Show I OUCH CRIES S SENSITIVE ENS I T I V E POCKETBOOK NERVE I I AS DRY TIDE RISES HIGH By Richard Editor of Commerce and arid Finance and Special Writer for The Salt Lake Telegram Assigned to Humanize and Vitalize the Topics of Economics and Reconstruction It is the testimony of those best qualified qualified qualIfied to judge that less liquor was wass s sold old New Years Year's eve In New York than on any such occasion in many years rears ears Three things contributed to make the celebration tame One was the rain The second was the strike of ot waiters walters The third was the prices The third probably was the most ef of- of Since it became evident that prohibition prohibition prohibition was coming in America the sa saloon saloon saloon sa- sa loon people have been acting in their usual purblind way They have raised their prices and at the same time Introduced in introduced introduced In- In smaller bar glasses and have havo doctored whisky Between low gra grade e liquor and high prices many occasional drinkers have given up drinking or have been drinking drinking drInking drink drink- ing less New Yorks York's New rew r- r ew Years Year's eve moderation moderation moderation mod mod- is noteworthy in view of the fact that within a few years the number number number num num- ber of of saloons in In the city has been reduced from nearly to less than This reduction has brought to the support of ot the liquor people a powerful powerful power power- ful Influence which is beginning to assert itself in no uncertain way Itis It Itis Itis is the property owner The real estate of New York City Is assessed for more than The tax rate Is Ison Ison Ison on full valuation and at a rte rOte in ex excess excess excess ex- ex cess of t Thousands of corner stores formerly former former- l ly saloons or locations in ordinarily advantageous sites are empty or have had to be let to renters at much re reduced reduced reduced re- re prices The pocketbook n nerve Is a sensitive sensitive sensitive tive one with various persons Great corporations too are beginning to be heard from Frank Bally Bailey vice president president president dent of the Title Guarantee and Trust company has come out with a public declaration that prohibition would demoralize demoralize de tie- I moralize the real estate marKet mantel of ot New New York Ills His company guarantees mortgages on property valued at hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of millions of dollars The value of ot many mortgages Is impaired by the property revenue loss by the steadily diminishing number of ot saloons Many property owners who formerly former former- ly were vere indifferent to the prohibition question are now lining up with the liquor people because their material Interests are endangered It is dawning dawning dawning dawn dawn- ing on taxpayers in general too that the cutting off orf of revenue fees and saloon license fees means higher taxes for them Meanwhile the prohibitionists are militant and confident When the thesa- thesa sa- sa BEER BREWING BAN TO STAY N. 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A Washington Bureau 34 1128 Munsey I WASHINGTON Feb 14 The H.-The The brewers are not going to get Jet the chance cnance to make any more beer be before before before be- be I fore the country goes dry on July 1 They have asked President WilI Wilson Wil Wil- Vilson son to recall his proclamation of of ot last year prohibiting them from I using grain for tor brewing The president figures It Is said in oft official cial circles that as long as 1 the nationwide wartime prohibition act goes into effect July 1 anyway there would be bo only three or four tour months In which the brewers could 1 manufacture beer This new stock might be used up before July 1 and it might not If I not it would only help to make trouble for the government In en enI enforcing enforcing en- en I 1 forcing the prohibition law The present stock of beer will be about I exhausted by the time the country goes dr dry I A report has been widely circulated circulated I I that Food Administrator Hoover has asked President Wilson Vilson I to lift the ban against the brewI brew brew- I ers Officials of the food administration administration adminis adminis- say there Is no truth in inthis inthis I this r report port I loon goes they say coffee houses houses' will II I spring up and become popular and that in every section of every city I town and village there will be social I clubs or meeting places in which men menI I will find means of sociability equal to those of ot the saloon To the danger of ot the spread of ot the I use of ot narcotics they say only th men menso so o addicted to liquor as to be hopeless hope- hope I I less cases will fall victims to such a j I menace and they express confidence 1 that even in this instance the effect will not be so great as some persons I Iha fear As to In the cities they I confers there will be an Increase but buti j i they Insist the evil will be combated I j so vigorously by the city the tho state and the national for forces Qs that it soon will be stamped out Liquor men say If It the public knew I what men will do to get a substitute e for liquor when they cant can't get the regular regular regular reg reg- reg- reg ular article there would be less deI desire de- de sire for tor prohibition They profess to I believe if the country could experiment expert expert- m ment nt with prohibition for a few months and then decide whether it wanted It it I there would be an overwhelming vote against prohibition |