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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
Great Industries
That Must Be DESTROYED.

Loss of billions of dollars In assets and In
annual business 20 barrel and stave manufac.
turers lumber men. bottle makers, box MAX
ers. grain dealers printers. auto truck manu-
facturers and other collateral lines of business.
Loss of millions Of dollars annually to lnsur-
ance men in premiums. Loss OF millions to
building constructors etc. 1t is estimated now
that millions Of dollars of improvements by
distillers. brewers, wholesale and retail dealers
are being held in allegiance as the result OF the
uncertainty about the future OF their business.
this failure to invest capital in hand being one
OF the factors in the slow recovery from the
general business depression
Among the industries not ordinarily asso-
ciated in the public mind with the liquor In
dustry that would be disastrousy affected are
the following:
Filter builders, manufacturers and dealers in
stave timber for barrels producers Of tank
timber for watts, yeast makers. manufacturers
of grinding machinery for grinding grain, en-
blowers Of every conceivable type Of artisan.
such as iron and copper workers, brickayers.
cement workers. carpenters, roofers. pipeft.
ters engine builders. coopers. blacksmiths.
wagon makers. automobile makers, box and
case makers, tag printers label makers, lithog.
raphers, sign makers, engravers. makers OF
altering materials, bung and strap makers, glue
mauufa cturers, producers OF altering agents.
smokestack and boiler makers, furnace build.
ers men in the cork industry, jug, bottle and
glassware makers, hoop and tank iron men.
makers Of steel grantized tanks makers OF
oaper and carton material. makers of bottle
nps and wiring
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
ssVoc - Says Joseph Debar, Secretary of the
I'D, National Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Association of America, Who Declares that the
Wiping Out of the Country's Liquor Industry Will
Cuuse the Most Disastrous Panic in All History.

Loss OF customers for hundreds Of millions
annually now received for corn. barley. hops
rice, wheat grapes, apples, peaches. cherries.
molasses and other farm products now utilized
by distillers brewers and wine makers.
Loss of jobs by some $4,000 salaried en-
ployes, some $4,000 travelling statesmen, some
$4,000 wage earners in manufacturing and
wholesale liquor establishments, and loss OF
places by 101 ,234 bartenders, a grand total OF
suvvgo employes making ooo n NV upon 6
100, 600 people Of the country. All of these
figures, with the exception Of the estimate as
to travelling statesmen, are from the United
salary and wages of the employees Of the liquor
manufacturing plants alone in 1909 Is given by
the census over s73,o00,o00 year.
Loss in addition to this to farm laborers,
to the census for 1909, farm laborers' wages
averaged 11.SS per cent Of total value OF crops
produced. Applying this ratio to $113,513,s71
worth of farm products used by breweries and
distileries in 1913, the total payment for farm
labor Of products used in these industries was
over s13o0O,ooO, sufficient for the EN-
ployn1ent OF nearly $4,000 persons for SIX
months. at an average wage of $40 month.
Loss OF millions of dollars annually in wages
to barrel and stave makers. bottle makers.
printers and employees in other collateral lines
OF business drawing a large volume OF their
work from the liquor industry and industries
dependent upon it.
Loss of $23OO000 900 annually in internal rev.
enue and over SIS 900 in customs revenue,
q grand total OF nearly $3.50 ,OOO,0 900, over one
third Of the total annual income from all
sources
Necessity Of raising this vast by taxa
ton in other directions. The difficulty II this
will be apparent to all who recall the stress
attendant upon the imposition short time
back of a 100000 900 tax.
Necessity for a vast army Of United States
officials to enforce the nationwide prohibition
law in every State and every local community
within the countrys bounds. This will also
entail the necessity of raising a great sum by
taxation in addition to that raise! replace
the internal revenue and customs revenue lost
by abol' ching the liquor industry.
Loss to -.tsAas Of many millions; to counties
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
By Rev. Charles Sickle

