The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1912-09-05
HOW PROHIBITION
WORKS INkANSAS.
TESTIMONY OF OFFICIALS
WEALTH INCREASES, CRIME
DECREASES, SAYS GOV
ERNOR STUBBS.
From Saturdays Daily.

ago by Gov. w. r. Stubs of Kansas:
Governor Stubs states that as
candidate for governor he proposed
to close the joints, to wipe out the ill
icit sale of liquor and shows by re-
ports from mayors of cities, police
courts, and police officers, that he has
succeeded. This does not mean
he says, that We have no violations
of the liquor laws, for if there were
no violations such laws would not be
necessary. 1t does mean that the pro-
hibitory law in Kansas is as well en-
forced as other criminal statutes, and
that when men violate it they are ar
rested, convicted and promptly sent
to prison"
He says that while Kansas has had
prohibition in local option form for
% years it has only had statewide
prohibition since 1909. IF the prohi
biton law had not given us better
civilization and higher type of man
hood he says, sit would have been
repealed years ago. If it has increased
drunkenness, crime and perjury, as
the saloon men claim it has done, the
saloon keeper would be supporting it
instead of fighting it, for it would in
crease their revenue
Il assert that drunkenness in Kan
sas has been reduced to such a point
that | have not seen a drunken man
in the city of Topeka, place of So
600 inhabitants, during the last
twelve months; that | have no recol-
lection of having seen a drunken man
in my home city of Lawrence, place
of $4,000, for several years; that in
making campaign throughout the
entire state and delivering public ad-
dresses in 90 counties | do not recall
seeing a drunken man during the
year"
"The records of the state penTten
tiary show that when the prohibitory
law was passed we had 724 convicts
20 years ago and in spite of the
steady increase in population the
number has decreased to 668. The
population has increased nearly a
hundred per cent. At the present
time more than half of our jails are
without prisoner. Last year 40 of
the 105 counties did not send pris-
oner 70 the penitentiary We only
have one convicted prisoner i'm our
jails for every 1000 population" !
II assert that in the 105 counties
of Kansas I do not know of convic-
ton for perjury growing out of the
prohibitory law"
Governor Stubs shows that pri-
vate credit has been restored to high |
tide under prohibition. That under i
the saloon era working men who spent
their wages in the saloons were with |
out credit and that garnishments of
wages were very frequent. "A strik-
ing instance of this" he says, '"is
Kansas City, where previous to the
enforcement of the prohibitory law
there was garnshment court run
ming from morning till night, levying |
upon the wages of the laboring men
of the city. Within 90 days after the
adjustment of the saloons this court |
went out of business and there has
been no need for it since Kansas to-
day stands second among the states
of the union in per capita wealth. |
The census shows that it stands first
in home owning citizens"
Fifty seven of the 105 counties of
the state have no inmates on their
poor farms. Cook county, Illinois,
alone, with all its palatial saloons and
vibrating breweries, has little more
than five times as many paupers as
we have in the entire state of Kansas.
The state of Illinois has 100 per cent
more paupers than has the state of
Kansas"
"In ten years deposits in Kansas
banks have increased from 69,00O,-
10000 to S1S9, 900, 10000. The per
capita increase was from $4,000 to
$113.O0 Since statewide prohibition
went into force our bank deposits
have increased 81 900 100000"
He states that under prohibition
Wichita has advanced in weekly bank
clearings from $1,4OO,OOOOO to 49,
200, 100000, that 1900 new houses
were built in 1909 under prohibition
and that $5,OOO,OOOOO is being ex-
pended in public improvements. The
population has increased from 81 900
to $4,000.
"Kansas is more free from mental
and nervnus diseases tllan any other