Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1891-06-06
BOOMING REAL ESTATE.
Business Proof Of the Benefits OF Pro-
hibition-

hibition-
A real estate prospectus and adver-
Using pamphlet is not likely to be
fanatically instigated, and cannot be
expected to indulge in sentimental
moralizing. The following extract is
from a pamphlet entitled Topeka
and its advantages, and intended to
bring that city to the favorable notice
of capitalists:
Topeka has not saloon or drink
place, and probably this cannot be
said Of another city in the Union hav-
ing as large population Four years
ago there were 140 saloons in the city
doing a fiourishing business. 1t was
claimed that it would be impossible 30
clean them out entirely, but
crusade was inaugurated against
them by the county officials which, in
less than one year, closed up every
drinking place in the city. There has
been a very noticeable decrease in the
amount of crime since the law went
into effect. Though the city has
doubled in population, the number OF
arrests by the police is not az great as
when the saloons were open Persons
who were violently opposed to the
prohibitory law now admit that it has
been a blessing to the city. Speak
ing Of the closing Of the saloons,
County Attorney Curtis said recently !:
At one time there were 40 saloons
open in Topeka; their average sales
per day were not less than go each,
which would make $500 spent daily
for liquor; this amount came largely
from the working people; to-day there
is not one dollar Of that amount spent
for whiskey. Where does it go? 1t
goes for food and clothing for chill
dren and wife. I know Of scores of
instances where families were suffer-
ing for food because the father gave his
wages to the saloonkeeper. Now
they are living in a cosy home of their
own; they have all the necessities of
life, and indeed a few Of the Injuries;
the children who were once poverty
stricken and living in rags are now
attending the public schools and the
father will tell you that he is the hap
pest man in the State and that pro-
hibition rescued him."
Hon. s. b. Bradford, Attorney Gen.
eral of this State. in a recent address
on Prohibition said: I'm Oregon, dur
ing their recent contest there on the
subject of Prohibition, it was stated
by those who were opposed to the
amendment in that State that Kansas
was being depopulated; that crime
and pauperism were on the increase !;
when the truth is that Kansas was
never as prosperous since it was made
State; that there was never as little
crime in proportion to the popu-
lation as now; and that pauper-
ism has materially decreased. The
growth Of Kansas is phenomenal,
and not only the growth Of Kansas in
point OF numbers, but In wealth, in in
telligenee, in the sobriety of her peo-
pie, is also phenomenal Let the cas-
ual observer and old resident Of the
State look about him, and within his
range of observation he can find men
by the score who can say to-day,
truthfully, that they have not touched
dram of liquor for two, three and
| four years, who. before Prohibition
took effect, were constant so-called
moderate drinkers. Public men who
are the worse for drinking intoxicat-
ing liquors are practically unknown
in Kansas. 1t is true, occasionally
there is a man who has forgotten him.
self, with whom the use OF intoxicat-
ing liquors is disease, but they are
scarce, -asss&- such men. <eh~r W DO
1 comes known TO the pubic that they
are in that condition, receive no par
ticular favor at the hands Of the
electors. / find from thorough inves-
| tigation that the enforcement of the
law has had a very beneficial effect
upon pauperism, and it 10 safe to say
that, notwithstanding the fact that
the large towns in Kansas have in
creased in population very rapidly,
and thus increased the percentage Of
pauperism-beeause in all densely-
populated communities there is a
greater percentage Of pauperism than
| in the rural districts-that, notwith-
standing these facts, there is a de-
crease of pauperism in Kansas Of al
most fifty per cent.