The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1910-07-07
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Conducted by the MccOok W. C. T. U.
The Kansas Prohibitory Law and its
Results.

hCodtIos
MOTE-Pressure of business pre-
vents me writing, but | enclose an &C
dress which l gave to the English
people.-Charles NJ. ~Sheldon.)
The Kansas State Prohibitory Law
went into effect May, 1881. For oyer
&c years the people of a state 400
miles long and 200 miles wide have
lived under a law which makes it a
felony to manufacture and sell in
toxicating liquor as a beverage.
The result of this law may be sum-
med up as follows:
ID Prohibition is a success. over
the entire state. That is, the law is
as well enforced and obeyed in five
sixths of the state as any other law.
Cl Any liquor business in the
state is criminal, and is so regarded
by the people. The liquor dealer has
no social, religious or political stand
ing in the community.
CD When the law was passed the
brewers brought suit against the
state to recover compensation. In
a test case they lost their suit, and
he United States Supreme Court de-
clarad them not entitled to recover
damages, and they never received a
penny.
(4) Prohibition has reduced paup-
erism to a minimum. Kansas has
fewer than 1900 paupers to a popu-
lation of 1000, 900. Eighty-seven
out of a total of 1O5 counties have nc
paupers. 1t costs less than $3.50, 900 a
year to care for the destitute people
of the state.
90 Crime has decreased more
than one-half under prohibition.
Thirty-five county jails in the state
are entirely empty. Stealing has de-
creased one-half. In many counties
whole months go by without a sin
gle case in the criminal courts.
co The law has educated the
young people to regard with aversion
the social habit of drinking. 1t is
not considered reputable to drink
even moderately. Drunkenness itself
is rare. A drunken woman in the
streets of Topeka(a city of 80, 900
people, would be a sight so unusual
not hIICInnCC Mould he CrrrTNAnInI 30
look at her.
CD The different church denomin-
atoms have united on the prohibitory
law In very many towns the church
members hold the balance of polit-
zeal power at elections, and elect all
the city officials.
(S) The working men of Kansas
are for the most part the best fed,
best clothed, and best paid working
men in the world, largely on account
of the prohibitory law.
CO. The newspapers of Kansas are
overwhelmingly in favor of the law.
Out of sos papers published in the
state, only 10 ever print any liquor
advertisements.
QO) The great majority of the
people of the state believe in the
law. The ministers and church mem
bers of all denominations, the 10000
school teachers, the best business
men, the Chief Justice of the Su.
preme Court, the governor, the attor
ney general, the editors of the most
influential papers all believe the
prohibitory law is one of the best
laws Kansas ever had.
America has over SO, 900, 900 people
Who are living under local option anC
and p~rohibitory laws. The Temperance
egislation is making fast headway
IL Ove the country. The South is
rapidly becoming prohibitory through
local option. The Anti-SaloOn Lea
que is doing magnificent worl
through the church. 1t is the churcl
in action. The liquor men in Ameri
"a are very much alarmed over the
situation. Many of them predict tina
heir business will be gone inside O
i quarter of a century.
The only solution for the public
house is 10 public house.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE,