Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-12-01


general estimates 75 per cent OF
these prisoners are in Jail for the /
violation of the prohibitory law. OF
the $50 convicts in our penitentiary |
only 143 are natives of Kansas. And |
il is a singular fact that while only
II per cent of our prisoners are ma
tives, / have figures from the war;
den at Joliet and Chester, H., which
show that 40 per cent of our con-
victs are natives of Illinois. We have
no powerful saloon men in Kansas
to use their pull in keeping the Grim
inals they make out of the hands Of
the law.
Fifth assert that the business Of
Kansas has made remarkable pro-
gress since the Punishment of the a.
loon and adoption of prohibition.
The records of the state bank COM
missioners and comptroller of the
federal treasury which ] have with
me, show that in ten years deposits
in Kansas banks have increased from
$50, 100000 to $1S9,O0O,000 and
during the past ten years under a
more rigid enforcement of the law,
bank deposits, per capita, have in
creased from $69 to $113. Since
complete prohibition became effect
i've May, 1909. bank deposits have
increased $11,0OO,OOO.
Some years ago Carrie Nation pur-
chased and donated to the Associa-
ted Charities a home for drunkard's
wives. During the year preceding the
closing of the joints this home was
full to overflowing. Within about
year after the joints were closed
there was not an inmate and it has
now been converted into a school for
girls.
IS Prohibition has worked
'ders in the private credit of the state.
Grocers and butchers tell me that
men who were dead beats" under
the drain of the saloons have become
debtors of reliability ana standing,
and bad accounts are rarity. Garn-
ishment cases have practically disap-
peared from the courts.
Seventh assert that the charge
of higher public expenses, on ae-
count of prohibition is practically un.
true. A bulletin issued by the censu.
department makes a really wonder
full revelation in favor of prohibition
1t shows that the general and specia
service expenses in Wichita are SS.2l
per capita, in Springfield, Illinois
$11.SS and in Chicago, S15.66. The
bulletin shows the cost of the police
department at So cents per capita
at Springfield s1.26 and at Chicago
S2.64. From another authorativ'
source / get it that the cost Of the
police and militia establishment il
/ Kansas is only 100000 annually
while it is s4.79O,OO0 in Illinois, o.
twelve times heavier with only abou
times as much population.
During the last decade
taxable property of the state has in
creased S12O,OOO,OOO annually, ag
gregating an increase Of S1,2OO,O0o,
600 in ten years. Ten years ago on
property was taxed on a % per cen
basis amounting to S327144. Th'
total taxable property this year a
from rs to 80 per cent valuation
amounts to $2,511OOO,OOO. Kansa
today stands second among the state
Of the Union in property per capita
The census will show that it stand
first in home owning citizens.
Ninth-The brewers are wastini
their time and their money, too, il
speeches and documents trying II
arouse public sentiment and refer
ence to pauperism in Kansas Fifty
seven of the 1O5 counties Of TIA
state have no inmates at their poo
farms. Cook county alone. in iii
nois, with all its palatial saloons an
vibrating breweries, has a little owe
FIVE times more paupers than w
have in the entire state of Kansas
The good state Of Illinois has jus
100 per cent more paupers than Kan
sas according to population. And
venture to say that Illinois. woul
{ have still more were it not for tenn
3 Derance progress she has made dur
, ing the past few years ! have hear
a great many mean things said abou
prohibition. but I have never befor
3 heard the charge that it causes paur
erism.
Tenth assert that Kansas j
= more free from mental and neryor
diseases than any other state in tn
union and that authenticated seien
p tinc facts will prove that our TEN
perance policy for thirty years