Holbrook argus., 1913-02-04
KANSASDRY B YEARS WANTS
 HOME FOR DRUNKARDS
Petitions Legislature to Found Institution For Treatment and Care of Victims Who Have
 Pared Badly in Prohibition State.

TOPEKA, Jan 2O-Atkinscn of Wyandotte will intro duce bill into the house providing for the establishment by the state of farm for treatment of habitua drunk ards and drug fends The will ask that tract of 160 be purchased for the farm Treatment for period not than two years to be given any pa tent
 Persons are to be sent farm by the probate court
 In letter from prominent merchant of Oklahoma City, January twentieth, quote:
 Formerly received income of $110OO per month from rented property. Now it amounts to $58 CO., and it IS hard matter to rent houses at any price and get the rent Then insurance taxes and repairs high and busi not good The merchants who paying expenses think they doing we'll
 This is from Oklahoma City. which was very substan- tal city before prohibition Now they all but busted All business activities has been killed
 Kansas has had prohibition thirty years and yet here bill to have state farm for drunkards You bet prohibition makes drunkards from the knk of whs key, but it also makes high taxes nd lot of cheap oints Prohibition bad whiskey scd badly no revenue regulation but demorazed business because has the business of good hands and put in very undesre able and interruptions hands.
 The above letter just received commenting the action of Kansas and describing conditions Oklahoma city another supposedly dry townis but of the hundreds of instances in which practical the faacy pro hbition laws the liquor traffic To these facts the fanatics who would perscribe what other shall drink hold deaf ear.
 That practically every town county and state in which the Prohbtonsts have succeeded in writing prohbitive laws have demonstrated that prohibition results in high taxes general business sagnaton and continuance of the of liquor under demorazng conditions without yield ing to the public service matters little to them They view disastrous results with copaceney and caoe themselves into believing that they engaged in meritorious cause.
 With minds closed to conviction and nsensble to the fu
 ty of their theory becoming practicable they plunge in the deusion that somehow, sometime they may be able to change the inherent qualities of man.
 Ineed scarcely be said that all liquor laws thus far placed the statue books have failed to fulfill their intent To away saoon to close up beer garden to make the drug store supply of ntoxcans mpossbty would in the temptation; for the main force of temptation is WITHIN the and not without To speak of intoxicating drinks and substituting temperance drinks is forget that there No SUCH THING TEMPER drink. The virtue of temperance does not and not lie in the drink it lies in the individual And granting that in the man, it matters whether he drinks ntoXcants soda water for always drinking temporarily he cannot become incorporate Laws that from the spirit of Prohibition do not make better They make weaker They do not make patriots they make them hypocrtes Men under such laws exercise freedom of w lose their of responsibility; become longer independant, responsible, self controlling and without such men what have we?