The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-08-07
What prohlbItIon Has Done.


Evening Post tells Of the benefits and the
high degree of prosperity which have
come to Kansas since that state has the
quality of Prohibition that prohibits.
His facts. interestingly told; carry con-
viction, aud the following extracts will.
be found Wholesome reading. Here III
Cecil, after twelve years of uninterrupted
prohibition, we can bear testimony to its
benefits, and the temperance forces are
planning for the campaign this fall,
when the question of license or no.
license will again be voted on, deternin-
ed that the majority for prohibition shall,
beYarger than ever before.
.Ir 100 of the IDS counties, Kauaas is.
as dry as bone. The life of the boot.
logger is Of few days and full of trouble
He is as negligible as the chicken thief
or the man who FORCES S.. 90 check and
has about the same status as protes.
sional criminal. He has no standing in
the profession. No organization works
for his release. No lawyer unasked.
comes to plead his case. The path 10 the
jail and rock pile is CREASED. Arrest
means conviction.
"Ifl three counties there are sporadic
commissions OF the rum fieud that seem
70 indicate vitality, but it is only alco.
holic reaction in the dead muscles. These
we're the last counties to surrender their
inalienable rightto whisky. In the small
mining towns in the two counties OF
Crawford and Cherokee some liquor Is
sold, but In the larger towns even these
counties enforce the law. No vestige Of
property right remains in the Kansas
liquor traffic. The brewery has been a
crumbling ruin for twenty years. The
wholesale liquor house has vanished.
The store owner who rented to the saloon
long since found another tenant. The
financial disease of the saloons with lis
waste and folly and crime has been cured
IN Kansas and the body of the state
knows ito pangs and tortures no more.
kansas consumes per capita per
annum SLIPS worth of liquor for all pur.
poses as against the average American
consumption of liquor of $2T.oo a head.
Kansas has fewer murderers, fewer
homicides. aud fewer accidental deaths
than any other state. and this is one of
the lowest rates In the WORLD S for
each roo, 900 annually.
Remember there are Io5 counties In
Kansas, forty eight of which did not send
prisoner TO the penitentiary last year
and eighty-seven counties did not send
an insane person to the asylum. In
fourteen counties no jury has been called
in ten years to try criminal case.
Fifty-eight counties have empty poor
houses and the second lowest death rate
in America is the Kansas death rate Of
seven and one half thousand.
Moreover the bank deposits In Kan
Ilsas have increased ia ten years from
$Ioo. 900. 600 to $2ao. 900, 900, and it
should be remembered that these bank
deposits are In the hands Of The many
land not Of the few.
Kansas Is among the 6rst six Of the
Estates with low percentage Of iliiteracy.
In population of million and three
quarters, we have over 8, 900 students ID
our state educational Institutions OF high.
Ter learning above high school grade. and
In these higher educational institutions
and other colleges. Kansas has more
students in college according to popula-
ton than any other state in the nation.
Thus, we find the state having the
largest number of students in colleges
according TO population. having the
largest assessed valuation. having neat
to the lowest death rate and having the
smallest stale debt in proportion 10 its
population, is the state in which the
smallest average expenditure is made for
liquor. We have saved about $1,000 a
head from our, liquor bill to spend on
things worth WHILE"