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Show , -y . ,7, .'. . ." ,. . . . - ..... , . lED Y(M Wsrt Yot Ta&0 , . ' ' . v - y, SALT LAKE CITY'S REVENUES IN 1 91 0: From Taxes o . ..- o '. -. 1m7$ol 417 Ja) ' . : s : : j - Fromm Saloon Ifeoses $7tlBoB If You Vote "Pry" on Tuesday, You-Arc Voting $227,1 75.56 on Top of Your Taxes, for the Loss of the Saloon License Revenue Must Be Made Up by Taxation, Which Means an Increase of Twenty-Six Per Cent in Your Taxes. I J Can You Afford It? j , ' ' ' x '. . y J !E)(iiWifl these (CftPilfciiiislfSMyiere? ' II IITTTWi? 1711 AW ADr!!"!! a fnutleM effort to eradicate this evil. Commissioner Lane wag quoted ' PAflfX1 fJ T'I?II?(!CI,I? AAlLUufc 1W -ALUiillili ' only recenUy in the daily paper., having .tated that the. uppreH.uon of t rUllX III lLllllLMIjIj v one 'blind tiger' wa. aeemingly followed by the opening of wo more. I ' fTrom The Daily Hew. Birmingham, Alabama, Jan. 19, 1911.) - , V . rrom 8taff. John?on "" s a j v, j i a "The anti-wJoon enforcement bureau, after a careful investigation, Prohibition in Tennessee is such a success that the iuternal revenue Declaris the nresent condition, intolerable and farcical, and setting ..-,. " v , , ...... ' has gone on record that in old Birmingham alone there are over 1700 such collections have increased some $32,000. This is not wholly for the reason forth rividly hi. reon for no longer advocating the cause of proh.b.Uon, that Uncle Sam need, the money, but to kee him from dealing unceremo- " Jonea 0. Moore, who ha. bn elected a. ehairman of the local option com- , -tawM place, of busine... Imagine the number that must ex.st ,n the R fa aittee, issuea hi. first statement to the public Monday. entire county. At the time of the prohibition election there were 110 legal- doWnhe- t.urtain on the mj8erabIe fane' which is cursing the state in the ' Mr Moore's statement ring, with sincerity He give. facts"and fig- ' wed saloon, in Birmingham, which in the nearly four yearander af- name of temperance. No one is deceived thereby, not even those who urea J'proWwly JeffeLn county would be Utter off under a system tempted prohibition would have netted, the city', handsome revenue and v prayed for the best and wished that the state wide law. might produce urn w pro" wo uC j . , , ,. . . ' , a desert of aridity and cause men to forego the indulgence of their appetite of high licensed, well regulated saloon, than .he now under a prohi- gone a long way toward averting the pjeaent large deficit; ,n other words, into;icantg ,n Tenne8Se(Si M cverywhere else that such legislation ha8 bition that doe. not prohibit . , ' I even though no additional license, had been issued because of taking in baen enacted, officers of the law wink at it infraction. Ensley and other suburbs, the revenue from that source for the time would In Memphis the grand jury has returned some 200 indictments against Mr. Moore statement foUowaj ( have been ve lar e liquor dealers, not for vending the stuff, but for not having provided . " . "Birmingham, Ala , June 19, 1911. ve n very arge. . themselves with state and county license to do so. -Jn Knosville a state "To the Citiwn. of Jefferson County. "These fact, have demonstrated the futility of attempting to enforce wvenue Bgent Koes after the dealers for the tax in such case, provided, and "When the campaign was pending in this county in 1907 ,.n,n the Uw having for it. object the controlUng of the appetite, of men. Our he finds the busmess conducted in a rented" house with liquor question, I wa. an advocate of 'prohibition,' believing then that people rebel a, any dictation a. to what they sh.,1 or sh.U not eat, drink 1:? t'o co'eT7 mo" th TLtionof . ' the law could be enforced. r wer i , ' the amount that could and would be realized from a legalized saloon. In "Nearly four year.' experience and personal observation of the sys- "We r confronted not by a theory, but by hard facts, and it is wine xMhville and Chattanooga and Jackson the thirst joints are as wide open tern have convinced me and many other ardent prohibitionists that the to recognize the situation. In the meantime the state; county andi-ities and accommodating asif there wereo law on the subject. Nowhere in the .... .... . , .... v . ' ... . .. , state is it impossible to quench ono'. desire for a cold bottle, or even some- nlan i. an unqualified failure; that conditions, instead of being improved. are not -.only deprived of a badly needed revenue, but are at a heavy ex- , - - - thing that will bite when absorbed. have been made worse; that, whilo there were formerly infractions of the pense attempting to enforce a non--nforceablc law. The loss of this reve-v this is all the result of making a . politioal issue of a moral questiW. law., which were more readily subjsct to discovery and punUhment, there nne wou,d b phaerfuiiy accepted if the enforcement of prohibition were . It has always been so and it always will be. Some of the besUfriends the now exists open as well as secret violations, the extent of which is aP- but .. t upQn the counfy and citieg without any temperance cause has in the state realize the mistake and are ready and V " palling, and which, it seems to me, unless a change be made, will in time willing to rectify it for the sake of the- cause. But the politicians who lead possibly to anarchy. revenue whatever .. positively bad. - have found it a convenient pretext on which to ride into position, of honor . v v , . "In ray opinion, the dispensary will not cure the 'blind tiger' evil; which otherwise would "have been denied them on their merits; are calling . "The present conditions have already bred a disrespect of and eon- rru . v a . . ..... . . 'blind tigers' are now fastened upon us, and will remain with us under upon the, temperance forces to hold fast and stand firm- That is a shrewd tempt for this particular law, and has built up a freemasonry of perjurers . course for the politicians, but it-is poor policy for those who have a regard who protect and safeguard law violators, and a continuance of these con- dilnary system. I have, therefore, been forced to the conclusion that fjr pubHc lnoniU and want t0 we the majesty of the law vindicated. dition. will inevitably lead to a disregard of all other law. and author - high license and well regulated, open saloons, limited in number and op- The state wide act of two year, ago has set the temperance cause back ' . twenty year, in Tennessee. It i. travesty and a mockery a. a remedy ity. eration by the authorities, is the, only solution, of the problem. This can for the evil it would cure. It i. to be hoped that the extremists and the "The illicit aale of intoxicating liquor ha. already spread to the re.i- be obtained under the Park, and 3mith laws, and I call on the voters of professional f.n.ty.s may be induced to subside while those endowed with r v horse sense and common Honesty effect an adjustment ana a regulation denee section, of our municipalities, and while formerly only men engaged , this county to aid our committee in its efforts to put an end to the exikt- thai accomplishes some godd. in the traffic, now, shameful to nay, women and young girls are engaged in in intolerable and farcical conditions. Tours respectfully, The present condition is disgraceful in every respect and a reflection the nefarious business. x npon the intelligence of those who really believe the virtue of temper- . JONES G MOORE. ance. It would be much better. to follow the example of Alabama and re- "The police and criminal court records of our county sadly attest the .". v turn to the sane paths from which we '. were too easily seduced, for( this so flagrant violation of the law. We are expending large turns of money in . "Chairman Local Option Campaign Committee." called state wide prohibition is a farce and it is folly to persist in it. ' ' ' ' " ' ' J. |