The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-07-02
PROHIBITION A GREAT SUCCESS.
Proven by Splenpid Results at EN-
poria, Kansas.

PROVEN ny Splenpld Results at EN-.
poria, Kansas.
The following facts clipped from
Golfers Weekly strongly prove the
value of prohibition and should greatly
encourage the people of Garrett county
to vote for local option.
''Emporia is town of 10000 people.
There hasn't been an open saloon in the
place in more than twenty years. 1t is
town of schools and churches, and the
sentiment against Barleycorn always
has been so strong that even in the
free and-easy days before the advent
of Stubs it never occurred to anybody
to open a grog parlor. No booze is
sold in Emporia, and even the cork
screw has become obsolete. If a man
appears on the main street with a bad
breath, it is safe to assume that he Is
a stranger and that he will be run in be-
fore he is an hour older. Bootleggers
now and then attempt to establish an
infant industry, but they're always
rounded up before they have sold
enouQ h to pay the freight on their ship
ment from Kansas City. No town in
the world wears a tighter lid than
Emporia. And Emporia should be a
bankrupt community if there were
truth in the old argument that saloons
are necessary to business. 1t is a
faYorite claim of the saloon men that
they support the schools, their license
money usually going to the school fund.
The answer to this is that Emporia
has just built a high school costing
$135, 000-which is going some for a
town of 10000 people.
And all the grade schools are housed
in handsome buildings, and the best
teachers obtainable are hired, and none
of them ever has to sue for his wages.
Old John Barleycorn says that taxes
would be increased immensely if the
saloons were abolished, but the taxes
in Emporia are not so high as, for ex-
ample, in some Nebraska towns of
equal size which are blessed with
saloons.
Emporia has more than twenty miles
of beautifully paved streets, and every
year she paves few more miles; and
when she has paving bonds for sale
they are snapped up by home citizens.
Several Nebraska towns could be
named which gifted with saloons, have
not onefourth as much paving.
There are no abjectly poor people in
Emporia, because none of the money of
wage earners goes for booze.
The savings banks and building and
loan associations do a big business for
the same reason.
Comfortable homes are being built all
the year round by men who work for
small wages.
Their money goes for lumber and
furniture instead of long, cold bottles
The churches are well attended because
men wake up on Sunday mornings with
out that dark green taste which makes
the idea of devotions abhorrent.
Emporia celebrates the Fourth ofJuly,
Grounding Day and other national holi-
days and the police have nothing to do.
There is no drunkenness. because there
is nothing to drink sitter than pink
lemonade.
You will see a unicorn as soon as you
will see drunken man on the streets
of the town.
And Emporia has reared a generation
of young men who don't know what
alcohol tastes like, who have never seen
the inside of saloon. Many of them
never saw the outside of one. They
are the towns best advertisement.
They go forth into the world to seek
their fortunes without the handicap OF
an acquired thirst and nearly always
distinguish themselves.
All her future generations of young
men will be similarly clean, for the
town knows that a tight lid is the great
est possible blessing and nobody will
ever dare attempt to PRIV it loose.