The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-31
Secretary F. ID. Coburn Deliver.
ed Principal Address.
MET IN CHICAG O.
Prohibition Never So Popular as
Now, Speaker Said.
After Thirty Years Trial the
Verdict Is Against Saloons.

secretary of The Kansas board of agrl-
culture, delivered the principal address
at the meeting of the Kansas Day club
held in this city. He said in part:
1.-THE pleasant scene to contemplate
is the situation. of the future kanSan.
Born within those parallels where ma
lures prodigality in gifts OF earth, air
and sky, of seed time and harvest. OF
energizing days and reposefui nights
has largest manifestation; in an atmos-
phere electric with wholesomeness Tor
physical, moral and mental WelIDelng,
with a parentage in which has blend
ed the best of the robust. the venture
some. the coolly masterful and the
uplifting blood of all the worthier
civilizations transmitted by the
alchemy of the centuries; of a stature
proven by all tests most enviable Tor
achievement in peace or in war. Bene-
ficiary of a past richer than fell to
car or Caesar, and looking out with
enlightened vision upon future pre-
senting promise and possibility in
which are coined a contamination and
elimination of all the best for which
mankind has wrought since time be-
gan, this kansan will typ1fy the irul-
ton of the ages. Surely the dwellers
age, SO rich in opportunities and pos
sibilities, should be counted among the
most enviable of Gods creations.
Sec. Coburn Defends Prohibition.
I'm consideration of it's beneficence,
and of the shameless ISLANDERS, pro-
duct of both malice and ignorance,
constantly circulated by interests ini-
nicaI to temperance and sobriety,
your speaker would scarcely be
loyal Kansan if away from home he
addressed an audience without refer
ring to the practical workings and re-
suits of constitutional prohibition OF
the liquor traffic, in which Kansas is
the successful leader as observed at
close range during and after thor
ough time test by those officially and
otherwise concerned with the states
caretaking.
The governor of the state says, for
this occasion: I believe that Kansas
with prohibition has more sobriety
and less intemperance and its evil re-
suits than any other state has ever
had. Everywhere prohibition is prov
ing a most potent factor in the i'm
provement and exaltation of our citi
zenship and the best friend of our
men and women. 1 know. of no one
who is injured by it but the barkeep-
er, and in the end even he will be ben
efited.'
THE attorney general writes:
There are no saloons in Kansas, and
the laws prohibiting traffic in liquor
are as we'll enforced as. any others.
Ministers and those engaged in char
table work report great decrease
III LllC uuA4lDCL VI OCpCL0Cuto IA IAAO
cities since the enforcement of the
law Kansas has made a remarkable
record in later years in the small
number of persons needing the BEN
eft of, the poor-laws, and in the low
percentage of criminals. In bring
ing about such a generally improved
and desirable condition constitutional
prohibition has had a tremendously
important part.
The warden of the state peniten
,
ition the drunkard-making business
is stopped; illiteracy and crime are
decreasing, poor houses are empty IN
many counties, and families of labor
ing men are better clothed.S better fed,
better housed and have more advan-
tages than in any other state in the
Union, and the saloon vote no longer
counts in elections. We have more
home owners and fewer renters than
any saloon mmonwealth in the
world, and the church is stronger be-
cause its worst enemy, the saloon,
has been dethroned.'
1.-The state superintendent of schools
says: The beneficent results of more
than quarter of a century of pro-
hibition are nowhere more manifest
than in their influence upon those
grown to manhood and womanhood
under its provisions. Children are
reared without the temptations of in
| temperance and arrive at the point
of fixed habits with no experiences
and no inclinations relative to liquor
such as present themselves to young
people elsewhere. Thrice blessed are
the states children, because they
have as their rightful heritage sober
and industrious parents; because they
| have always before them the example
| of sobriety, and because in the most
| questionable period of their lives
| they are free from the insidious in
| huence and example of intemperance.
1.-The mayor of the capital city, To-
peka, reports: The effect of prohibit
| ton as to Topeka is gratifying beyond
| expression, and it's benefits cannot he
| measured. To realize this one needs
| but to compare conditions here with
| those in the average town of our size
| elsewhere, with saloons, dives AND
| brothelS and what these mean to the
| town in waste of money, debasing in
| fluence on the youth Of the city, the
| misery brought to the wives and chill
| dren of the men Who support such re-
/ sorts, and all the degradation, crime
| restitution and heartaches that always
| follow in their wake. The beneficial eff
feet of prohibition in Topeka from the
standpoint of improved citizenship, ma
| terial prosperity, and everything thai
makes for the betterment and uplift o.
mankind is too clearly apparent to ad.
| nit of question:
THE Reverend Charles NJ. Sheldon
| the world-famous clergyman and au
| thor, writes: Constitutional prohibition
| has done more than any other one thing
| to make Kansas the garden spot, NOR
| ally, OF the universe. It has educated
| thousands of the finest young men an6
! women to abhor any kind of sin an6
crime. 1t has helped educate the entire
population in ways of sobriety ant
sober, healthy thinking and conduct
and has raised the entire moral tone oi
the state to the highest level of citizen
ship. Prohibition in Kansas is not {
question mark, but a permanent fact
The saloon and all that goes with it II
Kansas is deader than P1araoh's
/ army
1 No Doubt of Its Popularity.
| Prohibition was never before so pop.
ular in Kansas as now, after a THIRTY
|