New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMB the ‘JgS‘a’loor‘t a Business Asset?” by Rev. W. F. Cook of Trinit.y Church Tells of Experience of Western City and Shows Enor mous Consumption of “»-_Alcohol i n the U.S. [Varren ¥, Cagk, pastor of 724,60 epn_odist‘”church ‘erigaged in liquors. nuckle bout with John Bar- spirituous before the members of the Endeavor Union last ev: he Ghurch and when the las over Mr. Barleycorn = w on the' rope battered, hnd breathless from trying to P minister’s Swings. e Sislood (a ‘Business SRS 6P Mr. Cook vearly for intoxicating This includes only malt, and liquors and wines. If beer and light wines are included it raises ‘the amount to $2,290,000,000 in round figur, This takes no account of the cost incurred for prosecution and other regulative necessities, nor of the constant cost of care for the | victims of intemperance. This i« | simply the initial retail cost. The figures are so very large we can hard- Iy comprehend them. A few compar- ‘l..flonh' m aid us. Five years of this liquor bill would buy all of the real | estate of New York and Chicago at | essed value, would have met the | national debt of Germany and France | before the war began. We could meet | our own national debt with half of | this vearly expenditure or pay I interest on it with one day of t liquor receipts. Ten years of liquor bill would buy ‘every railroad | in the country; six months of it | would buy all of the output of coal at all of the mines of the U. S. and all of the U. S. iron products could be purchased with the income of threc months business. This annual liquor bill amounts to one-seventh the value of all the gold dug, coined and consumed in all of the parts of the world since Columbus discovere:l America. Two years and eight months of the Boer war cost Great Britawn | same tims | 5,500,000,000 Guor. America loses more Ly | fire than any other nation. A hous jburns, on an average, every ten min- | utes; ‘the nhouses burned, if set side ide would make an unbroken line. {of desolation from New York to Chi- | cago. yet a recent report of the N | York city fire department shows that the total loss by fire is but $2.68 cents | bpositién to #he movement to | PET capita but the liquor hill of 1 | famounts to more than $30 for each arro from the aty, it zilbe«\llr;:’cl:‘ ”“:’Pm_“ Eiboen “nr’u\ T\}l'onmn and child in this coun- TRkl rocult vas bene- |Tv: The ]mno‘unt of money in circu- b tne, comimunity, both from a|lation In the U. S. in 1913 was §34.60 T nrnlly, b | per capita and two out of every three s o A jdollars of that passed through the m;‘.:?imor :l,m n?u;:rh ?lc;)l(‘rs during y ¢ year. The drlnk hill of New York PR Amestions: Paramount. | ¢ “ai0ne it turned Into. dollar bi considering this. as any im-lguen as are in in business, (no: | subject, it will be well 10 |0y dollar bills,) and piled one on ton o ‘mind that the subject can- of the other wonld make a stack treatedfullyiin the time that high as the Woolworth building. Tho e. ,Qf&@'fi . one phase f'f the | cashier of the Irving National Bank can” be xéofiflrslmn—ed In all its | worked this out for me at my sus [ Quedtiops may arise in your | gestion, A which 4ré not answered kfl“.\ And so we might go on, but it BN SA¥Bsueh i the case, and |often said that the above figures do pre to.tapry after the service, |not rightly estimate a loss as much eaker w’lll. be_glad to consider | of this money goes out for wages for ou af¢MECh questions. It carriage etc., which is good business, g}]so be remembered that 1 |all of which sounds very plausible un- ering one phase of the ques- iti] you look deeper into the economis ther phases scem to lose their | facts. We have to ask how much So- ance for;the time. This, how- | ciety gets in return for the product s .only; relative, ‘and is because i which is turned upon it and more promingnce .given to the one. |we must ask what per cent labor én 1 consider more fully the |gets compared with what it would get ic phase of this question vou |iere it transterred to husin ; ot feel that T'think of it as the s useful. It is not fair to imply sa important /issye, for T do not. |that labor is employed and that this oral questions are paramoun. {inoney circulates in business enter- huestion of the. character and | prises we must ask whether or mot of our citizenship: the ques- |there is real cconomic loses in this pf the opportunity”and develop- i production which would not occur in o}f] gur lboy::i and Founz] men-— | the production of useful material. physical and, mental growth . or a1l ‘the attending advantages Jusaoenay et i disadvantages—these - questions | . Soor 18 reported to have made Mil- R hiditionn) Dut Tiipeak move| s adous buaini 43 Sithefpro; ularly of the economie phase of | AUCErs