The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-16
Another Kansas Horror.

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industry in the state of Kansas. They
all declare that on account of this in
dustry being practicallylwiped out of
existence that the wholei state isi.going
to the dogs.
Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wichita,
Kansas, Beacon, discusses this calamity
in most unique manner. This is so
rich that we believe our readers are en-
titled to have it in full, so here it is:
The distlllers' association is sending
out a new argument against Prohibl-
ton. 1t says that Prohibition has
ruined the grape industry in Kansas"
1t claims that in the eighties this in
dustry was over two hundred thousand
dollars per year and it is estimated at
less than twenty-five thousand dollars
now.
The grape industry wasn't the only
industry ruined by Prohibition.
There was the mint industry. Pro-
hibItion killed the mint julep, hence
there was no more demand for mint
except in a few homes where they
made mint sauce for spring lamb dress
ing.
Then there was the blow to the egg
industry. Men no longer use eggs for
eggnog since the eggnog departed.
When Prohibition came the hens had
been doing their best in their free way
to keep the egg industry alive and you
could get eggs for eight cents a dozen.
Since Prohibition hit the egg industry
= YOU have to paw two cents apiece for
eggs. Prohibition took the life out of
t the hens. They do not seem to have
r anything to cackle about since the
2 saloon left US.
r A man over in the eastern part of the
f tate used to make roulette wheels H e
y was fine cabinet MAKER and the wheels
\ he turned out for roulette and other
e games of chance were mounted with
t ivory and pearl. Prohibition killed that
g industry also.
S In fact Prohibition has killed about
every industry in Kansas except the
? raising of wheat and corn and alfalfa
Y and fruit and live stock; potatoes and
: peas and cabbage and garden sass"
f chickens and ducks and geese and horses
and mules.
= 1t busted up many of our most prom
, inent gamblers, paralyzed the beer
gardens and absolutely killed the bar
tenders union.
Prohibition has left very little of
Kansas except the growing crops in her
fields, the stock in her stock pens, the
dreary round of work, work, work in
! her factories and stores, and other in
dustries. 1t has left US little to do in
hours of leisure except just to fall in
e love, to get married, to send our child
rem to school, go abroad occasionally,
d join the church when we feel like it,
S run INTO each other with expensive
S automobiles and store our money away
r in dusty bank vaults, instead of giving
S it to cheerful gentlemen with white
= aprons who used to stand in front of
: cut glass bars and say infrequently:
D.; This one is on the house
, Where once the thriving business of
the saloon sent the clamorous odor of
its prosperity out upon the sidewalk
and clear across the street, we find
nothing but shoe stores, clothing stores,
meat markets. grocery stores and other
sordid activities of an unhappy people
e Where once you saw long lines of men
on Saturday night going joyfully into
rooms where the doors swung in, never
= out, where there was sawdust on the
> floor and merry crowd standing around
> the mahogany bar, where they were
Il treating all around and where a man
could get his salary check cashed and
spend it right there on his boon COM
7 panions, and then go enthusiastically
II home and break up the furniture and
{ give his wife black eye; instead of all
those manifestations of care free
II people which characterized the saloon
day we now have nothing but gloom.
II We see men going quietly into butcher
shop and grocery store or department
store to get their weekly salary checks
cashed and then going moodily home
e with shoes for the children and beef
steak for supper and the fxings for a
u heavy Sunday dinner the next day, and
< you know instinctively that there will
e be no hilarity in that home that night
= and nothing to cheer the lives of these
- people except such sober activities as
mother may introduce into the family
X circle.
:. There is nothing in that family to look
: forward to except a comfortable Sun
day dinner and maybe church in the
morning and Sunday school, possibly q
decorous ride around town in their
automobile in the afternoon.
Then Monday they begin the same
round all over again and spend the next
week doing nothing but working anC