Do You Know?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 27, 1908

Do you know that according to the most conservative estimates, over fifty per cent of the crimes and a large per cent of the insanity and poverty are due to the use of alcoholic liquors?

Few judges, officials of penitentiaries, prison inspectors, etc., place the proportion at less than seventy-five per cent, while most place it between eighty and ninety per cent.

Do you know that saloons not only do not decrease our taxes, but greatly increase them?

Do you know that the testimony of business men in prohibition towns and cities is almost universally that the closing of the saloons has helped business?

Do you know that prohibition increases real estate values?

“Instead of being a detriment as some persons thought, prohibition has proved a help to real estate values in Kansas City, Kan.”—Report of Committee to Oklahoma City Real Estate Exchange after personal investigations of conditions in Kansas City, Kan.

Do you know that almost two thirds of our territory is now (December, 1907) under prohibitory law either through State prohibition or local option?

Do you know that California has almost two hundred towns and cities under prohibition?

Do you know that according to the official statistics of the Census Bureau given out on Oct. 25, 1900, the average gain in population of our whole State was not twenty-three per cent, but that the average gain of prohibition cities was over ninety per cent?

Do you know that the United States Supreme Court has declared “that the statistics of every State show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these liquor saloons than to any other source”? and that “no legislature can bargain away the public health or the public morals; the people themselves can not do it, much less their representatives”?

Do you know that the curse of God rests upon the legalization of the liquor traffic?

“Woe unto them . . . which justify the wicked for a reward.” Isa. 5: 22, 23. “Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!” Hab. 2: 12.

In view of these facts, is it right, is it sensible, is it businesslike, to legalize the liquor traffic?—Golden Gate Temperance League, San Francisco, Cal.