Show EFFECTS OF prohibition wayne B wheeler tells of actual conditions prohibition in ohio has emptied jails and poorhouses Poor houses and decreased the taxes wayne B wheeler national attorney tor for the anti saloon S aloon league delivered an address in salt lake sunday afternoon in advocat advocacy of the extension of the prohibition moe ment to utah mr wheeler expressed hi satisfaction at the progress already made and predicted that th the state would be in the dry column within a few years the tabernacle was well filled with an audience that listened attentively to mr wheelers remarks after a brief introduction by the rev dr L S fuller executive exe cutie representative of the league in utah mr wheeler took the he declared that the sentiment sent ment of the people is changing in evern ever state and that to 10 the he churches in backing the men einna nt is due the credit for a large share ot of the gratify ing results he slid said that in utah the sentiment was due in a large measure to the word of wisdom handed doa doan n by bv sour our great prophet early in this great campaign said card mr wheeler business men were ere afraid that it would hurt bur business if the saloons run out these business men ae now lighting fighting the liquor traffic they find that the money that wis was formerly spent in the saloons now finds its way into legitimate enan nels of trade that credit is a better belter that the per capita of the population has brownl many fold 1 I tail call one instance in my own state stall of j ohio where a trA veiling gi lesman man visited a business businessman man in one of elie he towns while he was in the store a woman came in and ordered a large bill of goods for which she he paid cash c iba sh then ihen b sud tid to the clerk we have an old account here will you please see how much it Is the amount was large but she paid more than half ot of it uhe the proprietor told me that he had h a a never neer ex e pecked to get that account that the provider for the family had formerly fur merly spend every nila met el he be ear bained ned in drink jt it is one of the thousand of nf in clients which I 1 could bite onecio one of tho the big newspapers of cleveland whose stoel stock by the w wv av was largely owned by the liquor interests tL rests sent out a first class le ie gracei to study the sentiment of the people of tile the state with ith respect to prohibition ind and th the saloon question generally chis reporters letters shi wed that the sentiment was very stron st jy in ill faor of running oat the silou s lie reported that he had I 1 teen een uie to lu act ii SL scarcely arcely any business men LU endorse the traffic I 1 hey were eye all alid to ee the si loone clu eluded ed his hib conclusions acle ucle to the effect that the public sentiment was vas s wrongly in favor of closing the si arid and that sentiment will rule tile the s aloon is a pirate on oil ca every lr legitimate business it works oreb more haid hips on oil laan lib 11 that man all of the other evils which the unions luoc to combat seiti ties show how that in the kor kingmen men in the dri se be lions get on oil in an average of more than tho e in N lt et their houri hour lie ale lighter rhe fhe labor leaders have corne come to a realization tint that the saloons arf are bandin sending more children into the facto neB arid and mort more women ornen into industrial life th in all of the other factors combined they tell ug uc that if we cut out the revenue gained from the saloon licenses our public treasuries will be empty that is a deliberate delio erate false hood I 1 will tell you aou precisely how bow that works in ohio in III th four counties where the biggest cities are the per capita is only 9 28 in twenty enty eight counties oun tieh where filere there are q wine borne restrictions it is 20 in eight COLIn counties where there are still fewer it is 13 about 50 and in the counties where there are no saloons loona it is 95 5 98 or ten times greater than it is in the counties where the saloons ire are permitted to haic hae their own way now I 1 1 blind man can see that it is easier to raise taxes on per capil I 1 i of than it is 13 on oil a per capita of 1 11 l this to sm sa nothing of the nn ery which the licensing of saloons arid and what hat their pres preg continued oti on pape page 8 EFFECTS OF prohibition Conti from first page enee ence brings the cost of the saloon aloon to the community j M in crime ana ric is appalling in the first place them the are responsible for sending ending to prison hundreds vho aho are producers produce rb of wealth and nhen hen these the go to the eryl jw cp have to tike tahe tito HI of if their families alln in the foar counties I 1 a mum pit ago there thu thi records show OWN crime in a ratio of avent twenty to a dation of 2 bi in the counties avi fe ate I 1 lalu uns one to every luo and in the counties where there are no saloons the sheriff know where the penitentiary is the superintendent of the cleie cee land workhouse e told me tint that of the 2970 inmates sent t ta him in one ear came drink to their lon dilion since the movement ha has bied bi ed fairly organized has ai per lent and aneti fur mi demeanors demei derne nors have d per cent and now the liquor I 1 eople cople torie one o ne along and tell us if e c will let ILL them alone they will be good they uil lid cut out the dives ind will do dav with the estem of bre bresen owned baloom bihy hy do thea the tell us that no DOV I 1 why didn dian t than thc cut them out nut bears ears aoa pont dont lehive them if you OU let them alone in of af their promises there bulun t te ie balfa bif a dozen aloon cut out by them in the whole united states and if we wait vait for them to be good we would die of old age mr 11 wheeler heeler showed shoved a map of ohio where hereon on the riby sections is etere ere indi abed in red and the wet districts in black the map was nearly all red and we will continue this richt said mr wheeler until c aeri era black spot on this map is ic wiped biped out we liae have already sixt sit two of the eig eighty counties counte dry in addi addinton ad dilton iton to this there are arc the townships of municipal municipalities ties thit have abolished the liquor traffic under other than state laws in fact I 1 can ay that nine inne tenth of f the kh tite of ohio hati has abolished I 1 saloon faliti calit for prohibition in the ba lb being waged in oregon twenty one of the thirty four counties counte s are dr and 1 I air from next net Noe november No ember niber the people will ote on tile the in n to prohibit the manu f hilure and nd q sile ile of liquor in an part of the state if jou iou v witch itch the acs paper accounts aci of the election next coining mo ino ining iou OU will viii sic see that the prohibition hibi tion movement his won win |