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Show I OGDEM MANUFACTURERS' AND I BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIA- I TICJN'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST I PROHIBITION B i ' I Association's Headquarters Second Floor, Utah National Bank Building. Phones Bell, 995; Ind., 376. CARL Hl ALLISON, Secretary. 1 1 1 1 A CABINET OF FACTS AND FIGURES COMPILED FROM I OFFICIAL SOURCES. 1 Reading - and New Bedford Pennsylvania Massachusetts H Beading, Pennsylvania, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, are ' cities of auproximately-100,000 population each. New Bedford has no licenses; Reading has 17o retail liquor li-M li-M censes, 33 wholesale licenses, -i breweries and 5 bottlers. Wt The expense of the police department of New Bedford for 1908 I were $135,000.00, or $1.35 per capita. The arrests for intoxication were 1,678, m the ratio of one to HI 60 of population. ncn The total municipal expense was $1,250,000.00, or $12.50 per B capita, Hj The expenses of the police department of Reading- for 1908 were. $S8,605.00, or $.89 per capita. m The arrests for intoxication were 835, in the ratio of one to 120 K of population. The total municipal expense was $585,291.50, or $5.85 per capita. I Note. It will readilv be observed that the above official record is not complimentary to 'the prohibition theory of reduction in pub- lie expenditures when the licensed liquor traffic is eliminated. New Bedford voted to return to the license system at the clcc-H clcc-H tion in December, J 909. "We shall give a comparison of fifty cities where the same con- ditions prevail, completely disposing of the argument that the loss H of license fees will be more than compensated for in the reduction H of expenses chargeable to the liquor traffic. H |