Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-09-29

necessary to get a permit stating the
amount of liquor which one wants
to buy Under this proposed bill any
person might buy for his own con.
sumption any quantity. It's passage
will mean that brewery wagons will
drive through our residence districts
delivering beer from house to house
1t will mean that wagons may drive
along any road in the state, in the
country districts, furnishing beer to
farm houses. 1t will mean that places
will spring up where illegal sales OF
the beer thus easily obtained will GO
on, which will be even worse than
legalized saloons under police regu-
latons
Before the adoption of initiative
No. 3, under which the state went
dry two years ago, it was argued by
J many business men that it would
ruin business. Has the state been
injured? I believe that if we look
back over the last few months we
will find a marked Improvement in
bank deposits On November 10,
. 1915, the aggregate deposits in the
state were 100000, 900. On June
! 30, 1916, they were 1924, 900;
an increase of $1S,O00.000. The fig
ures show marked increase in to-
! talc of Sovin oc accounts
Il have had prepared figures on
/ the prisoners received into the states
penal institutions. At Walla Walla,
in the first eight months of 1915,
/ there were received PIT. In the cor
/ responding eight months of this year
! there were 1872. At the reformatory,
where the boys and younger men are
sent, there were received, in the first
eight months of 1915, 222 prisoners,
while in the corresponding eight
months of 1916 there were but 124.
81 am not going to claim that the
/ change is entirely due to the fact
that we have eliminated the saloon
from the state; but l am sure I have
/ the right to claim that the great de-
/ crease is indirectly due to it,
Most of those sent to prison in
/ the first three months of each year
are arrested during the preceding
! year. If we make our comparison of
! the months from April to August, in
elusive, of 1915 and 1916, eliminat-
! ing the first three months of each
/ year, the contrast will be even great
er. In the four months April to Au-
gust, 1915, there were received at
Walla Walla 176 prisoners; in the
same period of 1916 there were but
! 81, less than half. At the refOrma-
tory, in that period of 1915, there
were entered 1873 prisoners; in the
corresponding five months of 1916
the figure was but ga, again less
than half.
ANY law that will reduce the
number in our state penal institu-
tons is good for the state at large.
Every man in the penitentiary and
the reformatory is a liability to the
state and to society, while we have
the right to presume that, outside,
he is earning his living and is an
asset.
The county and city jails of the
state with the exception of the two
small counties of Douglas and JeffeT-
son, on which l did not obtain fig
ures, had on July /, 1915, 594 pris-
oners. On July l of this year they
contained but 204. Again the story
is told of the difference the law has
made.
ut is stated that during June, in
Seattle, permits were issued for the
importation of liquor worth between
! 100000 and $40, The propon-
ents of the brewers bill would keep
this money in the state. But look at
the figures for last year. In the
same month of 1915 over 81 900, 900
worth of liquor was purchased there
| think that we will agree that the
law that reduces the expenditure in
one county for liquor from more than
$1,OOO,OOO to $4,000 or $4,000 is
good thing.
But the greatest argument in ia
vor of continuing Washington dry is
the benefit of the people. The pro-
hibition of the sale of liquor makes
for better and a higher type of
citizen-for greater efficiency, for
intoxicating liquor never increased
the efficiency of any man"
DO FARMERS OWE
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