The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-05
Is Prohibition Injurious to the Social
Prosperity OF Kansass

Prosperity OF Kansass
The liquor dealers say that it is,
Newspapers under their control stir
up the feverish souls of decaying to-
pers TO clamor for the submission of
the Prohibitory Amendment to the
popular vote. Lying comes as natur-
ally to drunkards and drunkard-mak-
ers as drinking. They point to Leav-
enworth in proof of their claim. 1t
is true that the brewers have been
driven out Of it; and that brewing
and bottling employees have been O.
bliged to enter upon new occupations
or to seek the old ones elsewhere.
But brewers departed are no loss to a
community. Rats and mice don't add
to the value of farmers property,
neither do biped consumers Of the
Gambrinus kind add to the values
created by producers. The wild
statement that the city of Leaven-
worth has lost IA 900 people by the
enforcement of Prohibition is de-
nounced by some of its prominent
citizens as mendacious. 1t never had
more than 26,0e0 inhabitants, and at
least that number are said to be there
now. The census of school children
returns as many, and the City Direc-
tory contains as many names in 1889
as in any previous year. The asses
sor makes larger return of personal
property for taxation, many new build
ings have been erected, two new coal-
mines have been opened, and the num-
Der of banks has been doubled. If
this be sample of the ruin inflicted
by Prohibition, why-Leavehwort
can smilingly endure it.
But what of Kansas City, Mo-,
the paradise of the defamers; and the
pandemonium of the Prohihitionists !!
The Kansas City Times has been
malignant in assault on Prohibition
IN Kansas, and thereby provoked re-
taliation from the Topeka Daily Cap
ital, that speedily evoked supplicalion
for mercy. The latter estimated that
500 saloons in Kansas City, Mo-,
daily tilch $40 each from the earnings
of working-men, or $4,000 in all
every day Of the year. The result is
the stupendous total of $1,000, 900,
or $6,O0O,OOO as the Daily Capital
puts it, for the annual drink bill of a
city containing between Sl50, 900 and
$4,000 souls. Butchers, bakers,
grocers, tailors, merchants, and house
proprietors groan under the depletion
of losses through unpaid debts. Bus
mess, as logical consequence, does
not pay as it ought. On The 7th oi
July last there were said to be $50
empty houses, $500 vacant residen-
ces, and 1000 offices wanting renters
III Kansas City. Numbers OF busi-
ness men have departed for richer
fields of industry. Chattel mortga-
ges executed and filed by hundreds
every month, numerous foreclosure
suits, and 5000 men said to be stand
ing idle in the streets, and evidence
enough OF something ''rotten in the
state of Denmark. Toughs, va
grants, and libertines, OF course, are
plentiful. CrocodIles are most nu-
merous in dirty and stagnant waters.
Deduct from the force OF this rep
resentatlOn that OF The facts that Kan
sas City has been doomed" too
much that 1t has overbuilL and over
traded that it is as yet anead of the
needs of supporting territory that it
Is preparing for The manufacturing
crowds whom it diligently seeks to
attract, and enough remains to cut
deep The conclusion that the saloon
and its iniquity is bitter curse to So
ciety and deadly carbuncle to the
body polite.
The State of Kansas, under Pro-
hibition, rejoices in decrease of taxa
tion, many vacant poor-houses, cheap
er money, the best class of foreign
and domestic immigrants, and in the
finest cereal crops in the United
States. s.-Rev. Richard Wheatley, in
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