A PROHIBITION COUNTY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 16.

A PROHIBITION COUNTY.

ILLINOIS.—Edwards County has not had a saloon for five years. There is not an almshouse or "poor-farm" in the county, and the tax rate is less than in any other county in the state. There is $11,000 cash in the treasury. A new court-house has just been built and paid for. Not a criminal case has been tried for years. It is thirty years since the county has sent a man to the penitentiary. The many public improvements are derived from ordinary sources of revenue. Vermillion County, on the contrary, has over one hundred saloons, and, as a legitimate consequence, has a well-filled poorhouse, a crowded jail, an empty treasury, and debts. The asylums, reformatory, and penitentiary all come in for their share in the representation.—The Searchlight.