Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1916, Page 13

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 5, 1916. 13——A POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, OLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, Shoot Omaha’s Prosperity and Financial Standing to Pieces, Boys, We Have Nothing at Stake. ---Anti-Saloon League. Look Out for Reorbacks Now This is about the usual time in the campaign for the Dry Committee to trot out its “Bogie Man” and rehash its line of pathetic “dope.” with their colored misstatements and garbled statistics from prohibition cities. We ask the citizens to beware. . We are reliably informed that the Dry Committee has taken exceptions to our advertisement in regard to the workings of prohibition in Council Bluffs, and they are at the pres- ent time in that city seeking statistics to refute our arguments as to the comparison between the number of arrests for drunkenness in Omaha and Council Bluffs. We defy them to " TAXES: ' It seems that in all prohubition campaigns, that those who have the least at stake are usually the leaders for the prohibition cause. Of course, in Omaha, it is a lttle different, but in order that you may be informed-we shall publish for your information a comparison of the amount of taxes paid by our prohibition friends and the amount that is paid by some who are against a destructive and high-tax policy for Omaha. The Deadly Parallel: Names and amounts of taxes paid by those who advocate prohibition: Names and amounts of taxes paid by those who favor license: Lothrop; G E N e e Owns no property Brandeis, Walter. ...................... Pays $1,368.96 taxes Perley, L0 e e et Owns no property McCaffrey, Owen........co0oveeiveviein Pays $1,433.77 taxes { Reynolds E.M:oc. ol v s Owns no property Storz Brewing Co...................... Pays $5,098.88 taxes ' Clark, F B s ot Owns no property Krug Brewing Co...........ccovvuunn. Pays $4,593.95 taxes Cloyd A D L e oo Owns no property Millar, Rome . o e Pays $5,705.85 taxes Bennett, M. Voo ciiios aivreriiaielv i iosinisnniainions Owns no property Paxton Hotel.........oivvnvivenennneen Pays $7,397.26 taxes Crowell, C. Cldr v ey Owns no property O’Brien, Thomas. ...................... Pays $§ 98C.00 taxes * Cunninghemy CoDivig. o oovvviveiianinnnn, Owns no property b Thomas, ElfnerE. ..., ........ccoeonnn.. Pays $ 87.30 taxes License Total................ooeoviinnn $26,587.67 Graham, W, Toooo0. oo oo a e Pays $584.74 taxes i - e arrinom e e e pr e Pays $ 83.33 taxes | Morrow. Ko T s e e o s Pays $ 11.90 taxes LOWE, BITHS ol i e sy Pays $ 8.04 taxes Jb v 1 ) DR e e A A $775.31 “Shoot Omaha’s prospenty and financial standing to pieces, boys, we have nothing at stake. Raise the taxes to the limit, we don’t care.” Eight of our Dry Committee pay | no taxes whatever, and five pay the small amount of $775.31, as compared to the $26,587.67 paid by those who are opposed to prohibition. ‘ If some of those who are in favor of prohibition had a tax of from $5,000.00 to’$7,000.00 to pay each year, they would not be so anxious for a 25 per cent increase in tax rate, and perhaps an increase in valuation at the same time, such as they have in Council Bluffs today. ' Our statistics from Council Bluffs were authentic and we challenge the Dry Committee to deny them. We also challenge them to show that they have not received contribu- tions from the merchants across the river. On Sunday last, Mr. Thomas of the Dry Committee informed one of our men, over the phone, that the contributions for the Dry Campaign Fund were coming in so fast from across the river that it was impossible for the Dry Committee to find time to acknowledge receipt of these contributions. ' Why these contributions from the merchants across the river? Can it be that they feel the trade slipping from them? The Drys may shout from every rostrum in Omaha and use every means of publicity available, but they will never change the fact that five out of every ten automobiles that are parked on the down-town streets of Omaha bear the lowa license tag. Any sane, fair-minded, level-headed resident of Omaha can readily see that at the present time we are enjoying more trade from the state of Iowa than we did before lowa adopted prohibition. Our automobile argument will surely bear us out in this contention. Fellow merchants, professional men, laboring men and citizens of Omaha, the proof of our statement in regard to lowa rests with the lowa license tag Will You Sanction a Destructive Policy ? In previous paragraphs in this article, and in previous publicity matter we have cited the citizens of Omaha to the fact that they are enjoying the trade that the lowa merchants formerly had before adopting prohibition. Can you, Mr. Merchant with this glaring example staring you in the face, support a destructive policy, such as the prohibitionists are en- deavoring to thrust upon the citizens of Omaha? You know that men love liberty. You know that if this city adopts prohibition that the cattle men from the West will not bring their stock to this market, but will go to a city where they can enjoy the liberty which prohibitionists wish to deny them here. This is no idle talk, it is a commonsense argument. The trade that you are enjoying at present from the state of Nebraska and the state of lowa (which you have gained in the last nine months), will be diverted to other cities should prohibition go into effect. Itis a well known fact that the horse of the farmer who lives half way between a licensed town and a prohibition town knows which way to turn just as soon as he leaves the barn- yard gate. If youare not aware of this statement, ask the merchants. The above is the sole reason for the merchants of Council Bluffs contributing to the Dry Campaign. In this article we are not appealing to your EMOTIONS, but to your good, sound judgment. We Ask You to Think It Over