El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-23
FL Paso's annual booze bill
would In ten years transform

THAT Fl Paso's annual booze bill
would IN ten years transform
the city and county into a
Utopia was the substance Of an eco
monte argument for prohibition ad-
vsuced by Rev. P. r. Knlckerbocker
At prohibition rally Tuesday night
at Odd Fellows hall that he consid-
cred unanswerable.
Tt IS estimated" said Rev. Afr.
Rnickerbocker. that we spend IS, OOo,-
900 for booze in Fl Paso county each
year This allows less than $50 per
day gross sales for each saloon, while
they sell much more than that on the
average. IN ten years this could
have built two free county tuberculo-
SIS hospitals at 100000 each, giving
each hospital 500, coo per year for ex-
penses, 100000; give the county
slesyUO per year for public health
WORK 100000; employ 100 public
nurses at $500 eaGh for ten years.
elzs,Vgos double the public school
1und for ten years, $4,000 GOO; build
100 rural schools at $4,000 each, $780,
GOO build five rural agricultural high
SCHOOLS at $4,000 each. S250,000; build
200 miles Of roads, $4,000 a mile
sz,oO0s0O0- drain the entire upper and
-tH q Hd--E- 2 anu MAKE II blossom
like a rose. estimated at $4,000 900:
build high line canal, which would
redeem multiplied acres of land and
nelp make FL PasO a city Of half mill
lion, estimated cost with a cement
lining, $2,50o.00o: total. s13.47O,O0
we should still have Of our $50
100000, sl6,55o,000, which would give
every voter in the city Of FL Paso the
sum Of $1,000 to buy a home, and
every body would be as happy as a
June bug tumbled into a molasses
pot Why waste all this on booze2"
Denver's Mayor Converted.
As exhibit number two against
booze, Rev. Mr.. Knickerbocker intro
duced the following letter from Rob-
ert W Speer. mayor Of Denver, Colo:
I voted against prohibition when
the question was before the people
Yet. II the question were submitted
again I would vote for IL The sue
cess Of no city depends upon the sale
OF llquor, and Denver today is better
off than it was when saloons were
running The sun IS now shining in
many homes where Eloom and fear
formerly shut II out.
a majority Of our business men |
were opposed TO prohibition for bust 1
ness reasons, but I feel certain that i
after a years trial q large majority 1
have changed their views and would }
today vote for It"
says More @Pepy Needed.
Emphasizing the moral side of the I
question. the speaker said il was too
late 10 help the poor after the saloon I
had made them poor. hut that the I
time 10 help them was before the sa- i
loon inflicted its terrors on them /
That more pep" is ueededin the cam 4
pzign and that every advocate Of pro-
hibition should 90 after votes was his
organizing a committee that would 90 /
out and and find how every voter /
stands, Just as Tammany Hall does,
he said.
That the saloon produces rent signs
and that prohibition will mean that
shoes and groceries for his family was
the telling argument. Rev. Mr.. Knick-
erbocker thought He cited the case
Of q poor family in Bowling Green.
Ky, which bought a half pint of milk
daily before prohibition came and in
creased Il TO quart when the head
OF the family was compelled TO forego
liquor.
Must Back Men at War.
II IS the patriotic duty Of Americans
20 be 100 percent efficient in back
ing the men in the trenches and ban
ming booze IS part OF the means Of ac-
complishing this end. This was the
substance Of talk by Zach L Cobb,
who spoke in part. as follows:
Prohibition is not a partisan ques- :
ton When local option was voted for
Washington City and the president
signed the bill, he endorsed prohibi-
ton, and Roosevelt. Republican lead
sr. also has sided with that cause 1t
is not a political partisan question.
-fen- Now our boys in France are en-
titled TO 700 percent support by US at ]
home, and a nation drinking liquor is ,
OF 100 percent efficient.
Says It's Useless Waste.
IF every saloon is closed, the pow :
sr Of the American nation TO produce
and 70 back up our men abroad will :
be increased by a great margin. So, +
feel that it IS in the cause Of pa
triotism that the American people !
should be made free from the liquor
la5it In carrying the saloon on her
back America is carrying a handf- !
sap that may be the deciding balance
victory and defeat. We at !
home are called on 70 remove every I
handicap from Americas shoulders. | /
The one utterly useless waste today Z
s liquor" Z
State Prohibition Soez.
Mr.. Cobb urged voters not to be ]
confused and 10 vote both city and I
,Ounty dry. He said the liquor inter q
ssts, the kaisers ally in this country S