THE argument that the abolition OF the
liquor traffic will create financial
panic Is based entirely upon the absurd
proposition that If the liquor dealers fail to
get the money now spent for beer and wh1s-
key Nobody else will get it.
1t is assumed that If a man doesn't spend a
dollar for booze. he will throw that dollar into
the sewer or into some kind of bottomless
pit, instead Of using it to purchase some other
commodity, which will do good instead OF harm.
which will have permanent value, and which
Will give the workingmen OF the country more
work. more wages and greater prosperity every
way than II the same amount of money were
spent for beer and whiskey.
Every workingman knows that we are not
suffering from over-production, but from under.
consumption. He is painfully conscious OF the
fact that he doesn't live well he should
IN comparison with others who do not work as
family the benefits which they deserve. There.
fore. it will not injure him particularly II the
brewery and distillery owners were to put
their brains and what is left of their capital"
when the liquor business is destroyed into the
production of materials which will give him
more of the comforts of life here and now, and
less Of its torments both here and hereafter.
AS for the poor farmer" who would suffer
SO grievously, according to the defender of the
saloon. because the brewers and distillers
would fail to buy his grain and grapes his ap'
pies and cherries-there is no fear that he will
buy fewer automobiles and less farm machin.
cry, and all the other modern conveniences
WHICH ne no" enjoys, ocCdube SoIneuouy eiSe
will buy his apples and cherries. his grain and
grapes-besides, economists and farm experts
are now afraid that the American farmer
will soon be unable to raise enough grain to
adequately supply this country.
Regarding the railroad man who would no
longer handle the "2.5 per cent Of the total
traffic Of all manufacturing industries Of the
country" which the liquor business fur
nishes-nobody doubts for a single moment
that the railroad man will get much bust.
ness and much money from the transfer OF
a given amount of grain. whether that grain
is shipped to brewer a baker. AS for the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
The Liquor Workers
Will Get Better Jobs.

Attention has been called to the fact thai
West Virginia will have deficit this year O.
about 100000, due to Statewide pronlOilion;
which amount it is claimed Will De ANNUALLY
lost in revenues from the liquor tranlc MT.
Debar does not mention the fact that IN the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1913, When tue
State was collecting it's internal revenue TAX.
there was a deficit of $48O,OOo, ana on June oO'
1914, there was deficit of $3ooooo Inc alI.
fculty with the last Legislature was not that
1t was unable to find way to raise fund 10
carry on the work of the various State depart
ments, but that 1t was unwilling, LOT poiitlcai
reasons, to tax the great corporations OF the
State their fair share Of the burden OF taxation.
It Is inevitable that when politicians fall to
make provision Of any kind for denclt ttere
will be temporary embarrassment 10 inc
State; but in spite of this handicap, which IS
the result of fight that has been going on for
years. and with full knowledge of what would
happen so far as the loss Of internal revenue
was concerned, the citizens OF the state voted
by majority Of nearly 100000 in favor OF
Statewide prohibition.
Reference is made to the large amount OK
money paid in the form Of internal revenue tax
by the liquor industry for the privilege OF
carrying on its business. If it could be said
that this business resulted only in good first
to those who are engaged in 1t, and, second, to
those who are consumers Of liquor the millions
OF dollars which paid in the form OF a tax
might be regarded as a blessing. But one can.
not discuss this question fairly without refer.
ring to the cost and the burden of the liquor
business upon the State. because 1t Is compelled
to maintain police departments, penitentiaries.
asylums of various kinds and other institu.
tons to take care of the victims of alcohol.
1t is not possible to state specifically what
the liquor industry costs the State this
count. but 1t has been said by reliable author.
flies that liquor is responsible in this country
for rs per cent Of the poverty, - per cent of
the divorces. Is per cent of the insanity. 81
per cent Of the pauperfsm, 45 per cent of the
child desertion and so per cent of the crime.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
The Nations Annual Drink Bill Is
Greater Than the Assessed Valu-
alton of All the Real Estate
in the City of Philadelphia.