of beer and mlt in that city iquor problem because, these | SMPIOYed 5,100 workmen -on in- Guestions are more generally ; Yooument of $563,450.000 or one ted, by reputable cltizens, Few WOTKMAN to every £10,480. At the | e want their hoys and irls tg Sime time the boot hoe industry | the exceedingly dangerous temp- ©f Milwaukee was emploving 3,925 & ~FRICK Hquow, and its in- Workmen on an investment of $4 releases in’*the " community, | 200,000 or one workman to eve fese same people will many times | $1.078. For every miilion dollars i Yor this very condition, and ! Vested in the manufacture of lumber | the chance because of business | 579 men are emploved: for every mil- | - FRNER A e lion dollars investec in the manufac- | he United States, as well ture of te 5 1 are employed; Blate sl city, receives . & o | for cvory fon dollurs invested in B 40 5the manutacture 1| the manufacture of leather products of intoxicants, and no one can | 469 men are employed, but for every bnably deny that if you remove | million dollars invested in the manu- (consideration vou shatter one of | facture of liquor, 77 men are em- | strongest of ‘the Hquor strong- ! bloved. Certainly such - business is ' and argunrents. . When Sam ; not the friend of labor, and when you 1} predénted his biting argument | 20 further und see what it does for | Al congressional committee | the family of the poor man who fas | ‘aga; Sepator ‘Hoar im- | Pecome it the loss is beyond | ; | | Asset 2" talk. He JEV. WARREN F. COOK. the experiehceé of a city in the om. which .tae aloon ‘ by force. While there was as fol- is | Beer an lar anc 3 sed the question: ‘How Ana certainly we must 1 we replace this large income judge the value of any business the liquor taxation?' That ar- | Concern by the value of the ent becomes a strong state and | product which it turns out. issue every where cach time an cminent member of question of prohibition or - parliament once said, I tion is raised, and it is a real | the finished product of the Btion to be dealt with soherly, but | Was lying in the zutts ourse, it is not final. This coun- | hat on; (ae hat trade suffering. ! and our cf tion Thas always | His coat was full of holes; the cloth- | n ready to sacrifice not only mones | ing trade was suffer He had holes | life for the ultimate human good. | in his shoes: the shoc trade was suf-, it wjll ever be so. A few fering. He had on the remnant of a | dfi‘% h million dollars i shirt; the woolen trade was sulfering. | of going to stand in the way. He had on no socks; the ho: i t to be very emphatic about this. | was suffering. He was dirty; the soap ey consideration will ultimate trade was suffering. I can hardly fe way before nobler principles. an.l | mention a useful industry that was not suffering because of that man’s inso- | { bricty.’ He might well have added i that probably no institution was suf- fering so much as the home if this was married man. It certainly is not good economy to continue a business whic emplm'flf‘ finished 3 Leif | the met aloon. He | He had no ery trade | selves just 1o s of ifmmediate money re- Anything that lowers the non- pductiveness of the laboring man an economic questio anythin ich lowers the mentality of tI a 1d that has to make a living. is an | less men by far for the capital invested pnomic question. . If the profits of | «nd then turns out a finished business are all ‘0¥t of proportion ! uct that is not only a mise and al| the value of the product to society | curse to itself but a constant drag if the working ‘man receives for | upon society both morally and finan- labor a per cent. of the cort | cially. ich is much less than he would re- “If a Detroit automobile company | ive in the manufaeture of the neces- should receive from American patrons ies of life. or if a given amount of | cash orders for machines amounting | pitol tied up in the productlon of $2,000,000,000 and should then business employs a very much | them on barges and dump them pailer per cent. of labor than is ;into Lake Michigan you would have a hployed in the useful businesses of | similar thing to what the manufac- e, tham the questions of economy | turer of intoxicant liquors is doing e before us: ‘These are things that | each year for us. Of course in such ant te“consider. a case, labor would have been em- 1,724,607;319 Annual / Liquor Bill. | ployed to manufacture these cars, but [ “Let us first<look at the size of , the patrons would have been defraud- B liquor business in the U. S.? The | ed and an actual cconomic loss to prod- | is new, live and active. cause we have circulated it regularly We will furnish this list at the price: 40,000 to 20,000 of les | trying | Their | ably from a liquor firm in IKKans Mo., going out of business to siow that the liquor interest themselves know full well what the results of their trade is. This letter bears the heading: Kentucky Distillers Distributing Co. Distillers Dircct From Distillery. Finest High Grade Straight Whiske Brandies, Wines, and Gins. Our Brands Are Standard Brands. Known the World Over. Keeley Institute, Dwight, Til- Gentlemen:— Our customers are your prospective patients. We can put on your desk a mailing list of over 50,000 individual consumers of liquor. This list is the result of thousands of dollars of ad- ver ng. Each individual on the list is a reg- ular user of liquor. The list of names We know be- in listed below. 