Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-02-08

and lost working time.
These are but suggestions of the eco
nomlc benefits. In the social aspect the
change will UNNECESSARILY reduce the evils
OF vice, crime, illiteracy, insanity, prevent
able disease, and poverty It will lower
the cost to the community Of private and
public charity, policing and court admin
lstration, the upkeep of jails, almshouses
and asylums. It will do more than any
other one thing to eradicate the slum from
the cities and rural districts. It will re-
move the deadliest source of disease, the ef
tects OF which are transmitted from genera
ton to generation, and thus will make for
rising standard Of national health.
1T will have radically beneficial effect
in politics, especially in the large cities,
where the saloon and the liquor vote have
been the mainstays Of machine despotism and
corruption. And in States like Pennsyl-
vanla it will emancipate the judiciary from
a function which not only was degrading to
the courts, but which led to the selection of
men for the bench because of their advocacy
Of the traffic.
beyond all these things there will be
gains not to be computed in the liberation
to new life of moral and spiritual forces
and faculties which have been benumbed by
the crushing weight Of this evil and the
hopeless struggle against it. And who shall
measure the value it will bring in hope
and happiness to homes that have been
Swallowed by want and despair"
Analysing the situation from business
viewpoint for the Philadelphia Public Led
on the credit side Of the account:
''The billion dollars invested in distilleries
and breweries and the additional billion paid
by them and the saloon-keepers in taxes
and license fees and rents came from the
nickels and dimes and quarters and dollars
passed over the bar for drinks.
''In. bookkeeping sense those things bal
ance.
If billion dollars a year more in taxes
must be paid by the public to offset the
revenue received in 1918 fro mliquor by
Federal, State, and city governments, it will
60 direct instead of through the channel of
saloon, brewery or distillery. X
I'm various parts Of the country prohi-
bition appealed more to the people in an
economic way than from the moral side
cit is the testimony Of large employers
in places where liquor is sold that Monday
is the poorest day Of the week in production.
This they ascribe to overindulgence in
LIQUOR on Saturday night and Sunday by
those of their workers who drink too much.
"Earnest men are giving consideration to
the question of substitute for the saloon.
They find it difficult Of solution.
"The head of the Anti-Saloon League
says the matter will be solved without the
aid of sociological students. He declares
the substitute for the saloon has been fall
ure heretofore because the saloon had more
attraction. With the lig attraction re-
moved. he believes Business men, as a matter
of business, will evolve ways of catering to
the great body of men who seek entertain
ment and sociability without philanthroplc
trimmings
Enthusiastically the sober man is better
producer than the tipping man.
production is wealth.
"Most of the money that has bene spent
for liquor has been waste, direct and in
direct.
"The same money spent in better living,
in better furnishings, in better clothing, IN
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