The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-14

population between Cook county,
Illinois. and the State of Kansas: yet
there are more Chicago insane in the
Cook county asylum than the insane,
the criminals. the boys and Eirl~ at
the reformatory, the feeble minded.
aud the prisoners in Kansas jaiis and
penitentiartes"
Moreover, we have s9,s6s students
in high schools and the increase has
moro than exceeded the growth in
population during the last five years
Thus. We find that the State having
the largest number of students in COL
leges, according to population, having
the largest assessed valuation, having
next TO the lowest death rate, and
having the smallest State debt In pro-
portion to Its population, is the State
in which the smallest average ex-
pendture Is made for liquor We have
saved about twenty dollars a head
from our liquor bill TO spend for
things worth while
Poor. bleeding Kansas" sighed Mr..
Caheli
The average holding Of taxable
property per capita" says william
Allen White. lis s1.s6ss2. which the
Wall Street Journal recently declared
TO he the largest in America -
Poor, bleeding Kansas" indeed. Is
II not rather to say, "Discredited Mr..
House, Poor. Careless. Mr.. Cahnll"
| What value is TO he put upon any
statements OF speaker shown to he
as careless as Mr.. Cahen concerning
! Kansas?
/ f5) Careless Criticisms of President
wilson
Mr.. Cabell declares President Will
son. "at whose feet had the honor OF
sitting. when "a student at Princeton,
has put on record his opinion which
~. tsl Sx .sAL h
expresses vigorous opposition TO
Statewide prohibition as violating
! fundamental principles OF local self.
/ government"
! We may be pardoned If we prefer to
I take President Wilson'S own statement
/ concerning this matter rather than
! the ideas which Mr.. Cabell thinks he
gathered while sitting at the presi-
/ dents feet while a student at Prince
/ ton. The following letter dated July
i 5, 1911. some years after Mr.. Cabell
sat at Mr.. Wilson's feet at Princeton.
| directly contradicts Mr. CabelIs as.
sertion concerning President Wilson'S
/ position. This letter has been pub
! iished number of times, and there
/ is really no excuse for Mr.. Cabell's
carelessness In his misrepresentation
/ of President Wilson. And yet al.
though this letter OF President VIII
son was published in Richmond
i newspaper some weeks ago Mr.. Cabell
has never apologized for misrepre-
senting President Wilson. but allows
! this misrepresentation to be pub
/ lished in his speech and scattered
broadcast through the State One
might almost think that Mr., Cabell Is
/ DESTROYS Of damaging President Will
son with the temperance. people Of
Virginia by thus misrepresenting the
| Pregident's pOSitiOn
/ State of New Jersey
- Executive Department.
July s. 1911.
| NY Dear Mr.. Grogran:
You mistook me if you thought that
/ was treating your first letter as
! communication from a politician or X
! you supposed that I was trying in any
/ way to avoid the important question
/ you put to me. The reply | made was
made in all sincerity / believe that
for some States Statewide prohibition
Is possible and desirable. because Of
their relative homogeneity, while for
others | think that Statewide prohibit
ton is not practicable. I have no rea-
son to doubt from what I know Of the
i circumstances that Statewide prohibit
I ton is both practicable and desirable
In Texas. In my reply to YOU l was