Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-10-22

to Overlooking. Within year after
the joints were closed there was not
! an inmate and it has now been con
Yerted into school for girls.
Sixth. Prohibition has worked won
ders in the private credit of the state
7 Grocers and butchers tell me that
men who were dead beats" under
the drain of the saloons have become
debtors of reliability and standing,
and bad accounts are a rarity.
Garnishment cases have practically
disappeared from the courts.
Seventh. | assert that the charge
of higher public expenses, on ac-
count of prohibition is practically UNI
true. A bulletin issued by the cen
sus department makes a really wonder
full revelation in favor of prohibition.
1t shows that the general and spe-
cial service expenses in Wichita are
1921 per capita, in Springfield, Il
inois, $11.SS, and in Chicago $l5.66.
The bulletin shows the cost of the
police department at Wichita to be
% per cent per capita, at Springfield
$l,26 and at Chicago $2.64 From
another authoritative source | get it
that the cost of the police and mill
tia establishment i'm Kansas is only
$4O2, goo annually while it is $4790,-
600 in Illinois, twelve times heavier
with only about four times as much
population.
Eighth. During the last decade the
taxable property of the state has in
creased $120000,000 annually, aggre-
eating an increase of 81 200, 600 900 in |
ten years Ten years ago our property.
was taxed on a % per cent bas is |
amounting to $327,144.OO. The total
taxable property this year al froD
Is to 80 per cent valuation amounts
TO $2,51l goo, 900 Kansas today stands
second among the states of the Union
i'll property per capita. The census
will show that it standsfirst in home
owning citizens.
Ninth. The brewers are wasting
Jheir time, and their money too. in
speeches and documents trying to
arouse public sentiment with referenc
to pauperism in Kansas. Fifty-seven
of the 105 counties of the state
have no inmates at their poor farms
Cook County alone with all its pala-
daI saloons and vibrating breweries,
has a little over five times more
puapers than we have in the entire
state of Kansas. The good state of
Illinois has just 100 per cent more
paupers than Kansas, according to
population, And | venture to say
that Illinois would have still more
We're it not for the temperance pro-
gress she has made during the past
few years. | heard great many
mean things said about prohibition bu
| have never heard the charge that
it causes pauperism.
Tenth. | assert that Kansas is
more free from mental and nervous
disease than any other state in the
Union and that authenticated scien-
tltic facts will prove that our TEN
peranee policy for Thirty years is
largely responsible for this condition.
Kansas has fifty-four counties with
out an idiot. 1t has 81 counties with
out an insane inmate. Cook County
alone sends more of her people to the
insane hospitals at Cumming than Kan
sas has in all her charitable institu
lions of every sort. including blind
deaf, the dumb, insane inebriates
feeble-minded, incorrigibles and or.
phans. With twenty per cent of the
population of New York. Kansas has
less than ten per cent of it's insanity.
The Brewers go so far as to say that
Kansas although we have made it
plain to them several times that the
first few years of prohibition in Kan
sas showed a forty-five per cent de-
crease in divorce cases. Their logic
seems to be that a man must get
drunk and beat his wife in order to
intensity her love for him. Ninty-six
counties in the state have not sin ,
gle inebrate Six of the nine counties
inebriates last year were,
enough counties bordering
on the wet section of Missouri. ,,
Eleventh. | assert that prohibition s
is the best friend of education and [
that wherever temperance is obser-
ed the schools shows it's highest and
best developments