Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PROHIBITION IN CITIES By James C. Kelly Prohibitory laws, like other restrictive measures, are not effective where a large proportion of the people believe them unjust. Years of experiments in industrial centers, both large and small, have. proven the truth of this assertion. This may be a land of majority rule, but it is becoming more and more apparent that a bare majority cannot dictate the personal habits of a large minority of American citizens. Prohibition has never been enforced in a community, except spasmodically, to greater extent than it has the honest support of the people of the community. In other words, experience has shown that where local prohition has the support of fifty-one per cent, of the voters, it is never more than fiftyone per cent, enforceable, and it is usually less. Absolute prohibition might be a reality in a cross-roads village of fifty total abstainers, but in larger communities, especially industrial cities, the official records show that it has not only failed, but it has increased intemperance, the very condition it is recommended to cure. Marion, Indiana, is a city of approximately 20,000 population. It is an industrial community. With the exception of a few months, it has had local prohibition since 1909. Its people, as shown by many elections, are about evenly divided on the question of license or no-license. Marion was legally “dry” in 1914. During that year, however, it had a worse record for intemperance than Anderson, East Chicago, Hammond, Logansport, Michigan City and New Albany, all of them license cities of similar population and industrial interests. Official court statistics show the records of these cities for the year 1914 as follows: . . o 3 5 £J, 4 5- t ©3 --=« £-£2 *■3 ' Jz C s ■=• *3 c. 2 3 !J -a ? EH MARION (Dry). 19359 ’ 881 483 24.9 54?8* 13L Anderson 22476 802 349 15.5 43.5 22 East Chicagol9o9B 1394 388 20.3 27.8 17 Hammond2o92s 359 135 6.4 37 6 0 Logansport 19050 882 377 19.8 42.7 48 Michigan Cityl9o27 614 208 10.9 33.9 17 New Albany2o629 355 188 9.1 53.0 14 Figures quoted above from official reports of the city courts to the Indiana Department of Statistics. —Adv.

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