Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-09-12
Every Political Party in Kansas
Stands for Prohibition.


Prohibition in Kansas has forced the
political parties to make it a part of
every party's policy in the state 1t has
become the business policy of the cities,
SO that keeping the joints and dives and
! brothels out of cities 10 as much the bust
ness policy of the average citizen as the
keeping of the streets clean, water pure,
and the public parks attractive.
Prohibition has put Kansas away out
on the firing line of human progress; or,
maybe | should say that Kansas has
solved for the benefit of the whole world
the greatest civic problem of the ages.
1t has demonstrated that the solution of
the saloon problem is no saloon. This is
perhaps better expressed by the most dis
tinguished daughter of Illinois, Frances
t. Willard, when she said:
kansas is away out on the picket line
of progress, where mortal commonwealth
has never gone before. 1t may be called,
with entire propriety, the state OF First
Things-the pleasant garden plat on
which God tries experiments with hui
manity, to see how large and free we are
capable of growing"
Marvellous Prosperity of Kansas.
am going to assume that you know
of the marvellous prosperity of Kansas.
You must have heard of its wonderful
march in material progress. Uncle sam
is impartial in the compilation of his
statistics, and the net result is that at
various times in the last 20 years Kansas
has ranked first in corn, first in wheat,
first in both wheat and corn both in bush
els and dollars. Sometimes Illinois or Iowa
wrests from her the first place i'll corn,
but in wheat, kaftir, milo maize and al
falfa the Sunflower State is far III the
lead. The Kansas hen, the Kansas hog,
the Kansas horse, the beef steer and his
sister are all in a class by themselves
with these there is none to compare.
Our bank deposits lay all others into the
shade. More of our working people own
their own homes than any other working
people on earth
There are thousands of young men and
women in Kansas, yea, tens OF thousands
of them, married, living in their own
homes with children about their door
steps, who have never seen a saloon.
That our progress and our unequalled
prosperity have been wrought largely by
prohibition no man can deny. 1t is ap-
parent and sef-evident. 1t cannot be
duplicated elsewhere where liquor selling
is permitted Prohibition has developed
side by side with our farms, our shops,
our banks, our factories, our packing
houses, our mines and mills and ware
houses and railroads. 1t is rooted down
to bedrock with our homes, our schools,
and colleges and churches and institu-
tions of charity and correction.
These are in a deficient and partial
degree some of the results of what pro-
hibition has done for Kansas And to
those who think that prohibition is
bad thing, you must admit that prohi-
bition has not prevented this marvellous
development, this universal and uniform
prosperity, this prevalent, widespread
and largest measure of happiness enjoyed
by any like number. of people the wide
world round Prohibition has not pre-
vented or hindered Anything under the
sun which can in any way contribute to
the sum total of human happiAess.
Prohibition as Compared with
High License