Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1914-07-17

PIE drink and there are drunkards
III the state, though precious few of
'hem' Liquor isl shipped into the
state by those who desire to use it,
ana some old-fashioned women put
brandy in their mince pies and
sherry in their sauces"
Recently the governor of the
state who is not third-party pro-
hlbltionist, and who received the
vote OF the liberal element in the
i've moist counties of the state, sent
an Official query to the county clerks
Oh Kansas, who under the Federal
Ia" are required to keep a record of
the shipments of liquor into Kansas.
Inc query demanded to know how
ihuch liquor was being shipped into
Kansas for all purposes. The
answers received indicate that Kan
Sas consumes per capital per annum
Sl'2o worth of liquor for all pur-
poses, as against the average Amer
lean consumption of liquor of $2l
d mead. And among the counties in
Guided in the governors QUESTIONABLE
were the five humid counties men
toned above. Ii they had been ex-
Guided probably the Kansas average
would have gone under 81. This is
reducing the consumption of liquor
to negligible minimum. Kansas
has quit and has quit good and
hard"
There is not a great difference in
population between Cook county,
illinois, and the state of Kansas; yet
there are more Chicago insane in the
COOK county ansylum than the in
sane, the criminals, the boys and
girls at the reformatory, the feeble
minded, and the prisoners in Kansas
Jails and penitentiarIes.
Here Is another curious and il
Eliminating fact: Kansas has fewer
murders, fewer homicides and ever
accidental deaths than any other
state, and this is one OF the lowest
rates in the world-45 for each
hundred thousand annually.
The effect of the saloon, with it's
commercialization of drinking, on
murders, suicides and accidents is
too obvious to need elaboration; but
1t is interesting to note that when
the saloon goes these causes of death
are reduced. The vital statistics of
| the various states show that Kan
sas has fewer deaths from kidney
diseases than any other state, and
the relation of whisky to kidney
trouble is so we'll known that this
fact alone proves a low per capita
consumption of liquor. Remember
there are los counties in Kansas
FOrty-eight of these counties did not
send prisoner to the penitentiary
last year and 81 counties did not
send an insane patient to the asy-
| lums. In IA counties no jury has
been called in 10 years to try a
criminal case. Fifty-three counties
have empty jails. Thirty-eight
counties have empty poor houses
and the second lowest death rate in
America is the Kansas death rate of
seven and half thousand.
Moreover, the bank deposits in
! Kansas have increased in ten years
/ from one hundred million to two
| hundred and twenty million dollars.
| And it should be remembered that
these bank deposits are in the hands
of the many and not of the few; for
the financial-agency reports-Dun' S
and Bradstreet 's-list less than a
score of millionaires in Kansas and
not one over five millions. The av-
erage holding of taxable property,
taking the number of people in the
state and dividing it by the total as
sessed valuation of the state, is 81 -
666.92, which the Wall Street Jour
nal recently declared to be the larg-
est in America. Also, a report from
Director Harris, of the Census Blu
reau, shows that we have decreased
our state debt faster than any other
state.
The parallel between the sober
man and the sober state is startling.
Here we have a small insane area;
low criminal area; a small area of
shiftlessness. And we have thrift
and good health highly accented, far
above normal, and such a social body
as one should expect from a state
that lived a normal, wholesome life.
Now as to the mind: Kansas is
among the first six OF the states with
low percentage of illiteracy. In a
population of a million and three
quarters, or Whereabouts, we have
over eight thousand students in our
state educational institutions of
higher learning above high school
grade, and in these higher educa-
tional institutions and other colleges