Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-10-13

seven counties are without a single il
mate. Prohibition in Kansas prohibit
more than 95 per cent" That is nc
quite failure aod would be great i'm
provement for Morrow county. "The
ere voters in Kansas who haye neve
they were born ard now live and il
whose minds liquor selling is classed il
the same category ss stealing or an.
similar crime" writes a Kansas gentle
man. AS the law is enforced in Kansas
it amounts TO local option, for there are
probably thirty towns in the state where
local sentiment governs the people
rather than the law. There are 734
newspapers in Kansas whose columns
are not stultified with liquor advertise
ments. How many IN Oregon?
A writer from Kansas City said | st
year: "But today the people of Kansas
are better clothed, fed, live in better
houses, have better laws, roads and
state institutions, with $50 100000 de.
posts in the banks of the state"
One other item regarding Kansas.
The town of Hutchinson has a popula
ton of 10000 or more. Illegal saloons,
or "joints," were tolerated for several
years. Recently a reform mayor was
elected who has enforced the law. Re
suits; The floating debt has been re-
duced the street furd has changed
from deficit of $4,000 to surplus of
$4,000, the general fund from $l5 ,0O0 de-
ticlt to $4,000 deficit Before the eec
ton of this reform MAYOR shout two
years ago the city depended upon it's
"ioint' money and ran behind, now not
cent OF Joint" money is col ected and
the city has surplus. Does prohibi-
ton pay even in Kansas? Upon the
criminal docket there is scarcely any-
thing. The cost now for Hutchinson's
criminals is about $500 for two years
against from 5000 to $4,000 for the
same length of time while "jolnts'
were tolerated. Does prohibition sue
coed in Hutchinson?
Now as to Maine. Before she had
she had no money in her
saving banks. Now under prohibition
she has $4,000, coo. Illinois with her
whskey and several times more popu-
Ation has $2,0OO,000 less deposits.
Ohio with sixteen times the population
has her whskey nnd $22 ,00l 900 less
deposits. In other words, Maine has
n her savings banks 1922 for each in
labtant, while Illinois has only SIS 43
> .r capita and Onio only $l0.71. Now
9 to pauperism compare Maine with
he same whiskey states. Since the
Prohibition law was passed pauperism
decreased in Maine 245 per cent. In
illinois pauperism increased during the
anne time 176 per cent. In Ohio pau
,ersm increased 1873 per cent. AS to
rime any one cah easily guess, but IN
S9S there were only 13 prisoners for I
{, 900 white people. @
Here is another comparison for you.
[aine, a prohibition state, has 257 con-
cts per 100000 inhabitants, while
slfornia, our neighbor, with her wine
Id other liquors hae 1893 convicts per
OOO, 900 population. Is prohibition
iluye in Maine? Whiskey is run in
lnder the disguise OF mercnahuise. i
nd sometimes the deputy sheriff does
9 duty in running in upon some such
olation of the law as for instance in J.
Ingnr. Maine, in August "a out OF 80 VI
the Questionable resorts were raided,
1T merchandise seized, and the -
oprietors arrested. Each violation VI
8 fined 800 and costs and confined = -
Jail tor 60 days. "Blind pigs" are of
netimes caught. They are easily -
ght when people want to catch =
m.
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