Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-27
CAMPAIGN or MENDA CITY And
SIANnER

l vi liott tlllo NlbN arc ItN lllllE tNcIlD DDuJ
that dares to differ with them and i'm
posing upon credulOus followers the
most br&en falsehoods. Every issue Of
the prohibition press has been tecming
with libelOus assaults on men and
statistics fabricated by unprinci-
pied imposters who have shown
themselves adopts in forging names
and falsifying official records. The
most audacious OF the m crccnary cham
pions OF prohibition is the New Y ori
! otce. It's principal stock in trade in
the present campaign has been forged
letters and fraudulent statistics.
In one OF its latest numbers it at
tcmpts to contradict the assertion made
| by the editor OF THE BEE at the Bea-
trice Chautauqua that the proportion
Of criminals in Kansas and Iowa is much
| greater than in Nebraska. To bolster
up its contradiction the Voice makes the
| following com parison between the u-
vcnile criminals of Kansas and Ne
| braska:
Kansas and Nebraska have reform sch oOls
for boys Both were started about the same
time and are run upon essentially the same
plan. Nebraska's reform school has 24o in
mates, while in Kansas we have only Ia If
Kansas had as many as Nebraska in proper
ton to her population there would be 392
boys instead of l1L Taking Nebraska as an
example, we lack 2lS boys of having our
share.
Where are these missing boys9 On the
farm, in the store and shop and in the school,
growing up to manhood without personal
knowledge ofwhat Il saloon s.n
Now what are the factsg The board of
trustees OF the state charitable
institutions of Kansas for 1888
gives the total number of boys
remaining in the school on June
30, 1888, as two hundred and nineteen,
and the board calls attention to the fact
that owing to the want Of room all in
cOmigiblc boys are excluded.
The present condition of the Kansas
reform school is briefly reported in the
following letter:
NoKrn TomKA, Kan, July 16 1884, Dear
SIR We have 90 boys in the reform school
There is a separate school for girls, and there
are probably about thirty-sX or thirty eight
girls in it.
Our last legislature gave us small ap
Precipitation for maintenance and those who
had been committed for incorrirbility were
discharged; Respectful yours,
l'R a. L. BUCK, Sup21n tendent
The following letter exhibits the con-
dition Of the Nebraska reform school:
KEARNEY, Neb., July 10 1Sgl-Dear Sir.
Number OF boys received during past
hVe years .....-.,.... ..............,,....3o 800
Numberof girls. ."....".. ."........ ..... lO7
Total ....... ,......... ................. 456
Numberof boys discharged and hardened. 255
NumDerot girls discharged and pardoned. ~
=, Total ..".; ;............ 27s
Number or girls In attend ance at present. 50
>, Total. ..." ........ .,,...............25o 25o
We have accommod atoms for about forty
hVe more boys. Very respectfully,
JoHNP MALLILIEU, Su perrin tendent.
Mark the ingenious imposture of the
Do'ce. While the girls in the Kansas
relormatory are entirely omitted from
the count, the eighty girls in the Ne
braskareform school are represented as
boys. Kansas has discharged all her in
corrigible boys who constitute very
great percentage of the class usual V ad-
mitted into reform schools, and allows
them to run at large. Nebraska
takes in all the incorngible
both male and female, while
Kansas only admits those convicted of
crime. And yet Kansas has one hundred
and ninety boys in her reform school as
against one hundred and seventy in Ne
braslla The large cities usually furnish
most Of thewayward and criminal classes
ofjuveniles. The largest city in Kansas
has not as much population as Lincoln,
and but n little more than one-third of
the population of Omaha Nebraska
takes care of and educates all her bad
boys and girls, while Kansas leaves
them to roam about and drift into
the cesspOols of vice until they have
committed some felony that would place
them behind prison bars if they were OF
age. Where are those Kansas boys?
Not on tho farm or in the work shop, but
around tho dives and joints of Atchison,
Leavenworth and Topeka.
Another striking example OF shame.
less mendacityis produced in the same
number of the Voice, under the head of
''Canards About Des Moines," "Figure
Showing That Prohibition Has Not In.
creased County Expenses"
Stories are beng industriously circulated
through the liquor press about the great in.'l
crease of court expenses in Polk county this
year owing to prohibition. | have inter,
viewed the county auditor and am able to lay
before the readers Of the Vote some figures
which give the lie to this latest canard of the
anti-prohi btiousts. The following are the
figures of expenses covering the first five
months of the years 1889 and 1890:
Jail Expenses. 1850. 1890.
January ......,....,S 545 30 & SlS 30
February .,....... .... 493 80
March. .,....,,.. go so 06O 20