The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-28

him. Ninety-six counties in the state
have not a single inebriate. Six of the
nine counties furnishing inebriates last
year were, strikingly enough counties
bordering on the wet section of Mis-
souri,
Prohibition and Education.
Eleventh. assert that prohibition is
the best friend of education and that
wherever temperance is observed the
school shows its highest and best de-
velopment. We have in our permanent
school fund the sum of $10,000,0 600 draw
ing interest With this we buy the mu-
nicipa1 bonds of our own state, deeming
them the best security. The annual in
terest on these bonds is enough to pay
the present entire state debt. We have
recently established normal courses iE
100 of the 105 counties. During the last
nine years the enrolment Of the state
university has risen from 1,150 to 2,063;
the normal from 1880 to 2,S60, and the
agricultural college from $40 to 2,192-
Besides that, 5000 young men and wo-
men are attending UNCONVENTIONAL in
stitutiors and 4,548 attending business
colleges. In all. 21,000 young men and
women are attending colleges within the
state. The value of public school prop
erty has advanced from $10,000,000 to
SIG, 100000. AS a part of our educa-
tional system we have nearly 700 news
papers and magazines and / am told
that 80 per cent of them will not pub
lish the advertisements of a brewery
or a liquor house. During the first 20
years of prohibition illiteracy was re-
duced 80 Ter cent. It is more than AZ
per cent lower than Illinois and the
next census reports will give the state
first place in education. The youth of
Kansas has his eye fixed far above the
horizon of the saloon
Twelfth assert that the death rate
in Kansas is lower than that Of any
other state or nation on earth and our
condition in this respect is due largely
to our temperance policy. The annual
death rate in the state is only IN to
every 1000 inhabitants. This is SO low
that the government of the United
States still refuses to believe in its ac-
ouracy, although it has been thoroughly
Investigated ana verified. IhaVe a let
ter from the secretary Of our board OF
health which will show you how prohi-
bition is prolonging life and building up
vigorous health conditions in Kansas. 1t
will show you that with every advance
made in temperance original cases OF
tuberculosis decrease materially. DR..
Crumbine tells me that ten years of our
present temperance conditions and care
full enforcement of sanitary regulations
will eliminate entirely native cases of
Had 200 Letters and kilograms
I have probably 200 letters, kilograms
and statements from official sources in
dealing with this subject, but it
is obvious I cannot read them all to
you. have, however, prepared copies
Of these letters and statements for the
newspapers and persons interested, so
that the facts can be fully verified by
statistics or by personal investigation
IF the conditions as they exist in our
state.
These simply increase the preponder
ate mass Of evidence that prohibitory
liquor legislation is safe and sane Sup |
ported by this evidence challenge de- |
tenders of the saloon to show twenty |
i've cities in any commonwealth of the |
Union where the per cent of home own |
ers is greater and the per cent of rent |
ers smaller, where commercial and |
financial business is more prosperous,
where residence and business property |
like are in better demand, where real |
,state values have increased more rap |
d1y, where greater progress has been |
made in public improvements, where |
nen, women and children are better |
educated, better hammered, better |
clothed and better fed than in the |
wenty five largest cities in Kansas. If |
hey cannot do this their arguments in
lefense of the saloon from an economic
standpoint must forever be discredited
n the minds of thinking men. Their
louse is builded upon the sand
'ortance to the American people. The
cry foundation of our republic is
'ased on the morality and religious
principles of our citizenship. George.
Vashingto in his farewell address
avs:
''Of all the dispositions and habits
which lead to political prosperity re-
gion and morality are indispensable
Imports. In vain would that man
lain the tribute Of patriotism who
hould labor to subyert the pillar of
uman happiness, these f1rmest props
f men and citizens. Let US with eau
ion indulge the superstition that
morality can prevail in the exclusion
vo1i0in17r
President Lincoln said on April IA,
S65, the morning before his assassina-
ion:
AFTER reconstruction, the next great
uestion will be the overthrow of the
quor traffic.
He said in Springfield in 1858:
1.-The most effectua1 remedy would be
he passage of a law altogether abolish