The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-06-23
DECLARES PROHIBITION PAYS
NATIONAL COMMITTEE MAKES
a STATEMENT.
Contrary Evidence Shows State
Prosperous

Prosperous
The prohibition national committee
is sending out the following state
ment this week from its headquarters
in Chicago:
| While Maine is doing things" to
her liquor outlaws the prohibition
states OF Kansas and North Dakota
greet the rest Of the country with
such unprecedented prosperity, rapid
| increase in population and remark
able activity in home, mercantile and
public building that the calamity
hOwlers who rail at prohibition as a
paralyzer Of business and a certain
denly lost their glibness OF tongue
while their threadbare predictions 90
whistling down the wind for future
generations to laugh at
Kansas bank deposits have passed
the S1OO,O 100000 mark" declares the
Kansas City Journal, OF Nay s, "ac-
cOrding to the report Of State Com
missioner Royce, issued yesterday
Proceeding, the Journal says:
"Of this amount $53,11O,828.41 is
held by $40 incorporated state banks,
twenty-five private. banks and one
trust company. The rest is held by
exchange has also increased $780,
600, making the average legal reserve
now carried SO 1-3 per cent Of the
entire deposit.
This is the high water mark for
Kansas bank deposits, and it is ma
tUral that it should be 50, for Kansas
broke all records last year and it will
break her own record this year in al
most every one Of the varied indus
tries that earn her annual income Of
considerably over S2OO,OOO.0O. d"
''T. B. GerOw, director Of the state
free employment bureau at Topeka,
estimates that at least 10000 men
from other states will be given en-
ployment to harvest the wheat crop.
Thousands Of these men will come
from New York and New England
to share in the profits Of the bOunti-
full harvest. .
1.-The Kansas farmer [ can af-
ford to employ others to do the
drudgery while he rides in his new
trap or automobile.
Under the big headlines Prosper
ity, in Kansas" and 'HOmeseekers
are Rushing Into Kansas" ETC., the
Topeka Daily Capital, May II, states
present conditions as follows:
so steadily are the settlers going
into western Kansas that in Thomas
county alone this year there will be
ten acres ployed and put into grain to
every one in its past history.
The future Of western Kansas new
er was brighter than it is now. It
has begun a new career. The work
on the farms is improving, and the
facilities that make the work easier
add something each year to the farm
er's success He has good roads,
rural delivery and a telephone in his
house that connects him with town,
and, whether he is five or twenty
miles away, his means for comfort
may be amply provided for by mod
ern inventions Of many kinds. The
schools are good, and towns Of any
size have well-eQuipped high schools.
for Kansas is one Of the states which
has never grudged money for educa-
ton, and her young people have Op-
pOrtunitiess equal to the communities
settled when Kansas was supposed
to be a wilderness and buffalo roamed
pied by wheat fields"
Bank reports show that there are
on deposit in the banks Of the state
S66 for every person in Kansas
The Grand Forks Herald, the lead
ing daily Of North Dakota, gives col
umns Of space to lists Of new build
ing operations throughout the state
and says in comment in a recent is
sue:
The present season promises to be
one Of the busiest Grand Forks con-
tractors have seen for many years,
and the same is true throughout the
state Since the middle Of March
nearly every contractor and builder
Of the city and state has been busy.
A large proportion Of the new build
ings are Of the smaller class Of dwell
ling homes and cottages. Many me-
chanics and labOring men who have
bought lots within the past year are
having erected medium cost dwell
lings and n many cases unpreten-
tiOus cottages. Throughout the state
there are many new public buildings,
churches, schools, etc, under con-
strUctfOn and projected"
Perhaps prohibition has little to
do with prosperity in Kansas and
North Dakota, but this is sure: If
prohibition were really the bugbear
and blight it is alleged to be there is
plenty Of territory in the great west
where settlers could 90 instead Of to
Kansas and North Dakota if they
chose to 90 so. Liquor men declared
that all the natural advantages Of
Kansas and North Dakota would
count for nothing II prohibition were
adopted Time has exploded that
SANDER.