Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-09-12
WHAT PROHIBITION HAS
DONE FOR KANSAS
And What 1t Will Do
for Tennessee
Prohibition and Education.

| 10000 worth of school buildings and
public endowment funds of $4,000, DOC
more. know about this because it is
part of my public duties to keep these
funds invested. The growth and extent
of the private and denominational schools
is correspOndingly large. With over zoe
newspapers and magazines i'll Kansas
less than a dozen carry any whiskey ad-
vertising whatsoever. Illiteracy has been
reduced from 40 per cent to less than 2
per cent and that trihing amount is al
most entirely among the foreign element
in our mining regions of the southeast.
Prohibition and Delinquents.
With 1O5 counties in the state 81 of
them have no insane, 81 have no feeble
minded 90 have no inebriates and the
few we do have come from the cities
which deied the law to the very last.
Thirty-eight county poor farms have no
inmates. Only one pauper to every 5000
population. In July, 1911, SO county
jails were empty; 65 counties had no
prisoners serving sentence. Some coun-
ties have not called jury to try a crtin-
inal case in ten years, and grand jury
is so uncommon that half of our people
wouldn't know what it is. In my home
county in Western Kansas there has
never been but one grand jury in its his
tory, and that was twenty-five years
ago.
Prohibition Makes Kansas the Richest
State in the Union.
In 1880 the bank savings deposits were
$3O,000,0G0. Today they are $2OO,OO0,-
600.
In 1880 when prohibition was adopted,
and prior thereto, Kansas was an exceed
ingly poor state. During some of those
years collections were taken up in the
east to keep some of the people from
thirty years, and during that thirty
years it has become the richest state in
the Union per capita. In this state the
assessed valuation of property for taxa
ton is sufficient to give every man, wom-
an and child in the state $1,000. The av-
erage wealth in the nation is only $1,000,
and in Missouri, whiskey state, along
side of Kansas, their assessed valuation
is less than $500 per capita as against
$1,700 in our state. Is it not fair to
say that thirty years of prohibition had
something to do with this?
Again, prior to 1880 the death rate in
Michigan and Wisconsin, Iowa and Kan
sas was practically the same, viz: seven
teen to the thousand. After thirty years
of prohibition in Kansas our death rate
has dropped to seven and one-half, while
that of the other states has slightly in
creased. Is it not fair to say that thirty
years of prohibition had something to do
with this?
Prohibition Produces the Best Soldiers in
the Country.
In Cuba and the invasion of Santiago
by the American army, when the final
charge was ordered, Colonel Roosevelt
placed the Kansas boys in the front, on
the ground that they were physically
stronger and more athletic than the other
soldiers. Don't you think prohibition in
Then over in the Philippines, in the long
marches, for the capture of Agunaldo,
the accounts showed that no other troops
could endure forced marches and fa-
tiguing trips over swamps and mountains
ike the Kansas boys, and company after
company dropped out until only the
Twentieth Kansas was left. This was
the reason that the Twentieth Kansas
boys had the honor of capturing Aguin-
aldo. Don't you think that thirty years
of prohibition in Kansas did have some
thing to do with producing the young
manhood physically capable of enduring
more than could the young manhood of
the whskey states?
The statistics at Washington show the
of intoxicating liquors in
Kansas to be $1.4S per capita, in Mis-
souri, 1874.
| am inclined to think that prohibition
had something to do in producing a sit
uaton where in 1907 Kansas sent $780,
100000 to New York City to stay the
panic, while Missouri did not send a dol
lar.
During the last twenty years Kansas
has increased in population more than
any of the surrounding states. In fact,
Iowa and Missouri have decreased, if we
except and eliminate the growth in st.
Louis and Kansas City, No.
Kansas has fewer commitments to the
penitentiary and iaiIs and penal institu
tions of its state per 100000 people than
any other state in the Union except
North Dakota and North Carolina. This
is from the advance sheets of the Census
Has Driven the Sa-
looms Out of Politics.
Prohibition has taken politics out of
the saloons, and has driven the saloon
out of politics. 1t has made our poor
houses liability instead of an asset. 1t
has sbolishedellteracy It has made us
the wealthiest of states per capita 1t
has demonstrated that the saloon is not
A business, but that it is a parasite on
business. 1t has demonstrated that while
the saloon at night time, with its bright
lights, its nude and lewd pictures, with
It's men going in and out, may look like
business, when the inventory is taken at
he end OF the year, it is not business.
It is a gold brick Prohibition has dem
Dnstrated that revenue from crime and