0,000 quantities ...$400.00 300.00 10,000 e 500100 We will not furnish this list in lots than ten thousang Discontinuance of business Janu- 1st is the occasion of selling our ng 1 Yours truly, KENTUCKY DISTILLERS DIST. CO. W. Franklin, President. “I have ancther letter of the same character here from the same firm to the Neal these institiites are well cerns for the reform of the drunkard, and yet this house Institute, Chicago. Both of known con- recognized that had been making of their cus: torovgh their business, the fu ture patrons of these reform institutes to undo as best they can the damage already done by the liquor busine This is a rather strong ad- mission. “It would not he hard to show, had we the time, that every cent which the United States and the states and the cities receive from revenue from the saloon is eaten up by the neces sary progecution and carc of jaus and alms houses and poor farms, etc., in- creased through the effects of habits. Many men, who are stud ing this matter carefully and impar- tially deciare that it costs the U, s., and its cities at least five times what they receive in revenue, to care for the conditions caused by drink, Busi- ness iz beginning to see this. “Here is a common rule which al- most all the railroads of this country operate under. The use of intoxi- cants while on duty is prohibited. use, or the frequenting of places where they arc sold is sufli- i cause for dismissal.’ Nany of vilroads. such as the Penn- . wil not allow drinking either on or off duty. “A very interesting the condition of the army since doing away with the canteen compared with before, and also a study made by Hugh Fullerton, prob- the leading baseball writer to- day. as to the effects of liquor on ath- let Connie Mack, manager of the famous Philadelphia Athletics. says, ‘T have twenty-five players. Of that number fifteen do not know the taste of liquor. Raseball men today are not of the drinking class. The fact s that a big league player has to be in trim day in and day out, or he goes to the minor 1t is the survival of the fittest.” Fullerton says. ‘I have watched this drinking in athletics for a long time and there are no two sides One of the greatest baseball ines of the »resent generation study is that of the Question of Enforcing the Law. “Very often we hear it said that vou cannot legislate morals into peo- ple. ‘You cannot make people good by law.’ And that is true in a sense, although when you stop and consider we are educating by law. Our boys and girls must g0 to school. Tt is true that you cannot make them learn, but vou can throw around them an en- vironment by compulsion which certainly is responsible for the better education of many of our children, who would otherwise neglect privilege. And in the same while it may not be possible to en- tirely keep men from getting liquor who have gotten the habit, yet it is possible to protect boys and vyoung men from contracting the habit by d'at retail §1,- | “Let me introduce here two letters | uq}m the American | humanity incurred. legal restriction. We hear much in this regard also as to personal liberty, Gifts that are lasting and will please--If you buy one of our Guaranteed Piano, a Music Cabinet, a fine Serving Tray, an Easy Rocker or Chair. For the Children, Sleds, Chairs, Rocking Horses, Doll Houses, Beds, etc. Buy one of Macey’s Book Cases, Free Sewing Machine, Hoosier Cabinet or Magee Range and Get $7.92 Worth of Pure Food Products Free. This offer only good one week more. OHN A. ANDREWS & CO. 132 Main Street but one mans personal liberty ceases where an er begins. The personal liberty of tiie man who runs an auto- mobile ceases where the personal lib- v of the pedestrian begins and so | society is able to get on. Liberty is restricted to its good use. I cannot do what I will with even my own child. Society says thal I must send him to public school, ete. 1 cannot destroy my own property even though in doing so I do not injure another, be- cause society has set itself against; waste and so personal liberty has its bounds. Certainly one of those bounds must come if one man's per sonal liberty