The Winslow mail., 1913-02-01
KANSASDRY 3 YEARS WANTS
Home FOR DRUNKARDS
Petitions Legislature to Found Institution For
Treatment and Care Of Victims Who Have
Fared Badly in Prohibition State

TOPEKA, Jan. 2O.-Atkinson of Wyandotte will intro
duce bill into the house providing for the establishment
by the state of farm for treatment of habtua drunk
ards and drug ends. The measure will ask that tract
of 100 be purchased for the farm Treatment for
period not more than two years to be given any pa
tient.
Persons to be sent to the farm by the probate court
In a letter from prominent merchant of Oklahoma
City January twentieth, quote:
Formerly received an income of $11O 90 per month
from rented property Now it $58 co. and it
is hard matter to rent houses any price and get the
rent Then Insurance. taxes and repairs are high and bust
not good The merchants who are paving exnenses
think they doing WE'LL
This is from Oklahoma City which was very substan-
tia city before prohibition Now they all but busted
All business activities has been killed
Kansas has had prohibition hirty-three years and vet
here is bill to have state farm for drunkards You bet
prohibition makes drunkars from the worst nk of Whis
key butt also makes high taxes and lot of cheap Joints
Prohibition bad whiskey sold badly; no revenue no
regulation but demorazed business because it has taken
the business out of good hands and put very undese
able and unscrupuous hands.
The above letter just received commenting on the ac
action Of Kansas and describing conditions Oklahoma city
another supposedly dry town is but of the hundreds
instances in which practical results show the faacy pro-
hbition laws the liquor traffic To these facts the
fanatics who would perscrbe what other shall drink
hold deaf ear.
That practically every town. county and state in which
the Prohibonists have succeeded in writing prohibve
laws have demonstrated that prohibition results in high
taxes general business stagnaon and continuance of the
use of liquor under demorazng conditions without yield
ing to to the public service matters little them
They view disastrous results with complaceney and caoe
themselves into believing that they are engaged in a
mertorious cause.
With minds closed to conviction and nsensbe to the flu
ty of their theory ever becoming practicable they plunge
on in the deluson that somehow, sometime they may be
able to change the inherent qualities of man.
need scarcely be said that liquor laws thus far placed
the statue books have failed to fulfill their intent To
sweep saloon to close up every beer garden
omake the drug store supply of ntoxicants mpossby
would in no remove the temptation for the main
force of temptation is WITHIN the man and not without
speak of intoxicating drinks and substituting temperance
drinks to forget that there No SUCH THING TEMPER
ANCE drink The virtue of temperance does not and can
not lie in the drink it lies in the Individual And granting
that virtue in the it matters not whether he drinks
intoxicants soda water for always drinking temporarily
he cannot become Incorporate Laws that come from the
spirit of Prohibition do not make better They make
weaker. They do not make patriots they make
them hypocres Men under such laws cease to exercise
freedom of WILL lose their of responsibility; become
no longer ndependant responsible, self controlling men,
and without such what have we?