transportation of the finished product as we'll
as the raw materials which the liquor in
dustry now furnishes, other industries which
would benefit through the transfer Of trade
from liquor to some other commodity would I'm.
doubted1y supply much business for the
railroad man as the brewers and distillers do.
slavery abolished. there was just as much
work to be done as before. But when the
liquor business is abolished there will be more
work than before-only the work will be dit.
ferent.
1t must not be assumed that were the liquor
business abolished every dollar now invested
in 1t would be lost. Land values would remain
the same. and most of the buildings and much
OF the machinery could be used for other kinds
OF industry without serious depreciation in
value.
fifth in Importance in the United States. Here
some figures showing its relative. import.
ance as compared with all other industries.
the figures being taken from the Bulletin Of
Statistics on Manufactures, 1910:
Industries. Industry daatr
Workers (numoer). 6,Sls.o4s 1920
Wages paid .......$3. 427 ,03S, 900 $45.2 900
Cost of materials. .12,141. 791 900 1879, $4,000
Capital invested . IS, 42S, 100000 771,516,00C
1t will be noted that the liquor industry en-.
ploys only about per cent of the WORKERS
IN the manufacturing Industries.
Taking five leading industries in this coun.
try-namely. textiles and its finished products,
iron and steel and their products. lumber and
its manufactures, leather and it's finished prod.
ucts. and paper and printing and comparing
them with the liquor business Oncluding the
mailing industry with regard to the number
of wage-earners employed. capital invested and
wages paid we arrive at some interesting con.
illusions. Based upon the figures found in the
Abstract OF Statistics Of Manufacture, We dis
cover that the number Of wage-earners for
each one million dollars invested in each Of
these industries. was as follows: Liquor. IT:
Textiles 57S: Iron, 2S4: Lumber. 579; Leather,
469, and Paper, 367.
These figures prove that the textile industry
employs seven and one-half times as many
workers for each million dollars as does the
liquor industry; the iron industry nearly four
times as many: lumber seven and one-half
times many; leather six times many. and
paper five times as many
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
some of the 100000 Workers Who
Would Be Thrown Out of Employ
ment by the Abolition of the
Liquor Traffic.

Of other millions, and to incorporated places
having population of 1850 and over. of $751;.
s55,oo1. grand total running up into the hum
dreds of millions every year ia liquor license
and tax receipts.
Greater burden on direct taxation to fall
upon all the population instead Of upon those
who voluntarily pay the tax indirectly
when they see fit to purchase liquors.
How many banks would be forced to the
wall along with the crash in ether directions
man would undertake to say. How many
millions of unemployed would Walk the streets
for months and possibly years there is no way
or figuring
Yet to the average Prohibtionist speakers
all this is as nothing. With the greatest non.
chalance they put down on paper ways in
which the revenue could be raised that would
be lost by the abolishing of liquor
They ignore the fact that the raising of tho
revenue for a single State to take the place Of
revenues lost by abolition of the liquor Dus
ness is a task beyond the best minds of States
like West Virginia. for instance, where an ex.
ira legislative session has failed to devise q
way of replacing 100000 annually lost in rev.
enues, due to Statewide prohibition.
They ignore the fact that some States SO
largely dependent upon the liquor industry
and some States are so vitality interested in It,
that almost total paralysis would ensue In
those sections if the liquor industry was wiped
out. Take the case of Kentucky, for instance.
where in 1913 the products Of distilleries in
bonded warehouses paid one-third more taxes
than all the stocks of merchandise in the
State more than twice much as all the
horses Of all kinds in the State; nearly three
times much all the mules, jacks and ten.
MES in the State; more than three times as
much all the cattle of all kinds in the State.
This has been paid. mind you, by the prod
ucts of distilleries in bonded warehouses alone.
and does not take into consideration the as
sessed value of distilleries. the bonded ware
houses themselves. real estate nor any per-
sonalty of any kind belonging to owners OF
distilleries, nor the value Of breweries and
realty and personally connected Herewith
This brief statement will show any thinking
man just how great a calamity nationwide
prohibition would be in Kentucky. Nor Is Ken.
lucky alone in this respect. The blow would
fall elsewhere with the greatest severity.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
Difference ..4so,7s5 $1ss. 900 seo5. 1ss.ooo

