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the home My God; that Is what we
are trying to do, to save the boy and
keep him out of the joints and blind
pig holes. You can not save the boy
when you have got prohibition. The
United States census compiled last
year by the department of commerce
and labor, 1907, table 35, pages 31S
to 1922. Certainly can not be charg-
ed with distorting those figures; they
are made by the United States gov
eminent: Kansas City. Kansas, pop
ulation 1914, arrests for drunken
ness 1882. or one in every so Of the
populations; that is prohibition In
Kansas City, Kansas. one in every so
of the population. Oh, but the other
side will say that is part of Kansas
City, Missouri, where they only have
to go across the street to get the
liquor and come back drunk into
Kansas City, Kansas. and get arrest
ed We will take another case far
Their away: Wichita, which is 200
miles away from Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, and the same tables, with a
population of lilo, last year there
were 1868 arrests, or one in every
90 in the city of Wichita, under the
prohibition in Kansas This has been
going on for 90 odd years Well,
perhaps you will say that they got
tired of prohibition, they have had it
so long, that if it was new people
would stick by it. Well. what has
been the history in the state of Geor-
gia? You all know that it was only
three or four years ago that prohi-
) bition was adopted in the state of
Georgia. Almost year ago, a year
ago tonight, within a very few weeks
after the passage of the last prohi-
bitiOn act, that a blind pig was dis
covered in the capitol of the state of
georgia, in the capitol building.
where the senators and members Of
the legislature who had been voting
; vociferously for prohibition, nightly
got drunk. (Applause). Alabama
is one of the last converts to prohi-
bition. One-half the ward schools of
Mobile, Alabama, are closed this fall
for lack of funds to open because the
. schools of the state are dependent
upon the licenses for their mainten-
ance. One-half the public schools of
the city of Mobile are closed. The
city of Birmingham. more prosperous
meet the deficiency caused by the
loss of revenue by the closing of the
, saloons, has put a business tax upon
, every calling in the city except the
ministers. Every lawyer, every doc
tor, every merchant, every butcher,
every baker. every candlestick MAX
er, pays a direct tax on his business
to maintain the city government, eX-
cept the ministers. I wonder why
that was. The month of April, 1909,
in the city of Birmingham, a year
after the new law went into effect,
: there were % murders and II deaths
from criminal assault. Does that in
dictate that prohibition had effectual-
ly stopped crime in the city of Bir-
! mingham? Listen to what one of the
principal merchants Of that city says
in the Birmingham Register Of May
L: The leaders Of the prohibition
movement promised this county
many things. Well, they have pro-
hibitiOn, but what else? The Jail is
full to overlooking, the courts are so
congested that the judges haven t
room to sit and hold court, crime is
rampant, murder IS on the increase,
|. and the only two lynchings that have
occurred in the county since 1888
have been under prohibition regime:
Have you protected a single woman?
Have you thrown around her any of
that influence you promised? Have
!, you raided or tried to raid some of
the influential clubs? No. you have
not That is the arraignment, the
indictment that has been read against
; the officials Of Birmingham, Alabama,
under their new prohibition regime
I started to read for you a clipping
from the San Diego, California, Re-
union; l thought it referred to Bir-
J mingham, but / see 1t refers to To-
peka, and it Is by leading merchant
there, Mr.. Stearns: Since the clos
ing of the saloons the conditions are
deplorable. Under the system of
monthly fines the enforcement of the
prohibition law has been taken out
of the hands of the county attorney
In TODeka we now have % Joints