The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-12
THE WORKINGS OF LEGAL PRO
HIBITION

| HlblllON
| The press has given wide currency
| to the statements made by brewers
and other interested parties before
the convention of the United States
Brewers Association in Washington.
President Hoster and other speakers
are quoted as asserting that the pro-
hibition movement had eliminated"
in the last year and that Strong
reaction" had set in. 1t is a. case In
which the wish is largely father to
the thought.
That the spread of the local-option
idea has sounded an effective warning
to the brewers was evident from many
things that were said. 1t was admit
| ted that the saloon business was at
| tended by evils and the members of
the association were urged to contin-
lie their effort to prevent such evils
in the future. Great parade was
made of figures so arranged as to
show that the consumption of liquor
was increasing more rapidly than the
| population. Notwithstanding the ap-
parent extension of prohibitory legis-
lation in very many countie and
| States.
The brewers listened with great
satisfaction to men from Maine and
other states having similar liquor
laws, who represented that prohibi-
tion did not prohibit We wonder If
it pays to hire prophets to prophesy
pleasant things. They ought to have
summoned the Hon. F. D. Coburn,
Secretary of the Kansas Department
of Agriculture, man of the highest
reputation for veracity and RESPONSE
bility, and one who certainly from
his intimate knowledge of the life of
the people, knows whereof he speaks
on the subject of prohibitory laws.
When invited to Chicago to address
the Sons of Kansas at the dinner of
the Kansas Dry Club on January 20,
this year, he took for his theme the
workings and results of Constitution
al Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic,
in which Kansas is the successful
leader. He had prepared for this
occasion by obtaining written answers
to specific inquiries from high Off
cials of the State. These he made a
part of his speech:
Governor Stubb's reply was as fol-
lows.
believe that Kansas with prohibi-
ton has more sobriety and less in
temperance and it's evil results than
any other State has ever had. Eve
rywhere prohibition is proving most
potent factor in the improvement and
exaltation of our citizenship and the
best friend of our men and women.
] know of no one who is injured by
it but the barkeeper, and in the end
(even he will be benefited.
The Acknowledgement of Kansas
said:
There are now no saloons in Kan
sas, and the Jaws prohibiting traffic
in liquor are as we'll enforced as any
others. Ministers and those engaged
in charitable work report a great de-
crease in the number of dependents
in the cities since the enforcement of
the law. Kansas has made remark
able record in later years in the small
number of persons needing the bene-
fit of the poor-laws, and in the low
percentage of criminals. In bringing
about such generally improved and
desirable condition constitutional pro-
hibition has had a tremendously i'm
portant part.
The Warden of the State peniten-
tiary wrote.
Under enforced prohibition theI
misunderstanding business is stopped;
illiteracy and crime are decreasing,
poor-houses are empty in many coun-
ties, and families of laboring men
are better clothed, better fed, better
housed and have more advantages