Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-11-07
not patronize It, and the vender is surely
caught and finds his way to jail.
SCoTT & BR1ER, Is
Bankers and BROKERS'.
A HOST OF TESTIMONY.

SCOTT u BRIER, d.
Bankers and Brokers.
A HOST OF TESTIMONY.
Representative Business Men from All
Parts of Kansas ON Prohibition.
Bion s. Hutchins, publisher Of the
Despatch, Clay Center, Kan.:, "Having
lived in Kansas sober since 1881, nine
years, and in Kansas drunk Tor the ten
years Immediately preceding that period,
think am in q position to institute
comparisons. am certain that one
little town afforded more drunkenness,
previous to the coming of Prohibition to
Kansas, in one week, than q dozen such
towns now display in a year. 1t is need
less to say to enlightened readers that
the social interests of the State have inn
proved university in proportion as the
sale OF liquor has decreased. AS for our
business interests, the sober period
marks not only the greatest boom that
Kansas has ever had, but our permanent
growth during the past ten years has
been phenomenal, even for this wonder
full State"
NOTHING EVER so BENEFITED THE La
BORING MAN.
E. Bennett & Son, Percheron, Clydes-
dale and coach horses, Topeka, Kansas:
"Nothing that has ever taken place has
so benefited the laboring men as we'll as
the business men of our State as prohi-
bition. Most all the laborers, .colored as
well as white, that used to spend their
money for drink before the prohibition
law took effect, have bought houses and
have them paid for, or nearly so, with
the money they would have squandercd
for whisky If we had the open saloon as
formerly. We have not had an open sa-
loon where liquor was sold by the, drink,
except during the time when the O. P.
overrun the State for q few weeks, for
years, and as q result of prohibition we
have the most orderly city Of its size in
the world"
GooD-BY TO GAMBLERS, THUGS, AND FOOT
PADS.
T. E. Bowman & Co., Real Estate
Loans, Topeka, Kan: "Prohibition in
Kansas, which has been effective, prac-
tfcal prohibition for seven years, has had
q tendency to drive away such business
as comes 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 leave. With them
went the gamblers. thugs, footpads, and
the greater proportion of what might be
termed our lawless element. Their
places have since been filled by sober,
Industrious class, seeking the clearly,
wholesome spirit of Kansas Us the best
location for q home. During the reign OF
prohibition in Kansas we have seen the
most prosperous period OF her history"
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE GEO. LEIs
DRUG co.
Geo. Leis. President of the Geo. Leis
Drug Company, member of the Exam
| ming Boald of Pharmacy, State Uni
versity, Lawrence, KAN: II am not
| exactly what You would call prOhib..
Zionist, and may not be able to meet
| your views or what you may desire, but
in reply would say: Its my opinion, with
my experience in this grand State the
past thirty-tive years, that prohibition
or. in other words, the abolition Of tho
open saloon, is o godsend and blessing
indeed bestowed upon the good citizens
of this State. To prove this, the man,
storerooms which were empty at on
time as the result of prohibition are nov
filled up with stocks of merchandise, ana
are doing q good business. The farmer!
come to our city with load of produc.
and return home to their families ant
children with stock of groceries, cloth
ing, etc, OF the cash in hand, sober
good-natured, and with kind word fol
their wives, which did not always exis
under the open saloon. Ask the farmers
who are thrifty and in good circum
stances, and they will say, Away will
the open saloon Prohibition certainly
tends to the turning of money into legit
innate lines OF trade, thereby beneftins
all classes, directly or indirectly, and es
tablishing sobriety, Christianity, and
indeed, a civilization, without which
there can be but little prosperity"
BANKER BONEBRAKE TALKS.
p. j. BOnebrake, President of Contra
National Bank, Topeka, Kan: 81 be
came q resident of Kansas before it wa!
a State, and have been resident eve1
since. was State officer some years
Chairman of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee four years during pro
hibition period), 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 prosperous in the his
tory of the State The population ha.
increased in the last decade SO per cent
only exceeded by Colorado, Nebrask;
and Minnesota. new States, where thu
public lands could be had by home
steaders."
THE VIEWS OF BANKERS KNOX co.
John ID. Knox & Co., investment bank
ers, Topeka, Kan: "Some tell us thai
prohibition keeps emigration. from com
ing to Kansas, but Kansas has increased
in population during the past ten year.
more than any other State west of the
Mississippi. When we come to materia
prosperity we have no reason to be
ashamed of Kansas when compared will
high-license Nebraska. In 1880 Nebrask;
had 800, 499, 61S assessed valuation, Will.
Kansas had S16O.57O, 7G1. Now Kansa:
has increased under prohibition in tel
years $500. 4,3122, and Nebraska under
license 500, s63.92 The difference il
favor of Kansas being $1O7, $40, 391
Nebraska now reports for taxation
$1s2, 7G3.5s3. Take that amount from
$500, 234.313 leaves balance of Ss17, All,
1870, so that Kansas has increased in tax
able property this amount beyond al
that Nebraska now reports for taxation
Kansas reporting for the entire Stat,
nearly 1851, 100000.
REAL. ESTATE AND PROHIBITION.
l.. r. Elliott, General Land Agency
Manhattan, Kan: 81 have been con
tnuously for twenty-five years in tn,
real estate business in this city. Proba
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