El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-11
Both Sides of Prohibition
CONTRIBUTED BY ]. 1. CAMPBELL.

peka is situated had $50 arrests
for illegally selling liquor from
January l, 1910, to March 81, 1911.
wichita, population 52,45o, as
shown by reports Of the chief Of
police, page so, had 1341 arrests
for drunkenness during the year
1910 and 81 arrests for illegally
selling LIQUOR. The sheriffs depart
ment Of Sedgwick county. in which
Wichita is situated, made A arrests
for illegally selling liquor from
January 1 TO March 81. 1911.
These figures prove the lawlessness
of the liquor traffic. It comes to us
with them as evidence of its guilt and
on that ground has the audacity to ask
TO be relicensed because it proposes to
stay in Kansas even If it must continue
10 break the law. 1t holds this over
Texas as a threat that it Will do the
same there. Shall we surrender?
Governor Stubs, Of Kansas. Is au-
thority for the following: When pro-
hibition went into effect 80 years ago
there were 724 convicts in the state
penitentiary. Two years after, with an
increasing population, the number
dropped to 66S. Since that time the
population has increased nearly 100
percent and the conyicts only II per-
cent. There is no capital punishment
in Kansas and convicts for murder
stay in prison for life. In the county
jails there is only one convict for each
1000 Of population. More than 90 per-
cent of the county jails were without
a prisoner under conviction. In one
wear. 40 out of the los counties did not
send a man to the penitentiary- A CEN
sus bulletin shows that the police de-
partment at Wichita cost So cents per
canita. 1926 at Springfield, III, and
1854 at Chicago
Coming TO Texas, we find. in 1880,
with only 10 dry counties. one convict
for each 698 of population In 1907
with rs dry counties, there was one to
73S people; and in 1910. with Isl dry
counties. there was one to 1898 people
The report OF the penitentiary commits
sioners. dated August. 1910. shows that
two convicts came from the wet coun-
ties for each one from the dry coun-
ties.
Questions and tnswers II to rs, in
elusive, read:
"7i. What is the record Of in
sanity in prohibition Kansas? One
insane person for every ass OF pop
u1ation-
tT2. What is the record Of in
sanity in licensed Texas? One Tor
every 7S7 of population
"I3- What does tnlS SNOW. Ai1o1
prohibition Kansas has nearly twice
the number OF insane persons as
licensed Texas
"a What was the census report
OF pauperism in prohibition Kan
sas in 1903 (the latest report OBJ
tainable)? There were 81 paupers
in every 1o0. 900 of population in
prohibition Kansas
"'75. What was the report Of pau
perism in licensed Texas in the
same year? Not % persons to each
100. 900 Of population
.'76. What does this show? Near
ly twice as many paupers in pro-
hfbition Kansas as in licensed
Texas"
Kansas has los counties. Gov.
Stubs says: Kansas has "a counties
without an idiot 1t has 81 counties
without a nidiot. 1t has 81 counties
without an insane inmate Ninety-six
counties have not a single inebriate-
Six of the nine counties furnishing inc
briates last year were. strikingly
enough, counties bordering on the wet
of Missouri"
Kansas stands second in per capita
wealth and first In home owning citi-
zens.
It is not fair to say prohibition
Kansas and licensed Texas" There are
only p wet and 5S partially wet coun-
ties in the latter. while the dry counties
number 166. The figures are a very
creditab1e showing for prohibition in
Texas.