union
has done so. T. The tax rate in Viz
gnia has been -thirty-five per cent
since the new constitution went into
effect In 1903. Most Of the State has
gone dry during that time and our
revenues have steadily increased Bear
in mind also. that the dry territory
/ bears it's part of tfse criminal eX-
penses of the wet cities.
Mention has been made Of North
I Carolina as If the Old North State
were suffering financially because Of
prohibition. Governor Craig writes
under his own signature: AS to the
effect of prohibition upon the finances
Of North Carolina, / will say that the
total revenues from all sources during
the wear 1905. the last year during
which whskey was sold under license
were $685. During the year
1918, the last year under prohibition.
the total receipts from all sources were
"a 2AT 900. In 1908 the average term
of the public schools in North Caro-
lima was barely four months. This
year many counties in the state Will
have full six months term. and in
some counties 1t will be much mora
North Carolina has never known in all
4 nef history q reTIbu u sItaAft pm
perity than that through which she
has passed since prohibition was
adopted Real estate in all the cities
and larger towns has greatly enhanced
In value, and every line of business
has prospered.'
Salisbury was the strongest whis-
key city In North Carolina II pro-
hibition hurts the city Salisbury would
be dead and buried. fsut what are the
facts9 The total deposits In all the
banks Of Salisbury on May u, 19as'
were sg754925a. On nsafch 4, 1914. the
a++.14+.4ta tatalel s1Sl4144.1T. There has
been gain under prohibition Of about
SIS per cent in bank deposits O. the
worst whiskay ridden town In NORTH
Carolina. No. we do not hear any n
nancial wall coming from North Caro-
lima. But we did hear an appeal from
Richmond for North Carolina to come
TO her help In the fight for federal
reserve bank. About ths only way In
which North Carolina could be I'M
proved would he by prohibition in VII
etnia, thus removing tAe nuisance
further from her border,