Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1912-08-07

sAlTd Of thS snuTafpoPulAs1on is4enToAAeS
In public or prlva te,schools. We have SIS.
900 900 worth of school bullamgs and
public endowment funds Of $4,000, 900
mere. know about this because Il Il
= part Of my public duties TO keep thss,
funds invested. The growth and extent
Of she private and denomlnationalsch
ia corrsspondingly large. With over Toe
newspapers and magazines in Kansas
less than dozen carry any whiskey ad
vsrtising Whatsoever, lllltsracy has bssn
reduced from - per cent TO less than 2
per cant and that trining amount Is IL
most sAtirely among the foreign element
In cur mining regions OF the southeast.
Prohibition and Delinqusnts.
With los counties In the state 81 Of
them have no insane, 81 have ne feeble
minded, 90 have no inebriates and the
few we do have come from the cities
which dsRed the Law TO the very last.
Thirty.sight county poor farms have ne
iamates. Only one pauper to every 1900
population. In July, 1911, SO county
jails we're empty 65 counties had no
prisoners serving sentence. Some eoun'
ties have not called a jury TO try Grim.
inal case In ten years, and q grand Jury
Il 50 uncommon that half Of our people
wouldn't know what IL Is. In my home
county In Western Kansas there has
neyer been but one grand jury in Its his
tory, and that was twenty-five years
age.
Prohibition Makes Kansas the Richest
State In the Union.
In 1880 the bank savings deposits were
ssO,OOO,OOO. Today they are 5000, OoO,'
600.
In 1880 when prohibition was adopted
and prior thereto, Kansas was an exceed
lngly poor state. During some OF those
years collections were taken up in the
east to keep some Of the people from
starving. We have had prohibition for
thirty years, and during that thirty
years IL has become the richest state il
the Union per capita. In this state thC
assessed valuation of property for taxa
tion is sufficient to give every man, won
an and child in the state $500. The av
erage wealth in the nation Is only 81, 200
and in Missouri, a whiskey state, along
side of Kansas, their assessed valuation
Is less than $500 per capita as against
s1,7OO in our state. Is IL not fair h
say that thirty years of prohibition ha'
something TO do with thisl
Again, prisr to 1880 the death rate Il
Michigan and Wisconsin, Iowa and Kan
saa was practically the same, viz: seven
teen 10 the thousand. After thirty year
Of prohibition in Kansas our death rat
has dropped to seven and one-haif, Will
that of the other states has slightly il
creased. Is it not fair to say that thirt
years Of prohibition had something to d
with thai
Prohibition Produces the Best Soldiers i
the Country,
/. In Cuba and the invasion of ssntiag
by the American army, when the fins
charge was ordered, Colonel Roosevelt
placed the Kansas boys in the front, o
the ground that they were PHYSICAL
stSongsr and more athletic than the Oth'
soldiers. Don't you think prohibition
Kansas had something to do with this
Thsn over In the Philippines, in the Ion
marches, for the capture Of Aguinald
the accounts showed that no other troOI
could sudurs forced marches and 4
tiguing trips ever swamps and mountain
lfks the Kansas boys, and company aft
Company dropped out until oAly Il
Twentieth Kansas was left, This vi
the reason that the Twentieth Kansi
bSys had the honor of capturing Agui
aldo. Don't you think that Thirty yea
Of prohibition In Kansas did have som
thing to do with producing the your
manhood physically capable of enduril
more than could the young manhood
the whiskey statess
The statistics at Washington show Il
consumption of intoxicating liquors
Kansas to be sl,As per capita, in Nj
souri $24.
am inclined to think that prohibits
had something to do in producing a $
uation where In 1907 Kansas sent SIS
100000 to NsT York City TO stay t
panic, while Missouri did not send d
lar.
During the last twenty years Kans
has increased in population more tn
any Of the surrounding states In fa
Iowa and Missouri have decreased, if
except and eliminate the growth in
Louis and Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas has fewer commitments to t
penitsntiAry and jalls and penal instit
items Of its state per 100000 people tn
any other state in the Union exec
II North Dakota and North Carolina. IT
ii Ia from the advance sheets Of the Gems
Bulletin.
II Prohibition Has Driven the q
looms Out Of Politics.
Prohibition has taken politics out
che saloons, and has driven tho sale
Ie cut of policies. 1t has made our pc
houses liability instead of an asset.
has abolished hliteYacy. 1t has made
tbs wealthies4 OF states per capita.
a has demonstrated that the saloon Is
a business, but that it Is a parasite
business. 1t has demonstrated that wi
u the saloon At night time, with It's bril-
lights, Its nude asd lewd pictures, W
It's men going in and out, may look
business, when the inventory is taken
this end of the year, it is net a busin'
- It Is a gold brick. Prohibition has d.
onstratsd that revenue from crime