Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-18
COMMUNICATIONS.
Prohibition Prohibits.


 To the Editor of the JOURNAL Ass COURIER:
 It is very simple thing for writer, sit- ting in sanotum in Providence or New Ha ven, to write it down, as If an accepted fact, that prohibition does not prohibit" Without reflection, readers accept the spacious dictum of the writer who states it as though he knew whereof he afirms. Laws against the sale of liquor are like laws against any crime. The law against hcen- tiousness docs not prohibit, in the sense of doing away with, licentiousness. The law against Sabbath breaking does not pre- vent all Sabbath violation. Even murder is committed in spite of law. Forgery is net unknown even when the sense of the com- munity is against it.
 There will be, more or less, the sale of lieuor in spite of any adverse law. But laws against the sale and manufacture of liquors are effective when such laws are en- acted and enforced. Their influence in re- ducing crime and saving expense to the State or town is proved to be genuine and power- ful.
 It is better on this subject, at this time, to take the testimony of men who know, rather than of men whs theorize or suppose.
 Kansas is prohibition state. On my table lies late issue of the Daily Capital of To- peka, in which the leading editorial is on ''Effects of Prohibition in Kansas" The testimony of the Capital is as reliable as that of the Palladium or the Register of our own city. I call attention to the words of the editor of the Topeka Daily Capital. He says: "Eight years ago the first day of last May, our prohibition amendment was put in force. And now there is no dram shop in Kansas. What a wonderful statement that is, and how proud every Kansan ought to be that it is true! There is no dram shop in Kansas. Men do get liquor here and men do get drunk here; so do men steal horses and burn houses. It would be easier to steal horse in Topeka to-day than to purchase glass of whiskey to drink" That Is straightforward, honest tes' knows what he is talking about. He haa watched the effects of prohibition for eight years.
 This editor further says: "The greatest, the best affect is the growing up of genera tion of boys and girls that know nothing about drinking saloons except what they heal or read or see in other States when they SC away. That insures generation of temper. l ate men and women if we do not let go our ! hold upon the law, and we will not" It was used as an argument against prohi bition in Kansas that 1t would hurt the | growth and prosperity of the State. Now 1 after eight years of trial, what does this Kan ! sas witness give us? He writes: "Next may ! be mentioned the steady increase in our pop ulation and wealth. It is sufficient to statt that during these eight years of prohibition our population increased seventy per cent
 and our wealth has nearly doubled. Oul
 railroad mileage now amounts to nearly nin thousand miles of main track, and most of was built since it became evident that prohi bition was and would remain the law in Kan | sas."
 This editor who writes from the data o
 facts under his own operation for eight year continues: "The moral and intelleotus tone of the people has been greatly improved as the decline of drunkenness, pauperisr
 and crime amply shows. The people of al
 Kansas Is better every way because of he prohibitory liquor law. She can show sut
 stantial gains in every department of he | work and growth, and she can show clea
 hands to her friends and fellows in othe
 States and countries when she invites ther
 three-quarters of bright, enterprising, pro
 gressive people with soil and climate unsul
 passed, with diminishing taxation, dimir ishing crime, multiplying educational oppo
 tunities, but no dram shops."
 The testimony of this witness is poten honest, unimpeaohable. We can build upo , 1t. It ought to help us in the contest whie | Huence voter in favor of prohibition. : There is no doubt that prohibition prohi 1 it's in Kansas. Is there any reSson why , l cannot prohibit in Connecticuta Do we n
 need to have taxation and crime, the woe drunkards' families, the spelling of our be - young men diminishedi Do we not desi 7 the prosperity and happiness which previ in communities in which there is no dra
 shops BuRDETT HART. Some words Of Wisdom. e To tho Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: f There are many things at the present ti, Il that demand the attention of tho public, l. order that, as a successful, prosperous p' !. pie, we may be able to continue on in pr t perity.
 d In the first place temperance and religi n 1 are the corner stones of our superstructu ID prosperity. But, passing these by for 'e present, it Is not difficult to see cause i, @ fear. Capital and business men are looki
 | South and west, and we well understand tl '~ manufacturing is the life. of New Englar h but, as other fields offer more inducemen ,e it must be expected that there will contin 20 to be more and more withdrawing of ms
 ufacturing interests from our State. This
 being brought about partly to save transpt
 tation, and partly on account of encoura te ments held out as inducements for the lo l. tion of manufacturers in other States of 1 Union. Manufacturing in New Engla 10 probably has not paid for the last Ave ye r. three per cent. on the investments, and ,n the present prospects we may expecu l tv rather than more. The growing extra :. oanoe in the government of our city a n' town, in offices, in all departments, is fe he full. Even in the education of the childl G. we may expect soon that measures will nd taken to raise the standard of education
 such height as to entirely unfit the risi o- generation for any practical work to ben' Id nankind, as manufacturers. A man to D ht successful manufacturer must begin yot