M. C. W by M. C. W.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 27, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 42.

M. C. W

By M. C. W.

California's Crime Bill — $29,000,000

THAT is what crime cost California in 1912, according to the statistician Hammond, after an exhaustive study of the records of the state and those of every county and city in the state. The cost of crime in officially paid expense in California in 1912 was $37,153,471. Judicial and penal authorities charge to alcohol eighty per cent of crime. Some place it a little less, some more. The indirect cost, added to this, would greatly enlarge it. Do California voters desire to continue to pay nearly $30,000,000 for crime directly, perhaps twice that indirectly? That is double the amount of the products of all the wines of the state. Vote it out.