Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-07-14
ARGUMENT FOR
PROHIBITION
Official Argument in Favor
Of State Wide. Prohibition
Filed With Secretary
OTHERS WILL FOLLOW
Prohibition and Ants Have
Filed Arguments for and
Against the Measure

The Herald today prints for the
first time the official argument which
has been filed with the secretary of
state in Olympia upholding the pro.
hibition petition which will be SUBJ
mited to the voters this fall
No other paper in the county has
printed these arguments. The state
law provides that arguments may be
submitted by both sides and that the
state shall forward copy of these to
every voter in order that he may
intelligently cast his ballot on the
proposition.
The argument of the Anti-Salool
League is the only one submitted b.
the temperance people, 1t is printed
herewith in full, and the two replies
filed by the Brewers association and
the State Hop Growers association,
both of which oppose the measure, will
he published in later issues.
The Herald during the coming cam
paign will print the news of both sides
freely and without favor. 1t will fol-
low it's usual policy of giving it's read
ers all the news, honestly and accu-
rately, and without prejudice.
The Argument
"The best argument for or against
statewide prohibition is the expert
ence of a state that has tested it out.
The statistics and statements of facts
herein shown can easily be verified by
addressing Gov. George H. Hodges. To.
peka, Kas., and enclosing postage. Kan
sas has had prohibition for 30 years
and under it, in spite of agricultural
disaster. SO frequent in earlier years
as to give 1t the name of Bleeding
Kansas" has become the richest state
per capita in the Union. Assessed val
uation is $3.50 per capita. Assessed
valuation of Missouri, a license state
adjoining Kansas is less than $500 per
capita. Kanasa has bank deposits Of
$120 per capita, Missouri $50 per cap.
ita. Kansas, under prohibition, spends
s1.4S per capita for liquor; Missouri
under license spends $24 per capita.
Every man, woman and child in Kan
sas has just $22.52 more to spend for
food, clothing, education and enter
tainment than the Missourian. In Kan
sas one farmer in five owns an auto;
in Missouri, one in hundred. In
Missouri common labor receives So per
week; in Kansas s14 per week. Why?
In Missouri there are 1000 saloons,
into which the people pay 100000
Fer year. In Kansas there are no
saloons. Kansas creates wealth faster
than any other state in the Union. The
state tax rate is $1.04 on $1,000. In
Washington the state tax is sSO6 on
$1,000. Kansas has 105 counties.
Eighty-seven have no insane, 96 have
no inebriates, 81 have no feeble-mind
ed, SO no prisoners in jails, 63 no pris
oners in the penitentiary. Kansas has
practically no paupers and as conse-
Quence the poor farms in 40 counties
have been turned into experimental
stations under the control of the State
Agricultural college and are called
prosperity farms. Kansas death rate
is seven in 1000; Missouri II.
"The North American (Philadelphia)
says: Something is the matter with
Kansas 1t is found in the clause of
her constitution which reads: The
manufacture and sale Of intoxicating
liquor shall be forever prohibited in
this state 1t is this defiance of what
other states have legalized as 'neces-
sary' evil that has helped to make her
citizens the richest per capita in the
country and the richest Of any agri-
cultural folk in the world, that has
given her a permanent school fund Of
SIC, ,000,0 900 and has reduced her litter
acy to an almost negligible quantity.
1t is this insistence upon what slaves
of custom always have sneered at as
Impractical that has given her bal
ance Of more than million and
quarter in her stae treasury and no
bonded debt, save $4,000 held by the
permanent school fund. This alone
that makes possible the statement that
9S per cent Of her 100000 school chill.
dren never have seen a saloon. Yes,
something's the matter with Kansas!
OF what 1t is there can be no doubt
in the mind Of any unpredujiced OBJ
server. And in view OF the effect in
the Sunflower state there is little won
der that an increasing number Of per-
sons believe that this nation will be
past the most DANGEROUS rocks In its
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