The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-02-26
THE SALOON MusTHGos
What Prohibition Has Done for
F., Kansas. w

IL $50 oAiUsot LAlC LIoaE prosperous
In its history. and this prosperity was
limited to no locality and confined to
4 no interest. 3s
Since 1880 the manufacture and sale
OF intoxicants except for medicinal.
scientific tnnd mechanical purposes has
been prohibited BY the constitution OF
this State. Relatively the prohibltory
policy has been u great success in this
State. It has been u great benefit ed.
ucationally, morally and financially to
the people. says a Kansas man. ~, AZ
do not believe there are any people
Q hearth more progressive and pros.
porous than the sixteen hundred thou
sand people who constitute the pop,,.
lation. OF Kansas. Our per capita
wealth Is over ninety tlollars-ncarly
three times the average In the United
States-and no where Is wealth more
equally distributed. A poor house Is
almost Joke In Kansas. Saloons are
not commercial necessities.
All the money that goes into the
stills Is just SO much taken out OF
legitimate business channcls;G 1t IL
lust So much less to the legitimate
merchant. b.
| The 200 joints IN Kansas City, Kan
sas have been cffectually. closed, and
yet 1t Is almost the universal testi.
nlony that the city has never been SO
Prosperous. 1t Is the largest city in
the State. and I believe 1t Is the larg-
est city in the world without IN open
| saloon.
Government" said Henry Clay, 'is
4 trust and the officers OF the govern.
ment are trustees" Law" said IIol.
land. lis the hulwark OF our liberties"
LET the sanctity Of the law" said
Lincoln. "be taught to our children III
the public schools. preached from the
pulplts, proclaimed In the press ami
enshrned III the hearts OF all the peo-
pie"
+ Tho above is from Gov. E. w. Hoch's
message 10 the legislature. January s.
1907.
Ex.Gov. John a Martin said of Kan.
sas. that in my opinion this State Is
today the most temperate. orderly and
soLerly Community In the civilized
world"
Mayor David II. Shields. OF salina,
Kansas. sail: 1.-THE city treasurer's
ErcEort fro March. 1906. showed there
was III the general fund of the city ut
that times3.+lG.9OO. THO same report
Tor March t190G) shows $7,7C9.49. an
increase OF over $4,000. and this in
snlte OF the fact that the city took In
over $4,000 for the joints the year be.
fore and less than $1,000 this year
through legitimate fines. The mer-
chants claim that this ilas been the
best year In the history of. Sallna.
More goods have been sold and more
business done than in any twelve
Months of hte city's experience"
The assistant ATTORNEY general, Mr..
c. W. Tricketr, said of Kansas City.
Kansas. that the closed saloons had
helped business In every. line. THE
bankers informed, me that in three
months OF prohibition deposits had in
creased 100000. The merchants said
their business had increased. that col.
lections were never better. and that
women were trading with them. pre-.
senting their husbands pay checks,
stating that they had never seen nay
check until the saloons were closed"
Liquor men everywhere cry out that
prohibition don't prohibit. That Is to
say that the law can't be enforced
against their business, their own
speech condemns them as being the
| very blackest anarchists.
Every true American citizen SHOULD
be u secret service man and SPOT
every public official that votes against
prohibition Or holds back prohibition
anil legislative committees.
Statistics SNOW that every dollar of
revenue AMI license money taken from
the liquor and saloon business cost
the taxpayers OF this country SIG to
$50 TO pay court expenses, build more
prnttentiartcs. more jails. more aims.
houses, support paupers and bury
thcir.deal. ts
The Nan Patterson case OF New
York cost that State 100000 so said
tue New York papers. This case was
the outcome OF the drink habit.
= The -Thaw case. which was drunk,
en- debnucf, cost New York State no
doubt more than 100000. (
The May Brewery Journal. 1909.
says: ''lf we had been organized M
We now are ten years ago prohibition
would not have affected our business.
Through otr attorneys and committees
We have been able to control the Goth,