The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-10-21
Idaho Country Life

! WHICH SHOW tudI forty per cent Q
our convicts are natives of Illinois
We have no powerful saloon men 1
Kansas to use their pull in keepin
the criminals they make out of tn
hands of the law. Fa
Fifth. assert that the business O
Kansas has made remarkable pro
gress since the Punishment of the sa
loon and adoption of prohibition. TIL
records Of the state bank commits
sioners and the comptroller of tn
federal treasury which l have will
me, show that in ten years deposit
in Kansas banks have increased from
$6S,000,000 to $189, 900, 900 and dur
ing the past ten years under mori
rigid enforcement of the law, 7banl
Deposits per. ~capitas have. increased
from $50 to Sill. Since complete
prohibition became effective May
1873, bank deposits have increased
$11, 900 900. n ~.
Some years,ago Carrie Nat'on+put.
chased and donated teithe Associated
Charities home FOR \ drurkard.s
wives. During the year csding the
closing Of the joints. this home was
fra to overlooking N.,hin about a
year after the Icin:s were closed
there was not an inmate and it has
now been converted into a school for
girls.
Sixth. Prohibition has worked
wonders in the private credit of the
state. Grocers and butchers tell me
that men who were dead beats IN
der the drain of the saloons have
become debtors of reliability and
standing, and bad accounts are rar-
ity. Garnishment cases have practi-
cally disappeared from the courts.
Seventh. assert that the charge
OF higher public expenses, on account
OF prohibition is practically untrue.
A bulletin issued by the census de-
patrment makes really wonderful
revelation in favor of prohibition. It
shows that the general and special
service expenses in Wichita are 1921
per capita, in Springfield, Illinois.
Sl1.SS, and in Chicago 1856. The
bulletin shows the cost of the police
department at Wichita to be So per
'ent per capita, at Springfield 1925
md at Chicago 1884. From another
authoritative source l get it that the
ost OF the police and militia estab-
lshment in Kansas is only 100000
while it is $4,790, 900 III
linois. twelve times heavier with on
about four times as much popula-
ion.
Eighth. During the last decade the
axable property of the state has in
reased $120.000,000 annually, az.
regating an increase of $4,000, 00o.-
W in ten years. Ten years ago our (
roperty was taxed on ma 25 per cent {
asis amounting to $327,144.00. The {
'tal taxable property this year at e
ON Is to 80 per cent Valuation 1
mounts to $2,511,O00.O0O. Kansas q
day stands second among the states (
the union in property per capita. b
ne census will show that It stands
st in home owning citizens. a
Ninth. The brewers are wasting fl
cir time, and their money too, in O
'eeches and documents trying to a
ouse public sentiment with refer Y
ce to pauperism in Kansas. Fifty Il
ven of the los counties of the state d
We no inmates at their poor farms. t.
OK county alone with all it's pala- d
i saloons andn vibrating breweries, 81
S little over five time smore pau
rs than we have in the entire state
Kansas. The good state of Illinois
s Just 100 per cent more paupers "
IN Kansas, according to population.
d l venture to say that Illinois d
uld have still more were it not for K
temperance progress she has y
de during the past few years. l -
We heard great many mean things ~
d about prohibition but have new "
before heard the charge that it
lses pauperism.
Tenth. ! assert that Kansas is more
e from mental and nervous de- =
ses than any other state in the Of
on and that authenticated scientif- n,
facts will prove that our temper oh
e policy for Thirty years is large an
responsible for this I. condition. If
nsas has fifty-four counties with ga
an idiot. 1t has 81 counties with IN,
an insane inmate. Cook county 10
ne sends more of her people to the vo
me hospitals at Cunning thanh m,
lsas has in all her charitable in tn,
" in
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