The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-14
w. c. T. U. DEPARTMENT
For GOD and Uome md Natics Lend.

II or GOU NHu I1oWe ana NHtSC6 LSh~.
Effective prohibition in Kansan has
not operated to the injury of business.
Governor Humphrey. i'll a letter writ
ten last month, declared that since
prohibition was enacted, the state has
in wealth and population
and prosperity In five years the state
has increased its population by one
half of five millions, how having 1,5OO.
W0. This growth has not been i'll rur-
al districts simply, but particularly i'll
towns and cities. 1880 there We're only
six cities having population OF over
5000; in 1856 there were twelve. In
1880 there were only fifty-fve towns
and cities havinga population exceed
ing LOCO; in 1886 there were ninety
one. In 1880 the farms of Kansas
were valued at 1926, us, 1886, and their
prodeets for that year were $S4, 521
4S6; in 1885 the farms had increased
in value to $4O8,O73,454, and the value
of their products that year was S143,
SIT, OlS. In the same period the num-
of churches were almost doubld, the
OF school houses was increas-
ed, and there were mauy other evil
dences that the destruction of the sal
Don business adds nightly to the
prosperity of state. In no other state
in the country has prohibition more
proved its mighty power to
grapple and overthrow the giant evil
of the rum traffic. Kansas, more than
any other state, defies the most des-
perate attempt of the enemies of pro-
hibition to prove that prohibition does
not prohibit, that it is a synonym for
free rum, and that wheeever it is tried
it deplesses business and checks pros
perity.-New York Independent.
The Central Christian Advocate ex-
plains why the House Committee re-
fused to report the Wilson "Original
package" bill, which had passed the
Senate, but prepared a substitute
which at this writing is in state of
suspended animation. The Senate bill
came out fiat footed and forbade the
introduction of liquors from abroad in
violation of State laws, but the House
Judiciary Committee determined that
no expression of opinion should be
made by the House in regard to the
question of prohibiting the sale of in
to1icating liquors. And so under the
spicious plea of preparing a bill of
wider application that that of the Sen
ate, one which will cover all possible
cases of conflict between State and
Federal authorities, the committee Of
fer substitute for the Senate bill,
which Provides that all articles brought
into State shall be subject to it's laws
when offered for sale. The substitute,
says the Advocate, "bears a striking
resemblance to The ordinary non-com-
initial political platform, and enables
the members of the House who are
candidates for reelection this fall to
solemnly declare that they have made
no declaration against liquor-selling
or for prohibition. They hope by this
adroit exhibition of larger statesman
ship than was displayed in the Senate
to assure the dram-shop and saloon
keepers that they haze wisely cared
for their interests, which seem always
uppermost in the thoughts of the Or
binary congressman" -Christ'n Evan
glist.
We have spoken OF the readiness of
the political press of Nebraska to suf-
the whisky men to edit their columns
during the amendment campaign at
SO much line. Another illustration of
the tricks of the enemy is. seen in an
item which is going the rounds of the
daily papers to the following effect
''The State Association of Business
Men and Bankers of Nebraska, on
Saturday, published an address de-
claring that lin view of the results ap-
parent from the attempts heretofore
made to enforce prohibition in neigh
boring States, the incorporation OF
such an amendment in the Constitu-
ton of Nebraska will be inimical to
the best interests of the State and dis
astrous to businessmen The address
is signed by over a thousand bankers
and business men in the principal
towns in the State" The facts are
that their has been no such association
as the described. The names were Sc
secured by E. P. Roggen, of Lincoln
an ex-saloon keeper, and Edward Rose
water, editor of the Omaha Bee, an
ultra pro-whisky journal. The crea-
tors of the estate Association of Bust
ness Men and Bankers of Nebraska
are challenged to give the names Of
ten respectable bankers or business
men, or of others who have signed the
address, who are not directly interest.
ed in the liquor traffic.-Christ'n Evan.
gelist.
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