Arizona republican., 1908-04-20
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in the union. 1t spends more money for education than any other state in proportion to its population. 1t pub fishes sons 9o5 newspaper publica- ticns, including dailies, weekIies, monthlies, etc. Out of that number only twenty ever publish any liquor advert sen1ents, and four of the twenty are printed in the German language. It is not necessary to enlarge on the moral and religious uplift to a com munity which is made possible by the absence of an institution which as his tory is being written has degraded the human race and brought it down to the brute more than any other one thing known to men. 1t IS a source of constant marvel that any Christian community can endure without con- stant and practical protest business which has not one single good thinq to its credit; which has centuries of ruin, and dishonor, and shame, and broken hearts, and broken homes. and d"arfed and pinehed and starved chi- dren, and bruised motherhood and witehood laid at its feet and piled up high as an offering of the devil to one ot the greatest passions known 10 the race. l think it may be said without fear of contradiction that twenty five years experiment with the law as il now exists in Kansas has fortified the peoples hearts in its favor
 Legislatures do not consider the re- submission of the law. The people in the country districts would oyer vhelmnelS outvote any antagonistic clement that might be found in the cities: but l to not for one moment take the position that it is impossible to credt even in the large cities a sen ument strong enough for law and or der. for decency. for manhood and wcmanhoOd. for home and country and native land. for church and for Christ and for the kingdom of God which shall make possible even in large cen teTs or population what is possible in towns of 3.5O0 people.
 The Irohibitory amendment to the constitution of Kansas was submitted to the people by the legislature of ] ltS9 After full and intelligent dis cussion of the measure by the people for d year, the amendment was adopt
 
 vote of aI.S74 against S4 4.037. The leg islature Of 1881 gave effect to this con- stitutiOnal provision by a statute which went into effect the first day of May. 1881. From that time to the present this statutory amendment has been the source of discussion and of action in many different ways among the people of the state of Kansas. The law itself has been on the statute books now nearly twenty-five years. and it may safely be said that bv q larger majority than that which voted the law into existence twenty-five years ago the same law is believed in and upheld by the people today.
 The law has been center of attrac- tiGn for different Kind of people in rallying around common vantage. ground where men of different politi- cal views and Of different religious views could unite on the one issue of law or lawlcssness One of the things which has helped to unite the differ ent churches in Kansas has been the fact of this constant moral issue ere ated by the enactment of the law
 The value Of such public sentiment is incalculable in the protection Of the community from those who ya.,d de- stroy it for the sake of bloody gain or for the exercise of their personal passion.
 II may he well. also. to note some economical facts connected with the prchibitOry law in Kansas during the last twenty-five years. Here are some facts which the government itself fur nishes. and which no one can deny. Two years ago the total amount of taxes paid to government in Kansas for liquor licenses. including druggist permits to sell on prescription. was Sll5.4S3. Tn Nebraska. which is a high license state, and which has one-third less poPulation in Kansas. the amount Was S2.I16.90p IH Missouri. another high license state. adjoining Kansas on the east. the entire amount of taxes paid to government was tj.57G.ot5. Of fermented liquors there were shippcd into Kansas two years ago 9,o22 bar rcls; into Nebraska, 255,972 barrels: into Missouri the same year, 2,e9e, ,778 barrels. There is only S1 paid to the national government for license tax in Kansas to more than $40 in Nebraska and about $40 in Missouri
 And in addition to this it may be stated without fear of contradiction that the liquor laws of Ncbraska and Missouri are violated more time: than th" rr"hibitory law in Kansas. As an economic statement of what prohibi- ton has done for Kansas this is one item out of scores of others. From io5 counties in Kansas only 21 have any paupers in them; 25 have poor. houses; 35 have their jals absolutely empty: 37 have no criminal cases on their dookets.
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