makes it possible to set | before another man and 'his boy one of the most dangerous temptations | and causes him te bear burdens con- sequent of the others privilege- “The fact that it is so difficult to enforce the restriction and prohibition of liquor is not a very good testimony to the law abiding character of those who handle it. TIn America the major- ity rule, vet let any city in Connecti- cut or elsewhere go dry and rather than aiding that condition as good citizens cor even pulling out and let- ting things aloe, the liguor interest invariably use ail the influence and money possible to make it appear that | the law is enforced as well as it can be for any length of time the liquor forces begin to pull off. Money is a | great question with them and they will not continue a losing financial fight. P “We have the government statistics before us to show that in the wet ter ritory of the U. §., there is really more illegal selling than in the dr: Under the guise of a federal tax there are ‘blind pigs.’ and ‘speak easies’ and all kinds of illegal saloon business going on in every license state in the country. In z2lmost every one of these states these figures show that these places which are evading the license | Jaw are almost as numerous as the | Tes saloon. so that the liquor law does not step nonenforcement. When | one stops to think of what creates the joint it is evident why the above is true. It is not laws against liquor dealing that creates these places. These places have become necessary to take care of the man who has gone far in his habits of drunkenness that the rezular saloon will not allow him to enter. Their respectable trade will not stand for it. but the habit upon him and he must find some place to sat habit. There is only one | place—it is the joint or dive, or blind pig. whatever you call it, which now offers to meet this man’s need:- Were it not for such men—men who have been mude what they ar> and then cast out by the regular saloon—there would be no place for the illegal sa- loon. “The argument of nonenforcement s0 this ' way, | is fundamentally wrong in the first place from the fact that all law of re- striction is based on the violation of principle. The orly reason we have laws prohibiting anything is becaus some principle of human interest w being violated so frequently that for the protection of society the law had to be made. Tt is therefore not to be expected that all violation of this principle will cease when the law is made. The opposite is rather to be expected—that for a time, at least, the Jaw will be violated, until through the penalty and through the good resul which accrue the people see its worth. Right here is one of the great troubles. A city goes dry and they get it for a vear “At end of that time many declare that the dry conditions cannot be en- | forced, Lecause they been well enforced that year. No city can be made dry in a vears time, especial- ly when those forces who do not want it diy do their atmost to keep it wet. But let any city set out with determin- ation and willingness to pay the first cost though it take ten vears to do it, ana that city will in all probability not return to the wet column. At any , rate that is the history of such trials. Experience of Kansas City. Let me finish this by telling you of the story of a very wet city that went dry and staved. Liquor Probe, Kansas City, Kansas a city about the size of New Britain, situated in Wianott county, just across the river from Kansas City, Mo. Most af the saloons in Kansas City were owned hy brewers in Kansas City, Mo. When Attorney General Jackson took office in 1906 he appointed Charl W Tricket a special assistant atiorney general to go to Kansas City, Kansas, and enforce the liquor law, Z\Ir.i ] ! like ! city Tricke June, 256 sal 60 houses of ill fame. the Sth July, f er, ling in the to be Now how it the st possible to close up a liquor shop as a nuisance. ly began to enforce this law of abate ment. saloon thinking that the other saloons wculd | tell him of the 4 take t had fixture: | night, closed, sold, would be doing business the next morning. brougt keeper in Wianott county, laughe be doi tion w keeper would river to take his place, and would as thouzh one ev | going he found figured in all of the following record . of the we ha and just as this time, or just a little before these the ra debris, threatened to flood, and probably ruin one of the lower wards of the city The people of that ward, in order tn save their homes, up thi road ward. ple m the injunction, the Railroad asked the court shall court et United see th where sibility highes ought is actually cordingly, Mr. Tricket won his case. day, h every the saloon keepers out, put a padlock on the and s thought law, Most all cials