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Show ! MAYOR OF. LINCOLN, ! NEBRASKA, WRITES j . i Claims That Crimes and Criminal Prosecutions Have Decreased Un-der Un-der Prohibition Law, He Says, Is Enforced Dlegal Sales Not Greater Than Under License System. Cash eales are Increased and the laboring people are buying ft better class of goods. Second-hand business and pawn shop business have been wry materially Injured, but this is theonly business that is injured. Our reul estate tranf.frs amounted to over two mllllou dollar more than 1-ist year, and our building permits have increased forty-one per cent. Our business men are no longer atrald that closing the saloons hurts Luslness. "Seventh. The teachers of our universities and schools aud the students stu-dents In all our Institutions of learning learn-ing are practically all on tho div side. I do not know a single exception, excep-tion, though there may be some. "Eighth. One ear ago our business busi-ness men were afraid that the dry policy would hurt their business and I think the majority of them were n?alnst It This year they had founu from experience that it made buei- I ness better, aud a large majority o' them are now in favor of it. Our I experience has cntirey disproved the argument of the bresverles that closing the saloons will hurt business "I am very respectfully, (Signed I D. L. Love, Mayor." ' "O&den. Uliih. Aug. 2. 1910. "Edltur Standard Dear' Sir: In the editorial columns of the Standard, July 27, you quote a Mr. Dunn's answer an-swer to the question. 'Is prohibition a success lu Kansas?" In the spirit of fairness that has always been characteristic charac-teristic of your valuable paper, will ou kindly give space to the following follow-ing correspondence with Mr. Dtn L. Love, mayor of Lincoln, Neb. Sin- : cerely. yours, (Signed "DAVID O. McKAY." "Ogden. April lfi, 1910. ; "To the Mayor of Lincoln, NebraskaDear Nebras-kaDear Sir: I understand that for some time there have been no licensed li-censed saloons in your clt-y, and I observe ob-serve that at a local option election held on Tuesday of this week, the majority voted in favor of continuing the policy of no saloons. I am anxious ' to learn something of the effects of this policy, and will dom It a great ; favor If you will write mo answering, as fully aB yon may In a letter, tho following questions: "1. Have tho authorities of tbe city experienced serious difficulty In enforcing the laws or ordinances againet the sale of intoxicating liquors In the city; and, if so, from what cause or causes has this difficulty diffi-culty arisen? "2. Has the consumption of intoxicants intoxi-cants and drunkenness increased or decreased under the no license regime? re-gime? "3. Have crimes and criminal prosecut'"ns Increased or decreased since sa'jons hnvo been abolished, and to what extent? "4. Have taxes for the ordinary expenses ex-penses of the city government increased in-creased or decreased under the no 11-' 11-' cense system, and to what extent? "5. "what cfTect has the abolishing 1 of licensed saloons had on the morals : and welfare of the people of the city? "C. What has been the effect on the business and property values of tho city? "7. What has been the attitude of faculties, tcacherend students In the State university and In other institutions institu-tions of higher learning in the city on tho question of licensing saloons? "8. What has been the attlude of business men generally, other than those engaged, in some way, In the liquor traffic? "I am anxious to secure this information inform-ation at an early date, and trust that I am not asking too much of you. Verv respectfully yours, (Signed) "A. W. AGEE." "A. W. Agee, Ogc-n, Utah. Dea-S:r: Dea-S:r: I have Just received your letter let-ter of the loth Inst. Tho city of Lin-ioln Lin-ioln closed its saloons on the 10th dav of May. 1909. Wc have therefore been dry Just about one year. Th; matter was submitted to the people on May 1th, 1909, and the dry majority ma-jority vas 346. H as resubmitted on April 11th of this year and went 'ry by a majority of 03C. 1 will ans- ver your questions in the order in which you nsked them. "First We hace not had any serious seri-ous difficulty in enforcing the law against the sale of liquor In this city. My experience of this year has conduced con-duced me that tho unlawful sale of liquor cannot exist in any place for rny length of time without the knowledge of the police, and that If the officers who control the police w.sh to enforce the law It Is no more difficult to enforce than laws against any other ordinary crimes. My observation ob-servation has been that where there stents to be difficulty in enforcing the prohibitory law It arises from tbe fact that the officers do not wish to enforce It. "Second. The consumption of intoxicants in-toxicants here has decreased very materially. ma-terially. There Is probably not mor than io per cent of the liquor consumed con-sumed here now as compared witi: former years. In this connection I visit to say that the unlawful sale of liquor lu drug stores, rooming houses and dives Is very much less under prohibition than under the license ss- tern We have never had a year In v. hich these places gave us so little trouble as thl year. People who claim that prohibition cannot be en forced, point to illegal sales In drug stores and such places, assuming that when we have licensed saloons liquor le not sold in such places, but this assumption is not true. When there are saloons there Is more liquor ?old In authorized1 places than when there are no saloons, "Third. Crimes and criminal prosecutions prose-cutions have decreased. I am unable to give the exact figures. "Fourth. Taxes have been increased in-creased in the exact amount of tbe license money which we formerly collected col-lected from the saloons of this city, v. hlch amounted In the last year to something over $!0,u0O. This went Into the school fund. Therefore, taxes tor city purposes have been unchanged. un-changed. "Fifth The morals and general welfare of the people have been bettered bet-tered In a marked degree. This is especially true among tbe laboring classes There was scarcely an employer em-ployer of labor In the city at this la.it r lection who was not In favor of th-dry th-dry policy, because of the markeJ improvement among the laboring men. "Sixth. Our btisinoss men. almost without exception, report the best .'car's business they baw ever had. |