The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-12
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/ 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 commonwealth in the world,
and the church is stronger because
| it's worst enemy, the saloon, has been
dethroned.
The State Superintendent of schools
made this answer.
The beneficent results of more
than quarter of acentury of prohi-
bition are nowhere more manifest
than in their influence upon those
grown to manhood and womanhood
under it's provisions. Children are
reared without the temptations OF
intemperance 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
impressionable period of their lives
they are free from the insidious infiu-
ence and example of intemperance.
The Mayor of Topeka, the capital
city, reported:
The effect of prohibition as to To-
peka is gratifying beyond expression,
and its benefits cannot be measured.
To realize this one needs to compare
conditions here with those in the av-
erage town of our size elsewhere
with saloons, dives and brothels and
what these mean to the town in waste
of money, debasing influence on the
youth of the city, the misery brought
| to the wives and children of the men
who support such resorts, and all the
degradation, crime, restitution and
heartaches that always follow in their
wake. The beneficial effect of pro-
hibition in Topeka, from the stand
point of improved citizenship, mater
ial prosperity, and everything that
makes for the betterment and uplift
of mankind, is too clearly apparent
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And the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon,
the author of In His Steps, declared:
Constitutional prohibition has done
more than any other one thing to
make Kansas the garden spot, NOR
ally, of the universe. 1t has educated
thousands of the finest young men
and women to abhor intoxicating IL
quor as they would abhor any kind
OF sin and crime. 1t has helped edu-
cate the entire population in ways Of
sobriety and sober healthy think
ing and conduct, and has raised the
entire moral tone of the state to the
highest level of citizenship. Prohi-
bition in Kansas is not question
mark, but permanent fact. The sa-
loon and all that goes with it in Kan
sas is deader than Pharaoh's army.
Secretary Coburn followed up these
testimonies with his own:
Prohibition was never before SO
popular in Kansas as now, after a
thirty years trial. Its effects upon
all phases Of society's welfare have
been helpfully wholesome, and the
aforetime noisy threats of resubmis-
sion are no longer heard, even in
whispers. Something of its benefi-
cent influence upon society may be
discerned in the official statistics, dis
closing that at the end of the last
fiscal year twenty-eight county poor
farms were without tenants; eighty
seven had no insane inmates, and
fifty-four had no feeble-minded in
mates. Twenty-one counties had no
convicts in the penitentiary, thirty
six had no prisoners in the reforma-
tory, fifty-two had no prisoners serv-
ing sentence in their county jails, and
sixteen counties were without a pris-
oner serving sentence in any institu-
ton. Statistics show further that
Kansas, with practically a fifth oil
New York's population, has less than