Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-08-05
Senator ingalls, on prohibition and
License"

Few men in congress of late years
have won the reputation attained by
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas for the
bold and striking expression of his
views. As the possessor of a rich
and finished diction he reminds one
of the late Senator Conkling, while
in originality he is more sui genertS
than any other member in the senate.
AS clean and hungry as Cassius,
Senator Ingalls, is man of thought
as well as diction, land he illumlnes as
well as adorns every subject that he
handles.
In the August Forum Senator In
gals has timely contribution on
"Prohibition and License" The ar
ticle particularly discusses the situa-
ton in Kansas, and is the first au-
thoritative and comprehensive state
ment of the issue and the facts that
has yet appeared. In presenting this
statement, Senator Ingalls, has done
a high service to truth. Not since
the worst of the ante-bellum cam
paigns was there ever such gigantic
and shameless lying as accompanied
the campaigns in all the states over
constitutional prohibition. The lies
told about prohibition in Kansas del
uged the country as resistlessly as
the flood poured through Johnstown.
The public was deceived and disaster
was inevitable. A victory thus won
amounts to nothing and is temporary.
The truth comes uppermost in due
time. Here we have it in regard to
Kansas, as pointed and luminous as
Jupiter appears in the waste of stars
about him on these July nights.
"Kansas," he says, ''has abolished
the saloon. The open dram shop is
as extinct as the sale of indulgences.
A drunkard is phenomenon. The
bar-keeper has joined the troubadour
the crusader and the mound-builder
The brewery, the distillery, and the
bonded warehouse are known only te
the Archaeological"
What are the results? Senator In
gals states them in a nutshell. Here
they are:
'sThe habit of drinking is dying
out
s'The young and the infirm have
been fortified and redeemed"
ssThe consumption of intoXicants
has enormously decreased. 1t cal
not be less than IS per cent
The places where liquor is sold, lie
gally or illegally, have been reduced
from one for every GA of the entire
population In 1880 to one for ever.
1920 in 1885,"
s'The prognosticatlon of disaster
so freely expressed at the outset, ,hav'
all been navigated. The gain in pop
ulation since 1880 has not been les
than 100000. The amount of agri
cultural products and live stock, tn
assessed value of property, the mile
) age of railroads, the number of cult
/ waited farms, of newspapers, OF school
, houses, of churches, have proper
! tionately increased
+ ssObservation of the results OF II
: cense, both in this country and Il
, Great Britain, leads irresistibly t
I the conclusion that it is not success
full as a means of overcoming tn
: evils of intemperance. Nothing cal
= be said in favor of the saloon, wheth
er licensed or unlicensed. To rails
revenue by authorizing the sale o
J. that which lebases and pauperize
e the people, is both Improbable an
: immoral, and therefore indefensible.
ssFrom comparison of the result
T in Kansas with those existing else
q q where, the conclusion is irrisistibl
= in favor of prohibition. 1t can b
), efficiently and successfully enforced
g It does not retard the growth nor in