Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-07-24
AGAINST INITIATIVE
MEASURE NO. 5
Continued from page 81
by T.. BR.AE\ERD.

on lne evils OF alcOhOliSm LOmbrOSC
on Crime, Little Brown & Co., pub.
fishers. 1912, chapter H., says prohi.
bltory laws that their lack of success
is due especially to the fact that nc
repressive law can accomplish its pur-
pose when it runs counter to our in
stlncts. Now among these instincts
rs that desire for psychic stimulation
such as one may get from wine, {.
need which increases with the pro-
gress of civilization" Saleeby on
Worry, N. Y, F. A. Stokes Company,
in chapter on worry, drugs and drink,
calls alcohol "a racial poison" but
says sit is certain beyond certainty
that neither denunciation nor warn
ing, nor legislation, nor any other
measure whatever will wean mankind
as a whole from it's addiction to al
cohol." Prof. Munsterberg, the Har-
ward psychologist, in McClure's maya
zine says: 'To say that certain evils
come from a certain source suggests
only to fools the hasty humiliation OF
the source before studying whether
greater evils might not result from
its destruction, and without asking
whether the evils might not be re-
duced, and the good from the same
resource remain untouched anG u
tempered with" Krafft-Ebing, Kier-
nan, Spitzka and other aliensts show
that intolerance of alcohol is an ex-
preston of degeneracy. "Such total
abstainers," says D. E. S. Talbot in
his book on Degeneracy. "1eave de-
generate offspring in which degener-
acy assumes the type of excess in al
cohol as well as even lower phases"
Calls Prohibition Uneconomic.
Prohibition is uneconomic. FEEDER
al income tax estimates for 1914.
100000. Estimated tax receipts
from liquors, 1928, 100000. Under
nationwide prohibition to meet sucn
a deficit $25 income tax would be-
come $62.50. With statewide pro-
hibition this states taxes will in
crease exactly as the nations wouic.
Loss of revente in one way must De
made up in another. Will the already
overburdened submit? Wherever pro-
hibition exists taxes have had to be
increased without corresponding ben
Gifts. In 1906 in forty-one states the
average tax rate on 500 was in 343
prohibition towns 1884 as agains:
$1.5S in SAG license towns. Taxes
were 81 per cent higher in the prohi-
bition towns. Do you want your taxes
increased 81 per cent? The Calves
ton News says special taxes had to
levied in Texas prohibition towns to
offset the loss of liquor license reve-
nue.. In twenty-nine Kansas towns
the tax rate has been as high. as $3.50
per 800.
Prohibiting the manufacturing of
beer in this state affects sixty-one
trades and unions. Breweries of Brit
ish Columbia, Oregon, Idaho and any
other state can and will ship into
every corner of the state, and into
present dry areas, their product at
expense of Washington capital, labor
and farmers. Prohibitionists argue
beer production is not useful" This
argument would prohibit every
church picnic, movie, newspaper
and things not made for food, cloth
ing and shelter. Under civilization,
mans pleasures, esthetic, intellectual
and social, are as important to him az
are bare utilities. 1t should bear
weight on the economic side that
Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive;
William Howard Taft, Republican,
and Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, are
not prohibitionists.
Prohibitions impracticability is not
a question for assertion, but fact. Any
one can secure some official facts by
writing to the commissioner Of inter
nal revenue and asking If it is not
true that nearly one-third of the gov
ernment's Spanish war revenue was
raised by the beer tax and that with
out it the government would have
been badly crippled, or else all taxes
increased third; also, If Kansas, pet
prohibition state, has not a greater
number of federal liquor licenses in
proportion to population than almost
any other state. AS the mayor of
prohibition Nashville in the statement
to Oregon in 1910 said: "If you wan,
your tax rate increased, your revenue
reduced, real estate values decreased
and business in general hampered
without promoting temperance, nor
atty or reducing the amount OF H.