The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-06

have them paid for, or nearly y, With
the money they would have squandercds
for whiskyif we had the open saloons as
formerly. AFo have not had an open sa.
loon where liquor was sod by the drink,
except during the timc when the O. r.
the State for o few weeks, for
years, and as q r suit Of prohibition we
have the most orderly city OF It's size in
the wOrld.n
GooD-BY TO GAMBLERS, THUGS, AND o
PADS.
L. e. Bowman e. CO.., Real Estate
Loans, Topeka, Kan: sProhibition In
Kansas, which has been effective, prac-
.tical prohibition for seven years, aias had
as M with and is carried on by the
tough or sporting element, Those who
were formerly engaged in the liquor BUSH
ness were obliged to leave the State or
take up some other occupation. and most
of them preferred to leaye. With them
went the gamblers, thugs, fGotpads, and
tho greater proportion of what might be
termed our lawless clement. Their
places have since been filed by a sober,
industrious class, seeking tho ~clcanly,
wholesome spirit of Kansas as the best
location for a home. During the reign of
prohibition in Kansas VIC have seen the
most prosperous period of her history"
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE GEO. LES
Geo. Leis, President of the Geo. Leis
Drug Company, member of the Exam
lining Board Of Pharmacy, State Uni
yersity, Lawrence, Kan: II am not
exactly what you would call a prohib:.-
zionist, and may not be able to meet
your views or what you may desire, but
In reply would say: 1t is my opinion, with
my experience in this grand State the
past thirty-livc years, that prohibition,
or, In other words, the abolition of the
open saloon, is q godsend and a. blessing
indeed bestowed upon the good citizens
OF this State. To prove this, the many
storerooms which were empty ut one.
time as the result of prohibition are now
filled up with stocks of merchandise, and
are doing a good business. The farmers
come to our city with a load of produce
and return home to their families and
children with a stock of groceries, cloth
ing. etc, or the cash in hand, sober,
good-natured, and with a kind word for
their wives, which did not always exist
under the open saloon. Ask the farmers
who are thrifty and in good circum-
stances, and they will say, Away with
the open sa DON. Prohibition C rtainly
tends to the turning of money into lcgit-
innate lines OF trade, thereby banefiting
all classes, directly or indirectly, and cS
t%abliShing sobriety, Christianity, and,
indeed, a civilization, without which
there can be but little prosperity"
BANhER BONEBRAKE TALKS.
z. j. ~Bonebrake, President of Central
National Bank, Topeka, Kan: 81 be-
came a resident of Kansas before it was
a State, and have been a resident eve
since. was a State officer some Yeas.
Chairman OF the Republican State Cen
trail Committc: four years during pro.
hibition pcriod), and claim to know Kan
sas as well as any man in it. The pro-
hibition period, 1882 to the present time,
has been the most pro spcrous in the hi>-
tory OF the State. The population has
increased in the last decade 80 per cent,
only exceeded by Colorado, Nebraska
and Minnesota, new States, whe:e the
public lands could be had by home
steaders"
II VIEWS OF BANKERS KNOX & co.
John d. Knox & Co., investment bank
ers, Topeka, Kan: ".5ome tell us that
prohibition keeps emigration from com.
ing to Kansas, but Kansas has increased
in population during the past ten years
more than any other State west of the
Mississippi. When we come to material
prosperity VIC have no reason to be
ashamed of Kansas when compared with
higli-license Nebraska. In 1880 Ncbra ka
had $50, 499, 618 assessed valuation, whit.
Kansas had S16O, SO ,761. Now Kansas
LnS IN. - sod = Fl - ESQ -
years $500, 234,3l2, and Nebraska under
license 500, 263, $40. The difference III
favor of Kansas being SlO7, $40, 39l.
Nebraska 0 reports for taxation
$lS2, 763, $50. Take that amount from
$500, 234, 312 leaves a balance of Sl7,47l..
l29, so that Kansas has increased in tax.
able property this amount beyond all
that Nebraska now reports for nation.
Kansas reporting for the entire stat,
nearly 1851 ,O0O,COl.
real. ESTATE AMI PROHIBITION.
L. II. Elliott, General Land Agency,
Manliattan, Kan: II have been con.
%tinuously for twenty-five years in the
real estate business in this city. Proba.
bly, no other line of business so promptly
feels the lack of prosperity among the
people as does the business of real cs.
tatc. Tho most prosperous time l have
! had in my business has been during the
decade just c~losir-- Singulary enough.
! these years col - nd almost exactly
with the years oil ohibition. l do not
credit all the advantage my business ha
received to prohibition, but | do believe
that prohibition has been the induccment
that has brought many families into the
State, who otherwise might have gone to
Nebraska, where even better Induce
ments of cheap lands have been offered
for a few years past than we have been
able to offer here.n