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

the adjoining States of Missouri II
is difficult to understand how even
so careless man as Mr. Cabell seems
TO be could have selected Pennsyl-
vania for his comparison by accident
In Missouri one farmer In 100 owns
his auto; in Kansas one farmer In
five owns his auto.
Mr. Cahel quotes apparently with
his approval the statement or the
above mentioned Mr. House that
There is more drinking in kansas
than ever before Under the seats
of all the automobiles in Kansas
there is good sized canteen,
This quotation from Mr., House, as
read by Mr.. Cabeil. called for "ap-
planse" from the members OF the
Local Government league How
delighted they were to learn that
there was more drinking In Kansas
than ever and that every automobile
carried a good sized canteen under Its
seat
Now II may he true that canteen
will he found under automobile seats
but what is in the canteen? There
Is no point in the quotation unless this
recent discovered authority, MIR
House, means that all the auto
Intoxicating liquors But this declar'
alton is SO utterly absurd that even
Mr. Cabell. with all his carelessness
should have been ashamed to read
II to his apparently ignorant ana t@ed-
ulous audience. Mr. Cahell Knows
that everybody else knows that here
are thousands of people in Kansas
who own automobiles who are OPP
posed to the use of intoxicatins
liquors and as a trained lawyer he
should have been ashamed TO put a
witness on the stand to prove that
there Is More drinking In Kansas
than ever before" printed as sub
head, in large black type, In
Mr. CabelTs speechl. when his
witness discredted himself by a
statement at the close that every
exaggerated form of hyperbole, II. in
deed it is not q deliberate SANDER
upon the people of Kansas.
Now what are the facts as to the
! liquor drinking of Kansas: not tbs
/ Munchausen tales of men like Mr.
House. whose statements seem TO be
quoted at face value by the careless
Mr.. Caben@ Every man who has IN
vestigated knows that official records
II kept of all liquor shipments into
Kansas amount to the value of 81 Sc
per capita while the average con
sumption of intoxicants for the whole
United States is a little over SIS pei
capita. That is to say, that while
the annual yearly drink bill OF the
nation is about $1,000. 100000 fol
about 100000 persons. its ex
penditure In Kansas is about $4,000,
900 for 100000 of people: that Is
the rest of the country spends at !eas
twelve times as much as Kansas fol
intoxicants, and the neighboring State
of Missouri spends sixteen times a!
much.
The above are official figures. no
the wild. reckless misrepresentation
of Mr. Cabell's choice witness,
| In agreement with the above are
the statements in the article by VIII
/ liam Allen White in recent issue o.
the Saturday Evening Post, entitled
How Kansas Boarded the Water
/ Wagon" | hasten to assure Mr.
Cabell that Mr.. White was not EN-
ployed by the Anti Saloon league u
write this article to disprove TN
ridiculous statements of his newly
discovered witness, Mr.. House; no
did the league form a conspiracy Will
the Saturday Evening Post TO prin
1.-THE article Just as this time.
AS over against the quotations from
Mr.. Cabelrs new-found treasure, Mr.
House, I give two quotations from tn
article of Mr.. White.
IF my boy, aged fourteen. has eve
seen a drunken man it was outside o
Kansas He is as familiar Will
epilepsy or pellagra or elephantiasi
as he is with the actual effects of tn
saloon on the social system; yet. be
cause the i'll effects of alcohol on tn
human body are taught in the schools
he can rattle off rigmarole abou
what whiskey would do for mai
that would turn to stone through ter
ror the old horrible example of tn
seventies. This boy is afraid o
lwhiskey. So are all the children 0
kansas"
There Ia not a great difference y