Arizona republican., 1914-10-24
KANSAS IS RICH

What has thirty years of prohibition done for us in Kansas? In bookmaking something. The geography of years ago pictured Kansas as the Great American desert Hardly a desert now with thirty four million acres in cluti- vation. Very little indulgence in Kans- as, with an average of $132 co on de- posit in our banks for every person in the state.
 We have S3,000, 900, ,000GO worth of property on the tax roll, assessed on not to exceed 70 per cent of the actual cash value of our resources This on- ly makes our citizens pay taxes on s176500 each, little over s100.00 more than they paid on q year ago, even though this was the worst drouth sea son in our history.
 We only own one automobile for ev cry fortyfive persons in Kansas, but We hope to do a little better next year. for our farmers are now standing around waiting for the mayor and the county commissioners to sign munich pal improvement bonds, and bonds s- sued for the building of permanent highways that they are endeavoring to buy at about 10 per cent above par.
 great many of our farmers are complaining because they can't pay off their mortgage until it becomes due, though they have decreased their re- corded indebtedness from 55 per cent to 45 per cent in the past ten years. At the same time they have boosted the home owned securities from $13,000, 0000O to S67,0O0.0 .00O.00. The men who own six million head of live stock think none the less of their carriage teams and saddle horses because they now own 35,000 automobiles.
 The death rate in Kansas is only ten to every 1000 inhabitants, and We feel assured the abstinance from liquor gives that low rate of mortality; while the same abstinence contributes to about 5000 healthy newly-horn Kans- ans every twelve months Every year our state creates a new wealth: last year a wealth of S2,000, ,O0000 a day was the record. Only $125 was spent on an average by each person for intoxi- eating liquors during the year, while one of our sister states spends s2S.00 for the same purpose.
 We have an enactment that requires the deliverers of liquor into Kansas to record the shipment and amount with our county clerk. and the statement I make is authentic and based upon the compilations of these reports. This difference of $26.75 went into new homes, schools and churches
 We spent s13, 3,500.00O.0O last year on 415, 900 scholars; that kept 15,000 teach CTS busy for about nine months. The salaries of the men teachers in our public schools have increased from s44OO to sS050 month in the past | ten years. while the salary of the wo- | men teachers has doubled. All of the weak school districts have state aid and we have no schools which have | less than a seven months term. l We have an endowment fund for the common schools of $9,25O,0000O With population of 1.690,000 we had an enrolment of 9,60O students in our state universities, and 7500 in our de- nominational schools.
 Six thousand students attended our state university and agricultural col lege last year. This is a remarkable showing when compared with Missouri
 which has 3.500.O0O population and only 3317 students in her university and az
 ricultural college Indiana, with ahou the same population has 1861 student.
 in her combined schools