Evening star., 1917-01-16
Great Benefit to Denver.

adjustment or lQuOr was OF tHe great
est benefit, Mr.. Shoemaker asserted.
quoting George A. Carlson, governor
who said:
Two thousand and fifty new savings
accounts were opened in the Denver
For January, 1916, reports of eight
Denver banks show S575.000 increase
in deposits of January. 1915.
Denver bank clearnings for January,
1916. were sS.OOo.oOo more than for
January. 1915.
Pueblo bank deposits for January,
1916. were s27o,ooo more than for
January. 1915.
Pueblo savings deposits for January,
1915, were $1,000. In January, 1916,
they were $4,000.
The collections of Denver's largest
department store were 25 per cent more
for January. 1916, than for January,
1915.
The number of arrests for all causes
in Denver. January. 1915. was 1.212.
For all causes in January, 1916. arrests
numbered 525.
Mr.. Shoemaker cited statement of
John b. Lennon. treasurer of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in which he
said:
The saloon keeps more people out of
work all the time than prohibition
would throw out of work few days
until they got other positions"
The purpose of the Trade Union is
to raise the standard of living. What
about the saloons? Is there man
who will say there is any influence
from the saloon except to lower the
standard and make men less manly
and women less womanly?"
From a Police Chief.
A. c. Cation. chief of police of Olympia.
Wash. Mr.. Shoemaker said, made a
statement of the conditions in his home
city which probably applies to eyery
place that has forced out the saloon
and adopted the standard of the Ieaeue
as follows:
The dry law has worked wonders in
the Capital city. Arrests are yerv few
ana yet every drunken person is ar
rested, whereas formerly only the dis
orderly ones were arrested. The streets
are clear of loafers and night 10 no
longer made hideous by their presence,
Many men who voted wet are con-
vinced Of the value of the dry law and
cannot be induced to vote wet again.
Many grocers' accounts that were
marked N c. have been paid. Men are
putting their money In the banks and
paying their bills by check who never
before knew what 1t was to have a
bank account and carry a check book"
Less Crime; More Prosperity.
The effect OF prohibition in Wash
ington," said Mr.. Shoemaker, will be
to reduce crime, increase prosperity
and make healthier people. Such are
the results in many other cities, and
there is every reason to believe that
Washington will go far ahead of them
conditions here being more favorable to
prohibition than in many other cities.
"All branches of business will i'm
prove" he added, land taxes will not
increase. Cost of maintaining institu-
tions in which many victims of drink
are cared for will be greatly reduced
and the city will be able to get along
with one police Judge 1t might be pos
sible to reduce the police force, al
though it might not be well to reduce II.
Dry Washington" he stated. will
mean an untold decrease In the number
of applicants for charity. Such appeals
will be almost obliterated. and it will
not be necessary for persons to open
their pockets for such purposes to the
extent that they have been called upon
in the past.
"It will be the means of solving many
of the uplift problems" he concluded,
"and settle the alley question"