The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-10-21
GOV. STUBS TELLS WHAT CON.
STITUTIONAL PROHIBITION
HAS DONE FOR KANSAS

When l was candidate for GOV
]ernor in 1908 l made the campaig
for my nomination and election O.
the proposition that If elected to thi
Office every saloon, joint and plac
OF every kind whatever, regardless o
the ointment of the community ha,
to be closed. This proposition wal
made in my campaign speeches to tn,
saloon men in wet counties as vel
as to temperance people; l stated
licly all over Kansas, in Pittsburs
in the mining districts as we'll as in
the localities where the law was en.
forced. that any man who esta olish-
ed himself in the saloon business IN
violation of the laws and consntitu-
ton of Kansas would be regarded the
same as any other outlaw, and all the
power and force of the state govern
ment would be used to punish aid de-
stroy his business.
This does not mean that We have
no violations of the prohibitory law,
Tor II there were no violations such
q law would not be necessary. 1t does
mean that Drohibitory law in Kan
sas is as we'll enforced as other Grim
inal statutes, and that when men yio-
late 1t they are arrested, convicted
and promptly sent to prison.
Prohibition must be judged by re-
sults-it must stand or fail apon its
merits. The people of Kansas are
very progressive, very positive, and
intensely practical in their ideas and
habits. II the prohibitory law had
not given. us better civilization and
a higher type of manhood and wom-
anhood it would have been repealed
years ago. If it had increased
drunkenness crime and perjury, as
saloon men clai init has done. the
saloon-keepers would all be support
ing the law instead of fighting it, for
1t would increase their. revenue.
1 First. l assert that drunkenness
IN Kansas has been reduced to such
q point TIT | have not seen drunk
en- man in the city of Topeka, place
OF $4,000 inhabitants, during the last
twelve months; that l do not have
any recollection of having seen
man in my home city of
Lawrence, place of. 5000 people
Tor several years; that in making
throughout the entire state {
and delivering public addresses in 90
counties | do not recall seeing
drunken man during the year. s
Second. | assert that in 105 coun- |
les of Kansas that l do not know i
IL a conviction for perjury growing 6
tut of the prohibitory law. II
Third. l assert that the prohibi- I
DRY law is now as easily enforced as q
my other law on. the statute books. Q
ourth. | assert that crime has de- a
reased in Kansas under the influence i
u temperance legislation. AT the I
resent time more than SO per cent
4 our county jails are without a. :
risoner under conviction. Last year I
. of the los counties did. not send
prisoner to the penitentiary. We
ave only one convicted prisoner in
ur county jails for 1000 inhabitants
almost unbelievable fact in Grim
lal statistics. And the Attorney
eneral estimates rs per cent of
lese prisoners are in pail for the !.
olation of the prohibitory law. or II
g $50 convicts in our penitentiary
lily 143 are natives of Kansas. And
is singular fact that while only L
per cent Of our prisoners are ma
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