werc against Mr. Tricket. coun commi were tried cuse that they lacked food. did they dia in found interfe fering The probate judge, has power in Kan- sas to habeas Corpus, three, {the su s for aiding prisoners to escipe Kar from the was, th procee: throug mavor Chicago, papers enforce the laws of Kansas, and man would enforced. and even the mayor of the | could be ousted from office, fined ousted of police. the captain of police, they * put injunction and 100 saloon keepers un- 1. der bo pended sentences. never to sell liquor again in that county. people rented man who sold the liquor, and todey there that a so tha time, i there w house, it, went junction against said t was appointed on the Sth of | liquor in these buildings they could | city was deposed from office, and fined 1906. He found in the L'uum,\'{he prosecuted immediately. The | for the attitude he took against the ! loons, 200 gambling houses and | thoroughness with which they did | PRI This was | prosecution. necessary elect a an | business reminds one of another Wan- | of June. On the 3rd of | sas cyclone story that a man tells of, | therefore, to ive days less than a month aft- | which swept his place destroying his | The Republicans and : barn, but not being | crats each put up a man satisfied, came back that night for the | hoth men were against the cellar. cution, and in favor of an open a very long time. Prosecutor Finally Thanked. | and, the people had the wondeift the interesting part of this is Now as to the results of this ef-| choice of voting for Judas Iscariot was done. We have a law in | fort. When this prosecution was| Captain Kidd. The temperance peo- ate of Kansas which makes it | under way, and the results realized, | Ple put up a Dr. Grey, a reputable business men of the city began to be | temperance man of the city, but with- Mr. Tricket immediate- | worried. The Chamber of Commerce | out party affiliations. They went met, and selected five of its mem- | through Kansas Avenue, which ix the bers, three hankers and two mer- | principal business street of RECE chants to wait on Mr. Tricket, and | City, Kansas, and 152 of the struction to business | men of that city subscribed the money interest, which was bound to follow |to elect Dr. Grey against both tt if he did not relent in his prosecution. | republican and democrat nominees, They told him that business would | because they wanted conditions to re- and the saloon which had been | 8o across the river: that clerks would [ main as they were Now business where the fixtures had heen | have to be discharged; buildings | men do not throw their money aay again | would become vacant, etc. These | on sentimentality, and such a fac: as Mr. Tricket next ! men pleaded with Mr. Thicket for |this is a strong argument in favor every saloon half a day. Finally, the only way |of the busginess results, which came but *hey | that Mr. Tricket could get rid of | from closing a city in this way. Tt <aid they wonld A them was to say, ‘Gentlemen, I did. not | Was stated by this committee, which the prosecu- | make the laws of the state of Kan- | visited Mr. Tricket that buildings as in grave, and it looked 1 am not responsible for a sin- would become vacant, and genera] for often as one saloon ! gle statute upon her books, but [ |improvements would cease, but -tie would be arrested another one | am an officer of the law. I have | United States building statistics for be supplied from across the | sworn before God to enforce her laws, | the vear 1908 show that the Jargest things | and I intend to enforce them no mat- | proportion of gain in building in any ter if it turns corner lots back into |ecity in the United States from July field and forest, and Wianott county | 1st, 1906 to July 1st. 1907 209.7 into a Sahara Desert’ and mind vou, | per cent. and that was in Kan- Mr. Trickett was not at this time a | sas City, Kansas—the first year believer in prohibition himself, and |after the saloons were closed, . Tiwn i next largest in any city in the United he has said that he was ont certain States was 77 per cent. Kansas City, at all as to the results. The only way you could know the results would | Kansag, not only increased in popu- lation during that year more than sny | be to let time tell. In the next year or two we heard nothing of Kansas city in the state, but it increased more floods, which, because one of | City being wiped off the map, or in actual numbers than Kaneas (ity, ilroad bridges was stopping the | much about business failures or va- | Mo., across the river, which was more and forming a sort of dam, | cant buildings, nor increase of taxes, | than three times its size. The cost | but on the contrary, sixteen months | of county prosecution was reduced | $25,000 that first vear. There