| Show CLAIMS OF WETS HELD fiELD ABSURD Temperance Union Mem Mem- Members Members Iem- Iem bers Quote Statements Prosperity America liar has just experienced Its richest Christmas said Mrs titre C C E Fish nt at the W C T U meeting Wednesday At At the tho end 11 1 or of the th most successful business year eJ 1 II a n billion dollars dollar In checks check go goto go goto to fifteen million and In addition n the tho th greatest amount of ot Christmas savings over ever known hM has ha piled up In the ban banks bankIn s In all history there Is no record or of a nation so rich with Its wealth so evenly enly divided with wages wares So ed high employment so o general and prospects so tire fine So Secretary of oC Commerce Hoover tells us and almost at the th moment he hi was as making this report Roger Babson the great treat economist and business guide laid upon the tho desks of many bankers and business men menan menan an analysis it of the situation In which he ho say says Our total efficiency compared with ten yea years ago apo Is greatly Im- Im Improved Im Improved proved by the th Increased output per worker fiat ti-st through In en inventions Inventions and Improved machinery arid and second because of ot prohibition The Th average worker Is producing h half lf again as much goods as ho he did dida dida a fe ego reo and everybodY benefits Mrs George Miller who was as the tho next on the h program said ln In part With With business leaders leader crediting prosperity to p prohibition It Is fitting fit fit- fitting fit fitting ting to recall rec that the th d movement against t the liquor traffic fic began December 23 1873 1813 just 63 years ears ago eo with with- with the his his- his historic tone praying crusade at h Hills Hills-boro ills ills- boro Ohio from which grew crew the Womans Woman's Christian Temperance Temperanc union The society has hns marched forward valiantly and seven even cars ago the tb sixteenth of ot January was tins celebrating victory as the Eight Eight- Eighteenth Eighteenth ht amendment nt was adopted b by bythe bythe the greatest majorities In our ll torr liis-torr s- s stor tor tory art after r one state after an- an another an another other had already ady adopted local prohibition During th the prohibition cam cam- campaign campaign campaign the W C T U put forth the th claim that great treat eco eco- economic economic eco economic benefits would toll follow ow pro pro- pro prohibition 1 so Roger Dabson's re reo port Is Interesting And now w comes Professor nr Irving Fisher the great economist of ot Tale Yale university who credits credit the United States with six billion dollars of wealth cre- cre created created cre created by Increased d productivity be- be because because caus be-caus cause of Professor ProCessor sot lot mean merely six billion dollars richer than we wewer e were ere before prohibition but that we are richer by the th natural amount In Increase and six bil- bil bil lion dollars added to that arguments and even malicious untruths have hav always been used by the wets said Mrs Mra R H This Thill Is from the year book ot of o the United States Stales Brewers association as printed Do- Do De December cember 1916 lilt It is competition among the th men looking for jobs that keeps wa wages es low To give up drinking would merely Increase the number of ot men out of ot work and by making jobs harder to find Increase their willingness to work for tor th the tare lare means ot ot- subsistence subsistence sub- sub The Increased wages which n p reformed man gets will reduce Doth the th payroll and the rate of ot ware wages This absurd prophecy takes rank with the statement of o Dr that Lardner-that that no vessel could dould ever carry enough coal to drive It hy by steam across the Atlantic ocean The brewers brewer arguments was as based baledon on the silly theory that money not spent for tor drink would not oa oe spent anywhere but of cours w when hen the bartender did not get I It the money went Into the homes Immediately raising Americas America's 8 standard of living and finally the prosperity spread to every line ot of business and who believes this country will ever go eo back to Thu poor days of personal liberty and the custom of the th drinker to drink drinkall drinkall ILl all I he h wishes It if tho the rest of the population has to pay for It by giving this 7 up prosperity Here Hero Is the experience or of Peoria said Mrs Mr C W V Hadle Hadley as she be read the following Peoria was the tho th whisky center ot of the th west Just as Louisville was the whisky center of or the th ea east t With distilling distilling- gone cone these thes cities are prosperIng as ns they never pros pros- prospered pHed before Louisville Lout population has Increased In much greater proportion this till past six years than ever Its before before Its real estate Is le more valuable Its payrolls higher Its condition better Ask Ask anyone anone In Peoria If It be would like to return to the con con- con conditions of 10 years year ago aeo Peoria today almost rivals Chicago as ns a as a shopping center and as for the tho trainload ot of corn that came In there dally before prohibition three little cities In Illinois In- In Including Including In Including Peoria last year made Into breakfast food six times as much corn as the combined whisky of America used In their biggest hundred year with their five hun hun- dred distilleries working at full strength It has an Industrial payroll nearly atthe three times what It was at the highest point In the great manufacturing boom during the war has Increased Its payroll 60 COper per cent In the th last two years and the th buildings once used for distilling whisky and brewing beer are now doinG more and better business In other lines The Th meeting of the W c TU T U which was wa held at the home or of Mrs Mrs J M H KInard was wa presided over b by the president Mrs Irs Sir I F Richards Arrangements were l made ade for tor the day ot of o prayer for victory victory- day and f Mr fOr r the th coming of a national speaker Mrs Mr S J Stearns Steams was a guest The hostess was as assisted In en- en entertaining by Mrs Alice Seager and Mrs Robert |
