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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1274, 1 November 1911, Page 6

A STRONG INDICTMENT. WHAT PROHIBITION DOES. DEATHS INCREASE' UNDER PROHIBITION. THE writer's contention in those articles has been that Prohibition, so-called, is not a moral agent but tho reverse; that it is contrary in principle to religion; that it does not prohibit; that it is a destroying and corrupting agency; that' it tends to mako communities whitod sepulchres; that it is a policy of negation; that it stagnates irado and oommcrco; that it keeps down population; that' it lowers tho moral tono of a community; that it brings tho law into contempt; that it causes loss of rcreuuo without any benefit to off-set tho loss; that it deteriorates tho valuo of property and prevents expansion of business, aud causes individual and general loss. The subjoined statistics aro published by tho United States Census Bureau and show that thero is a higher death rato in prohibition than in licensed states. Tho following figures tell tho number, of deaths for each 100,000 of population for 1900 (tho last census)-.— PROHIBITION STATES. Maine 2.16 New Hampshire 2.18 Vermont 3.20 LICENSE STATES. Alabama M 0 Indiana 2.22 Kentucky 1-68 Missouri 1-70 Nebraska • 1-M North Carolina I.M Oregon 1-21 Texas 1-31 Tennessee • 1-M West Virginia 1.67 Tho average of deaths in tho Prohibition States is 2.41, and in the license States it is 1.03. Reference to the records of the United States Commissioner of Internal Rc-vonuo will show tho number of retail liquor liconses in the various States in tho following proportion to population in 1905: —■ PROHIBITION STATES. Kansas—One license for evory 428 of population. Maine—One license for ovary 661 of population. North Dakota—Ono licenso for ovory 142 of population. LICENSE STATES. Arkansas 1 for every 021 Alabama 1 for every 833 Delaware 1 for every 421 Florida 1 for every 566 Georgia 1 for every 1271 Kentucky 1 for every 491 Massachusetts 1 for every 588 Mississippi 1 for every 2913 Missouri 1 f° r every 305 Nebraska 1 for every 411 New Hampshire 1 for every 385 North Carolina 1 ior every 2200 Oklahoma 1 for every 350 South Dakota 1 for every 302 Xcsas 1 lor ovorv n - 7 Virginia 1 for every 791 Vermont 1 for every 070 West Virginia 1 for every 133 "FATAL INEBRIETY INCREASED." In the three Prohibition States named the average is one liquor dealer for every 428 of population, and in (ho 19 license States named tho average is one liquor dealer for

every Cll of population. According to these figures, if Kentucky should beccmo a Prohibition State there would bo • a liquor dealer for every 31G of population instead of ono for. every 494 of population, as under tho license system. Tho samo lav,- of proportion would incroaso tho death rate (from alcoholism) from I.GB to 2.4S for every 100,000 of population if Prohibition should bo adopted in Kentucky. The Government census reports show that in Iho licence Slates of Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, and West Virginia th'< death rat'o from alcoholism decreased 3!. per cent in the 20 years prior to IHOO Tho samo reports show that in the sanu period of time tho death rate from nleO' holism in tho Prohibition States incrms cd 03 pi\r cent'. Is it any wonder that Maine lias ra volled against Prohibition? Bad liquor, the sly grog-shop and the illicit trade* carried out the ideals of Prohibition with a vengeance. Prohibition is a destroying agency, and t'ho groat destroyer i., utilising his agents to establish it.in New Zealand. \Yc beliovc, however, that (he people will, by striking out the bot*«m lines on both ballot papers show tfcoy arc determined to linvo nothing to (If with thi6 life-destroying agency.

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