had later, this same business men's organ- | been no term of court previous whifhy | ization selected the same five men, { who had visited Mr. Tricket »re- | had lasted less than six to eight wenks. viously, and sent them to him as a | In the sixteen months following there committee from them, instructed to was no term that lasted longer than thank him for the best vear's busi- |three days. and one term there was ness the city had ever known At not a single offender to prosecute Mr. Tricket's request every banker in | The yvear previous to the closing cf the city but one wrote him a lelter the saloon there were 25 boys sent from Kansas City to the reformatory stating his personal belief as to re- to the bridge to see that the Sults of the closing of the saloons There never had been less than !'a year, but in the sixteen months fol- order was obeyed. Mr. Trick-; upon the city’s business. This other if the highest court in the | banker was not asked because Mr. 'lowing the closing of the saloon thore were only two boys sent, and likewise, States can send its officer to, Tricket had had to prosecute him | at a law is enforced. nplv personally for renting his property for | in sixteen months after, there were there is the pos- liquor purposes three times; but in |only two applications to the Juvenilo ciolation, certainly the the letters, which were written to Mr. | Court, and no year previous had in the United States Tricket by these bankers, every hank | there been less than 96, and in one its officer where ‘here Without a single exception stated that | month previous there had been § of the law. A they had had the best business in the | 1t means something to have the homes was argued and history of their concern. The Home | of the city take care of ils children The next City bank showed an increase of 44 | instead of the public.” visited per cent.; the Armordale bank showed | taolk an increase of 36 per cent.; the Smu‘ ings bank an increase of 50 per cent. back and front doors of ~ach, i and the writer voluntarily stated that | tationed where they he believed that 75 per cent. of this H il ncoenrany enforce the 50 per cent. increase was from a class | But the trouble sver. of people who previously were not | G e e e offi- able to deposit anything in the banks. The probably from the liquor conditions. the connty | Tscariot or Capt. Kidd. those who “I stated that the mayor of on the ex- This tley il several instances until they themselves facing a charge of ring with orders of the “ourt! with the orders of the new mayor demo and proses not a saloon or gami-! house and his fame ; em ' or a house of ill country. That does not city, or He did it first against ihe Ka s with the most costly fixtures, | business and close up, but it effect whatsoever. New s would be moved in over he hint, no ht suit against and when a4 at him, ng busin its sas. as on as usual. Tt seemed the crisis had come, but ening while Mr. Tricket was | over some papers in his office | a court decision, which | g0 wa case. Every once and a while ve very high floods in Kansas, this, there had been one of threatened to blow s railroad bridge, but the Rail- into court and got an in- the people of :hat However, feeling that the peo- ight not pay any attentior to to send the United States Mar- of t court to send violation the case hi. istants, Wianott county. e, with saloon in ASK FOR and GET ORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL . MALTED MILK Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price. deputies to was not county advised pardon them attorney oners to hefore the in several instances 1 “I never ate Such Griddle Cakes."” Mrs. R. Van Vechten, 228 No. Sth Ave., ML, Vernon, N. V. DsC SELF-RAISING FLOUR For Light, Delicate Pie Crust, uit, Pastry, Dumplings and Pan Cakes. € court. writ of release | release people on a and he did until he faced an ouster suit in preme court of the state of custody of the court, and hereafter, enjoined against such dings. The prosecution was h. they not only showed fhe, of the city, who had gone to and was reported in the | saying that ‘God could not | as not. that the laws could be and $1.000, which he was. The the county attorney, the chief When You Read Do you experience a sensation of eye strain or afterwards suffer from smarting, aching eyes or headache? If so you need to he fitted to NEW GLASSES, To be sure of good service and fair prices come to F. L. McGUIRE, 276 MAIN STREET Upstairs Over the Commercial Trust Co., LeWitt Bldg.—Telcphone 00 citizens under permanent nd and many more under sus- Further, thes» thought that the man whe his property was as bad as the are 500 buildings in that city re under permanent injunction. t this vear, next vear, or f anyone should attempt to ell |