II IS at once apparent that IL the 81 800 900
now spent for liquor we're to be spent Ior Drea sT
and clothing 1T WOULD GIVE EMfLO1 NM
TO NEARLY EIGHT TIMES AZ NM "
WORKERS, WHO WouL ,I =, CGLAE FINES N As
RECEIVE FIVE AND ONEf1AAr
MUCH WAGES. away
But this is not all. It would require Owe,
$500 900 900 worth Of additional raw ma.ei 10 a..
than the liquor industry now uses .na.
more than Ave times much raw mateI ). =.
And II this were to take place, Is II hCt ian
to say that the iron and copper workers. uns
smiths bricklayers. cement WORKERS. ndora
ters roofers pipe settlers. engine ners
cooners wagon workers. automoone man h;
nv and case makers, tag printers. laoei
makers photographers. sign makers. ene 20 NJ
and ali the other workers mentioned Wy -:
Debar would also find Jobs? For II wouiu , o
absurd to say that ons in these crafts
Fnf what about the bartender! What coz
.t;trtes a successful bartender? 1t is ms aoa.
ftv as a salesman. He Is gooo nllAe.' "a ~
nn1v Of strong drinks, but among men, anu ~. .uo
,ns: heer and whiskey he drinks the better par.
tnder he becomes-as the boss Ai"aSs
points out to him. man VINO 10 $50 IN
tender will make a good clerk or saie4 1s.h o.
practically any other kind OF business. ~. aeu
para It. reo1iires many more people 10 sen
q aoo 600 600 worth of bread and clotnlns 1a
T. Soes to sell. liquor of the same value. ar''
same argument applies to the sa.a n bonk.
nloyes-the travelling statesmen, NC .roun
Tbere still remain the bona-fde brewers anu
maltsters, the dstillers and reclneIs, mn sSt
occunations are peculiar to their industries. n.'
of whom, according to the census I|n;tad
there are fewer than $1,000 IN tne on 80
States It is undoubtedly true that TINS ifas'
80, ~ tho workers would be compelled to al
iust themselves to the changed econoilic eoI'
ditions But this does not necessarily mean
that they will either 80 adr1t or cause '"'o'
panic.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-07-17
Will a World Wide Cataclysm
Hollow National Prohibition?
s. xr. - Says Rev. Charles Sickle, Advocate of
4S09 Prohibition, Who Maintains That
Turning Into Other Channels the ST, 8OO,OOO,OO
Which We Now Spend Annually for Drink Would

Much has been said about the enormous sum
ratio OF wages PAL. the workers to the amount
OF capital invested in this business as com.
pared with each of the industries noted above'
Here are the figures:
Liquor. Sc per cent: textiles, 23.S per cent:
iron, 176 per cent; lumber. 271 per cent:
leather ,23.5 per cent and paper. 21.3 per cent
quick glance at these figures SHOWS now
little, comparatively, the labortng man gets OUT
of the large investments in the liquor business.
1t is almost impossible to state accurately
how much Is annually spent IN the united
States for intoxicating liquor AS stated, a
conservative figure is $500 100000. AS nearly
as can be estimated it is probably true that
we also spend $500, 100000 for bread and
clothing. What would happen if the liquor In
dustry should be destroyed. and the money now
spent for liquor should be spent for bread ana
clothing?
Following is a table prepared from hgures
obtained from the Statistical Abstract OF tne
United States for 1918, giving statistics for the
year 1909 for both groups of industries:
Number Cost Of Raw
of Wages Wages Material
Industry Farmers Paid. USED.
Bread and other
bakery prod Ann, m. A.
Clothing
(men'N ,..A.. $50 1os.277.ooo 2s7.515.ooo
(w 6nu,,> ~<ls 7s.6es,ooo 2os,7ss'ooo
.s3655 s244,1se, 900 s744.ss7. 900
Liquor industry 6292O 45,262'ooo 1SS'lS''ooo
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-04-01
EL EJERCITO AUSTRIACO
100000 bajas Ell eercito de prmera Inca desrufdo
Los nuevos reclutados

