Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Prohibition Not a Moral Issue By James C. Kelly Prohibition promises improved morals. It agrees to promote temperance, but right here in Indiana where it is being tried it fyas failed to live up to its contract. Our so-called “dry” cities not only do not compare favorably with our license cities, but on the other hand, official figures prove that the license cities are about one-half as immoral or as intemperate in the use of liquors as the “dry’* communities. To prove this contention I have selected twelve county seat towns, none of them having a population of over 10,000 or less than 6,000. Six of these cities were “dry” and six of them had the license system in 1913. Any one of them is typical of the Indiana county seat city. I have taken from the report of the State Statistician for the year 1913 the total number of arrests for misdemeanors or crimes in the courts of these cities and also the total number of arrests for intoxication. Further, in order to base the comparison upon the exact population, I have calculated the number of arrests for intoxication to each 1,000 inhabitants in these cities. The following figures are official and speak for themselves: SIX ‘-DRY” CITIES 1913 „ , . Arrests for No. Arrests for “opulatioo Total Arrests Intoxication Intoxication to 1910 1913 1913 each 1.000 Pop. Bloomington 8838 273 160 18.1 Bedford ..8716 279 164 18.8 Crawfordsville .9371 250 157 16.8 Frankfort.™B634 220 56 - 6.5 Princet0n........................6448 143 57 8.8 Wabash ™™™............8687 167 100 11.5 Totals .50694 1332 694 80.5 Average number arrests for intoxication to each 1,000 p0pu1ati0n.....13.4 \'A '. . * / SIX LICENSE CITIES 1913 - ' ■ ■ Arrestsfor No. Arrests for Population Total Arrests Intoxication Intoxication to 1910 1913 1913 each 1,000 PopBrazil_934o 140 49 5.2 C01umbu5............8813 300 124 14.1 Connersville.773B 119 87 11.2 Hartford City.'6lß7- 42 19 3.1 Valparaiso.69B7 38 23 3.3 Wa5hingt0n................... 7854 221 91 11.6 Totals ...46919 ’ 860 393 48.5 Average number of arrests for intoxication to each 1,000 p0pu1ati0n.........8.1 If prohibition is a moral proposition, why are the city courts of Bloomington, Bedford and other “dry” cities almost twice as busy as those of the license cities mentioned above? If prohibition means temperance, why were there 694 cases of intoxication in these six “dry” cities and only 393 in the license cities. Prohibition may be an experiment, but Indiana cities can profitably examine the result in communities where it is being tried before submitting to the professional reformers who would force it upon them. —Adv. Note: Figures quoted above taken from the official report ofthe Indiana Department of Statistics.

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