The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-16
Sioux City Business Man CompIi-
rnents The Advertiser On
Its Fight Against Booze
IOWA COMMUNITY MAKES
GIGANTIC STRIDES FORWARD.
Webb Kenyon Law Aids State
Administrators In Blocking
Liquor Dealers Plans

The campaign for prohibition in Ha.
waii was heartily endorsed Yesterday
by @. II. Cummings, secretary Of the
Sioux City Seed Company and one of
the leading business men of the Iowa
city, who is visiting Honolulu. Mr..
Cummings called at The Advertiser
Office yesterday afternoon to eompli.
ment this paper on the stand it is TAX.
ing, for prohibition.
Prohibition is working in Iowa, ,,
Mr.. Cummings said. at went into Of.
feet Janarry !, 1915, and marked
changes for the betterment of the State
have resulted. so beneficial have been
the effects that many big business men
Of the State who were formerly opposed
to prohibition are now heartily in
favor OF it.
"The, action Of the Supreme Court Of
the United States in upholding the
validity of the Webb. KENYON Law,
which makes effective State lews that
forbid the transportation of liquor into
dry territory, has had the effect Of
making Iowa virtually bone dry
Recently the Sioux City Transpor.
tation Company, which has been i'm.
porting liquor into Sioux City from
Jackson, Nebraska, and Jefferson.
South Dakota, which are Just across the
State lines from Sioux City, closed its
doors and went out of business. Two
other companies refused to accept
liquor consignments for Iowa territory.
Blind Piggers Convicted
1.-THE arrest and conviction of sew.
eral persons charged with bringing
liquor into Sioux City from Nebraska
and South Dakota taught them that the
authorities meant business and that
punishment would follow violation of
the law.
:" Since prohibition went into effect
business in Sioux City has shown n re-
markable gain. On January /, 1916,
when the law, became operative, fifty
buildings that were occupied by sa.
looms and other liquor houses became
empty. Today every one of those
buildings is occupied, and without ex.
ception by firms employing more PEG.
pie than the saloons formerly employed.
1.-TWO of the buildings that formerly
were occupied by saloons are today oc
cupied by new banks that were started
after the prohibition law went into eff.
feet. The people of Sioux City began
TO have more money to deposit as seon
as liquor was driven out, and the re
suit was that within three months after
the law became effective three new
banks we're started. ",..
Building Increased 49,. 49,.
'tBut a still more significant indica
ton of the effects of prohibition was
the big increase in building in Sioux
City last year over 1915. The increase
amounted to fifty-one per cent.
"In 1915 the value of buildings con.
stTucted in Sioux City was $2,050,4l7,
while 1916 returns show the value TO be
$4,000, 305. Des Moines made build
ing gain of eighty-one per cent. Dav-
export returned an increase of ten per
cent. The buildings constructed in
Davenport in 1918 amounted to 1922.
49S, while the mark last year was
$l,Ol7, 800. At Cedar Rapids the total
building done in 1918 amounted to
Fl 100000, while last year it was
81 ,7S4,00O, an increase of one per
cent"
T..