Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-14

Spokane, and Denver, and what they
saw about the loss Of the revenue"
from liquor cussedness.
The 1917 budget in Seattle calls for
s4,ss4. 41sls, which is slss.e4s5s LESS than
was required in 1916 under the budget
made up in 1916 the last wet year. Only
$3.50 Of SO in taxes win be required for
municipal purposes as against $4.o4 last
year.
Huge gains in both clearings and tran
sactions were made by Seattle's 81 banks
in 1916 over 1915. Lacking half business
day Of completing the ca calendar year is sa
with $612. s8 $3.50 in 1915, according to the
Seattle Clearing House Association.
This is a gain Of $1H, SIS, 40 for the dry
year.
rometer Of industry and trade activity
are bank transactions. Lacking one and
half business days Of completing the
calendar year 1916. bank TRANSACTIONS
amounted to s1,s4s. ,6s1.72, as compared
1909, SO 523.O4 for 1916.
At the call Of December 81, 1915. Seattle
banks reported deposits or SShoioVIo.;si.
At the November H., 1916. call, deposits
were $lV(,lS4,lIo.oS. IiS 10 q 6e..i' W
$l9 OOo, 600 in 10a months. And the north
west has DONE NO WAR BUSINESS.
A gain of more than $32,0o0,00o in
deposits for 1916 over 1915 was shown
by 279 state banks and nine trust
companies in the state Of Washington
at the last call as Of November 18th
last, according to the official compila-
ton of State Bank Examiner w. E.
Hanon.
During March, 1915. the arrests for
drunkenness in Seattle were nearly
one thousand below the correspond
ing month of 1915.
During nine months of 1916 there
were only six suicides in Seattle OPP
posed to y in the first nine months Of
1915.
Figures from all over the state in
dictate similar splendid results of the
prohibition policy On July LIST, 1919,
the inmates of county prisons in
Washington numbered 594; after six
months of state prohibition the figure
had been reduced to 204
The Spokesman Review Of Spokane
declares that that city has saved
100000 during it's year Of prohibit
ton.
The array of statistics is so great
that we are using only fragmentary
excerpts. Read few paragraphs
from William D. Phifer of Denver:
DO you know that when Colorado
went dry we owed state warrants to
the amount of 100000? Now they are
all paid off. We have paid them off,
with interest, at the rate of $1,000
every day since the state went dry.
DO you know that the Denver banks
Increased their clearings more than
slO,OOO,O0O the first dry month? The
deposits in these banks have increased
more than a million and quarter each
month. The savings banks have re-
ceived more than 1000 new accounts.
opened by poor people who never had
a bank account before.
DO you know that the 463 Denver
saloon buildings are all occupied by
legitimate business?
do you know that people are NOV
ing into the dry states? The last wet
zeal Colorado's population just about
hcld it's own. The first dry year the
population of the states has increased
over $4,000. In June. 1916, 9os new
families came. In October, 947 new
families came. In September, 1888
new families came into the state to
make permanent homes. Most of these
newcomers came from the west states.
Missouri sent us the largest number OF
new families. California contributed
the next largest number"
And vet these monumental hypo-
critics who write for rum trust gold. go
on talking about 1.-The saloon, and the
revenue system pyramided upon it"