A Fallacy Exposed

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 27, 1915

A Fallacy Exposed

The accompanying diagram made from the annual reports of 193 large cities, and furnished by the Yale University, exposes the claim that saloons pay the larger part of our city expenses.

Note that the saloons of these 193 cities, with a total population of 28,500,000, paid only one forty-second of the total receipts, whereas the undesirable product of their existence forced an expense of more than double the amount in money they paid the cities in licenses, besides the wreck and ruin they produced in human life.

The Instructor Temperance Annual maintains that saloons would still be debtors to communities were they forced to pay every dollar of the municipal taxes; and, that the only reasonable way to deal with them is to CLOSE THEM FOREVER.