mlsmo tempo una clase de negocios que
Sc desarroll6 en- grande escala. Por
eJemplo, aqueLlos quienes los period
cos nombraban corresponsales de guerra
eran eximidos del servicio militar, 10
que di6 lugar a que los j6venes ricos
offecieran grandes su1nas de dinero q la
prensa austrofla por su nombramiento.
Algunos periodicos pobres han hecho,
en- efecto, un buen negocio en- este ra
mo, y tienen SUI cuerpo de corresponsa
les de guerra, que NADIA les cuesta, 8 que
hasta pagan los duefos de esos peri0-
dicos una cantidad mensual.
En- tales circunstancias es triste, ma
turalmente, ell espectaculo que presen-
tan la tercera y cuarta reclutas de mu-
chachos de II anos y hombres de IS,
pues ell examen medico esta limitado 4
dos preguntas, la una acerca de la tu-
bercuolsis y la otra acerca de miembros
lisiados. Las cuestiones de debilidad
f1sica, defectos de la vista, inhabilidad
general, facultades mentales, no sc to-
can nunca en- estos examenes. Sc exa-
minan los hombres por grupos de a
veinte y con Ell pretexto de que. no hay
tempo para un examen complete, todos
pasan de una vez de La sala de la recluta
/ Ia dol a1istamientO A cada unO Sc lie
dan "a horas para arreglar sls asuntos
civiles y hacer su testamento y luego Sc
les conduce al otro extreme del pals pa
ra ejercitarse.
Frente las casas de los Ayunta-
mientos de las escuelas pdblicas don
de ocurren estas cosas, las mujeres y los
nii1os Sc apostan, con las lagrimas en- los
oios. " ofrecen escenas indescriptibles.
Ell periodic de preparation de esos mu-
chachos honnbres de mayor edad no
pasa a veces de tres cuatro semanas,
pues esta muy aceptado el principle de
cue ell soldado aprende mas durante una
semana en- ell campo de batalla, que en-
seis meses en- los cuarteles. Pero la YER
dadera raz6n es, por supuesto, muy dl-
ferente Ell esfuerzo de las tropas en- el
frente era un terrible problema para las
autoridades militares. Las bajas eran
tan grandes en- la guerra y hab1a tai
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1915-04-01

Londres MARIO 7.-El corresponsal
del Morning POST en- Budapest env1a
la siguiente communication:
"Ya para hoy no existe el ejercito de
primera Inca compuesto de 100000
de hombres con ell cual comenzo Aus
tria Hungr1a la guerra. Estos siete
meses han costado a la monarqu1a cua-
tro veces mas hombres de los que Sc dice
ofcialmente. No son 100000 sino
4. 100000 los muertos, heridos y prisio-
neros: 100000 de los heridos han lido
volviendo gradualmente 4 campa1a, al
gunos de ellos sin haber convalecido 10
bastante. Por consiguiente, podemos
decir con seguridad que los primeros
dos millones de hombres Sc han acabado
va enteramente. Los nuevos refuerzos
tienen un valor militar relativamente
pequeno.
Sin embargo, ell espfritu del ejercito
no ha perdido de ning1n modo SUI ente-
reza, y puede esperarse de 81 muy buena
obra, pues la organization es perfecta:
aparte de que comienza faltar hom-
bres. Su 1nica esperanza es que los rl-
sos no estan en- mejores condlciones. Lo
que hubiere de cierto en- esa esperanza
hemos de verlo en- abril.
Actualmente ell ejercito austro-h1n-
garo, conando las fuerzas que estan en-
campa1a y en- preparation, consiste en-
unos 3.5OO.OOO a 100000 de hombres,
ese es ell l1mite de su poder militar
Como en- todas las instituciones que de-
Denden en- Austria -Hugr1a del Estado,
HAY gran corruption en- ell Ejercito. En-
donde quiera Sc We que ell peculado y las
infuencias personales son resortes para
eximir del servicio militar los ricos y
arist6cratas. En- Budapest abundan los
i6venes habiles en- exceso para llevar las
armas, que viven vida regocijada, 6 que
viaian como corersponsales de peri6di-
cos favorecidos por ell Gobierno. A me-
nudo son hijos de ricos banQueros, cuyos
padres contribuyen a los emprestitos de
guerra q condici6n de que sus hijos no
,sean llamados servir, y miles de otros
parasites.
'Cuando la guerra estall6, surgi6 al