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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1914)
oiinoox city enterpkihk, Friday, orrro.iKu 2:1. wu. either Booze Puts Business on the Minis, or Business Puts Booze on the Blink. The Same Dollar Can't Serve Both at the Same Time. "How Prohibition Killed Oregon City!" 75 more children are in her school than Iat year. $51,079.43 more in one savings bank than last year. Under the open saloon we went into the hole and never knew it until we had sobered up. Oregon City feel the world-wide hard time les than any of her "wet" neighbors. More men for population have work than in "wet" Port land. Business is better than in Portland with 400 saloons. WHATS GOOD FOR OREGON CITY IS GOOD FOR OREGON. Mark your ballot 332 X Yes THAT $300,000 LICENSE! State and County taxes in Kansas are 10 mills. State and County taxes in Oregon are 20 mills. Our prisons, courts, asylums, poor farms, and paupers cost us over $2,000,000 per year. The heads of our state institutions say that over 00 per cent of this is directly due to drink. Drink causes $1,200,000 taxe. Licenses pay $300,000, the TAXPAYER pays $900,000 balance. That's why you pay 20 mills while the Kansas man only pays 10. Vote 332 X Yes and Reduce Taxes Hillsboro "Hard Hit by Prohibition" Five buildings were left vacant when Hillsboro went dry. One is .now a hardware store. One is a shoe store. One is a dry-goods store. One is a meat market A big bake-shop is going into the last one. $1.00 spent in booze pays the worklngman 7 centf, and the farmer 10 cents. $1.00 spent for bread pays the worklngman 16 cents, and the farmer 37 cents. WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE AROUND? i WOMEN! "THE saloon has been, for genera tions, the persistent and peculiar foe of women; it has defiled, insulted and shamed her; it has pauperized and ruined her home; it has blighted her fondest hopes, trampled upon her most sacred affections, and one of her first acts under enfranchise ment is to crush it beneath her heel. Did You Ever Hear That Rich Kansas is crying for help? Maine is suffering for revenue? North Dakota is puzzled about re sources? Tennessee is passing the hat? West Virginia frets for her lost license fees? FACTS INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK shows thai Kan sas closed last year with $1,289,209 In her treasury, and but $370,000 bonded Indebtedness. Missouri closed hers with $537,829 In treasury, ana a bonded debt of $4,398,839. Oregon City Commercial Club in 1912 Advertised our High School, our fine climate, our splendid citizenship, our rich soil, our luscious fruits, our rich harvests. Why Did They Not Advertise the Fifteen Saloons? Maine farmers are the RICHEST in NEW ENGLAND. Since going dry property values in North Dakota have increased 1,000 per cent. Tennessee was never so prosperous. Thousands of factories are locating in West Virginia. We Challenge Anyone to Show a State That Was Ever Hurt by Going Dry ! Will someone tell any good thing the Saloon ever does for a community anyway, that we should vote for it ? Does it feed the hungry, or do the churches do that for it? Does it help the widow and the fatherless, or does it leave that to the lodge? Does it make homes happier? "Hearts lighter?" Business concerns wealthier? It does exactly the opposite VOTE 332 X YESI Why then should we vote tor it . Paid Advertisement by Committee of One Hundred, Oregon City, Oregon.