New Britain herald., 1916-06-19

that number and with the increaseI license fees you get this year abouI $32,000 for the city from the hcense5 much the larger part of the increasS going to the state.
 "If that amount of money weTa divided among the people of tl1 city (according to the last censusz each one would get not quite seventJ three cents. If the amount had 8 be raised by taxation based on you grand list it would increase the tas rate a little less than eight-tenths E one mill.
 "The liquor dealers of the sta figure that the average license brina < it's holder about S6,700 a year. A E cording to that your sixty-five placs take in each year about s445. 5.500-8 just so much taken from other ling of business.
 According to last years repo8 about 56 per cent of your arrests we8 for drunkenness or for assault a5 breach of the peace. which are nessS ly always caused by drink. The cas were cared for by your court, and E
 
 in as far as it deals with such ma ters, is about $3,360.
 Your police department cost s5M 393 and undoubtedly if the city weN to get thoroughly sobered up yN could save at least one-quarter the police expense-an item of $1 598.
 "At least one-third of your $4H 794 spent for public charities was to drink-an item of s14,9S1.
 "The city's proportionate shsM (based on population) of the cou expense on account of the childreN home, jail and the liquor traffic 1 $14,54O, and not less than one-th bz of that is due to drink and the tr 8 ! fic-an item of $4,S17.
 You proportionate share in W state government in caring for 1 fectives, delinquents and depende1 1 is $75,994, and not less than one-tt 8 of that is due to drink,-an item s 1 $25, ,331.
 ] Tt is conservatively estimated t t@ drink causes a loss of not less 20 per cent. in business and indust # efficiency, According to the last x sus the value of your manufactu8 8 products alone in the year 1909 1 $22,O21,00O (and it must be m& greater now.) A twenty per c E loss of that amount Is an item N $4,404, 4,2O0.~ #s "%s"
 "Census statistics show that @ capital invested in liquor manu M tpre in Connecticut, as compared W the number of men employed bS8 | rriy tn four and a half times as many & if invested in other lines of manu M ture in Connecticut, as compared W other branches of the liquor traf Also statistics show that in the we have about $500 men in 8 branches of the liquor busine N about one and half times as n men as we have saloon licenses. % cordingly your 65 places mean employment of not less than min N seven men in all branches of
 traffic. If the capital involved M otherwise invested there would M jobs for 339 more men. If each e# ,, ed $500. the income in the city W l be $169.500 more than at prese l with all that more patro @S for the butcher, the baker and l candleStick maker-as we'll as 8 banker. The increased store r
 demanded would be more than
 used at present by the. saloons. 8
 Summing up these items of
 and cost, and subtracting the sun
 ceived from license fees, you find 2 net total annual drink bill of Z city to be $5,049,1 137, nearly all 8 which ~ paid and lost by those 8 drink the least liquor. $115, ,000 each person in the city.
 ITO be sure not all of this " 2 be saved by putting saloons ou the city. That would require a
 state and nation. But if you VI w
 put the saloons out that would
 to get dry state and nation, to VI S ends mighty forces and organiza1 are now working, with the slogar
 saloonless nation by nineteen tweI