The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-17

there has been no talk Of the repeal OF the law
Now. is the rtTgimian-Pilot simply ignorant or
the facts as to liquor legislation in Kansas ana
is the editor simply talking without regard to
accuracy. or is he simply sneering at Prohioi-
ton because II is pleasing TO dram-drnkers and
dram sellers. without regard TO facts?
The average wet newspaper Is utterly
reckless In its statements concerning conditions
In Kansas and usually refuses to print the facts,
lest Its readers should learn the truth about the
most prosperous State in the Union. We print
below statements made by the Governor and by
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kan
sas and we ask readers which la most
worthy Of belief--the testimony Of the Govern
or and OF the Chief Justice a wet newspa-
per, which is paid by the liquor traffic TO adver-
tise its goods. and which as il obtains revenue
by advertising intoxicating liquors, is preju-
diced witness. and indeed is In the sight Of Al
mighty God in the same catalogue the bar
keeper who sells the intoxicants to the man who
is told in the columns of the newspapers, at so
much per inch. where he can find certain
brands of misunderstanding stuff.
Governor Stubbs saws:
During the last decade the taxable property
Of the State has Increased Sf20.000,00o annual
". segregating increase of $1,000 900. 900 in
ten years, Ten years ago our property was taxed
% per cent. basis amounting TO 1921
$4,000, which indicated g total valuation of ali
taxable property to be sl30s. 900. The total
taxable property this year, at from 75 TO 80 per
cent. valuation. amounts to s2.611,ooo.ooo. Kan
to-day stands second among the States of
the Union In property per capita The census
I viii show that Il stands first In home owning
citizens Fifty of the 106 counties Of the
stste have no inmates at their poor farms. Cook
county, Ill, alone, with all it's palatial saloons
/ and vibrating breweries. has q little over 1--WE
times more psupers than We have In the on
tire State of Kansas, according to population.
Kansas has 81 counties without idiot II
has 81 counties without an insane inmate. Cook
county Ill. alone sends more of her people te
ineane hospitals at Dunning than Kansas has il
all her charitable institutions Of every sort in
Guiding blind. deaf the dumb. insane inebrates
! fee BILE minded incorriEihles and orphans. "ttf
| 20 per cent. Of the population Of New York
Kansas has less than 10 per cent Of its in
sanity.
single inebriate Six of the nine counties fur
nthing inebriates last year were. strfkingi,
CROUCH. counties bordering on the wet sector
OF Missouri
The following is a recent statement Of W
A. Johnston, Chief Justice Of the Supreme Cour
OF Kansas written under date of March "a
1910:
THE closing of the saloons and joints ha
nae an FACeltHt eHe'% upon tle Hipiais ah'
material interests of the people of the State
Among the consequences of prohibition are bet
ter homes. happier families, higher standard
of Intelligence and education. and, of course.
great reduction in crime. No statement or proc
: is needed support the claim that these re
suits follow the closing of saloons and the et
fective enforcement of the prohibitory law The
are the natural and inevitable results. and thes
have been realized in Kansas.
7 Yours very truly.
y w a. JOHNSTON,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Kansas =
a win the V4rgininn-PtIot publish these fact
: or will 1t continue to sneer and misrepreser
/ conditions in Kansas?